Medical Residents Resign in Protest of 26-hour Shifts

Two hundred medical residents resigned Thursday following the neo-liberal government refusal to allocate previouslyapproved funds that would go towards efforts to shorten shifts. While the government had originally agreed to shorten shifts by April this year, a July announcement said that the change would be pushed off until September 2023, angering the residents, citing “procedural…

May Day Rallies to Be Held in Israel

May Day events commemorating this year’s International Workers’ Solidarity Day will take place this week with a number of rallies, demonstrations and debates across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Nazareth, Acre, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, and other locales. May Day rally in Tel-Aviv on next Friday, April 29, 2022,11:00 a.m., Ben Tzion Avenue.…

Foreign Ministry Workers Likely to Declare Strike

Foreign Ministry workers raised a black flag on the ministry’s flagpole on Sunday morning, to protest their work conditions. Over 100 employees stood outside the ministry building with signs reading slogans like “don’t rely on us,” and “you can’t pay for groceries with patriotism.” Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (Iftach Ophir) in a satirical video released…

Adel Amer was unanimously reelected General Secretary by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) on Saturday, October 6, 2021.

Adel Amer, CPI General Secretary

During last month’s 28th Congress of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI), the delegates unanimously reelected Adel Amer as the party’s General Secretary. Having in 2015 initially succeeded the previous General Secretary Mohammed Nafa’h (1940-2021), the renowned Arab-Palestinian Druze writer from the Galilee, Amer is a well known educator and journalist from Kafr Kassem in…