Social workers block traffic at the Mahanaim Junction in the Upper Galilee on Monday morning, July 13.

Social Workers’ Strike Enters Its Second Week amidst Daily Protests

The nationwide strike of Israel’s social workers entered its second week on Monday, July 13, a day after Shaul Meridor, Director of Budgets within the Finance Ministry, announced that the social workers’ demands to improve their working conditions are “irrelevant.” Meridor is a scion of a privileged right-wing, revisionist Zionism family, politically prominent from before the…