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…
The rate of unemployment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) rose in 2018 to about 31% of the participants in the labor force compared to about 28% in 2017. In absolute terms, the number of unemployed individuals increased from 377,000 in 2017 to 426,000 in 2018, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)…
In response to a petition submitted to the High Court of Justice by Kav LaOved – Worker’s Hotline – starting last month any safety order imposed by the government against a construction site, factory or farm deemed unsafe for employees or the general public and for which it was ordered closed must be disseminated in…
Arab and Ethiopian women in Israel earn less than half of the national average salary and are the most disadvantaged groups in the country’s job market, according to a survey of minorities in the labor market released on Monday, February 18. Overall, women’s salaries are 59% of men’s salaries in Israel, the survey found. The…
A school in a West Bank settlement recently fired its Arab cleaning staff, all of them Israeli citizens, after parents threatened to shut down the school if the workers remained employed. Parents in the settlement of Karnei Shomron appealed last week to the head of the local council, Yigal Lahav, and threatened to invoke a…
The National Union of Students announced on Saturday evening, November 10, that starting Monday the 12th students at eight public colleges throughout Israel will launch a strike in support of senior staff at these institutions of higher learning whose own strike entered its fourth week on Sunday. About 30,000 students have not been able to…