To the extent that one can see the protest movement that popped up seemingly out of nowhere in Tel Aviv in the summer of 2011 as the genuine expression of a frustrated and discontented middle class and to the extent that this movement can be seen as the local expression of a broader movement that emerged at about the same time in different parts of the western world, it may be said that this is a protest that has been very late in coming. In fact, it may even have come too late.