The southern city of Eilat has taken the biggest blow in Israel to its workforce due to the coronavirus crisis, with nearly 70% out of work by the end of March, according to figures released Sunday, April 5 by the Israel National Employment Service. At the beginning of April, unemployed workers in Israel passed the 1,000,000…
Seventy-three Communist and Workers Parties from around the world have issued a joint statement on the global situation created in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Initiated by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the signatory CPs express their support for both medical personnel and those suffering from the disease and denounce the huge shortages…
The head of Israel’s Employment Service said on Friday, March 20, that the number of unemployed in Israel could reach one million if the corona virus pandemic causes layoffs to continue at the current pace. “If it continues at this rate, we will probably reach one million unemployed, a quarter of the workers in the…
Twenty-two Israeli social organizations have written to interim Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Finance, Economy, Labor and Social Affairs Ministers and the Minister of Social Equality in the transition government, demanding the implementation of an economic emergency plan in cooperation with civil society organizations. In the letter they write: “Acts of charity by individuals…
According to Zu Haderech (“This is the Way”), the Hebrew-language weekly published by the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), from October through December 2019, B’Tselem documented more than 10 cases in which occupation soldiers fired live ammunition and rubber-coated bullets at the legs of Palestinians trying to enter Israel for work through gaps in the…
The undersigned Communist and Workers’ Parties, denounce the latest criminal military attack of the US, under Trump’s command, against the territory of a foreign country, specifically the international airport of Iraq, which resulted in scores of dead and wounded, among them officials of Iraq and an Iranian General. This constituted a flagrant violation of international…
Since the beginning of 2019, Israel has shifted its demarcation of the maritime zone open to fishermen in the Gaza Strip 20 times. On nine of these occasions, Israel reduced the fishing zone; in four instances it banned Palestinian fishermen from accessing the sea altogether. On December 24, Israel reversed its decision from five days…
The Israeli NGO Worker’s Hotline (Kav LaOved) has published an English-language booklet containing important information for all agriculture workers in Israel, both local and migrant, as well as for international students of agriculture. The booklet Working Safely in Agriculture covers the main issues agricultural workers should be aware of to stay safe in during their…
A 40-year-old Palestinian construction worker, Mohammed Shihadeh Agrieb, from Tarkumya in the Occupied Palestinian Territories was killed Sunday, August 4, in the city of Hod HaSharon in central Israel. Agrieb’s death brought the total number of fatal workplace accidents since the beginning of 2019 to 51, 29 of them in construction sites. The most recent worksite…
Following reports that Arkia Airlines is planning to lay off 250 out of its 650 employees after the closure of Tel Aviv’s Sde Dov Airport, the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) has declared a labor dispute with the carrier. “Even though the employment security of Arkia’s workers is ensured by a collective agreement…