Hadar Muchtar is angry because Benjamin Netanyahu has won a sixth term as prime minister of Israel and she hasn’t won anything. Her party didn’t get a seat in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and it’s the fault of brainless old people. ‘I think that the citizens are stupid and we’re going to pay for that’, she says. ‘I don’t care about the government. I think they’re all sh*t. They’re horrible people all of them.’
Muchtar founded her party, Tzeirim Boarim, or Youth on Fire, to protest rising prices. She’s a 21-year-old from Kiryat Ono, near Tel Aviv, who became famous on TikTok for posting videos of her comparing the prices of things in Israel and Germany, where she spent a year as a university student. Inflation in Israel is 4.6 per cent, and homes are nearly 20 per cent more expensive than they were last year. On TikTok Muchtar has 130,000 followers, and before the election her party was polling at around 1.5
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