An international campaign against union busting was launched on Wednesday, February 24, at the Israeli branch of a multinational food delivery company. 10bis (Ten Bis – a play on words in vernacular Hebrew for “Give me a piece”), the Israeli branch of the Just Eat Takeaway.com centered in The Netherlands, is denying its workers the right…
Israel announced on Thursday, February 19, it would allow Palestinian workers in the country to return to their West Bank homes starting today, Sunday, February 21. This constitutes a relaxing of restrictions that have forced tens of thousands of them to spend the night in Israel since the start of its third nationwide lockdown on December 27, in…
The total number of unemployed workers in Israel has risen to around 800,000, according to figures issued by the Central Bureau of Statistics and the Employment Service on Monday, February 15. This is a significant increase of more than 40% compared to the figure of 565,000 unemployed in Israel issued on in January 4. The large…
A Palestinian worker died early Sunday morning, January 24, of a heart attack resulting from the inhalation of toxic teargas fired at him by Israeli occupation soldiers. Fo’ad Sebti Joudeh, 48, the father of four children the eldest of whom is ten years old, died near the village of Far’oun, south of the city of Tulkarm…
Hadash and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) activists held protests in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Nazareth, as well as at the Yuvalim Junction near Sakhnin, on Friday, January 22, over the job-related deaths of 67 workers during 2020, among them 35 construction workers. The protests took place under the banners “Tycoons and building contractors live in…
The Electoral Council of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash – Jabha) elected last Saturday evening, January 16, the Front’s first five candidates to run for the upcoming general elections for the 24th Knesset scheduled to take place on March 23. Saturday’s national convention was held for first time via Zoom application. In the…
Well-known peace and anti-occupation activist Ezra Nawi, who was active in Palestinian causes and was termed a “public enemy” by the far-right government and settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories, died at the age of 69 on Saturday, January 9, just a few months after he was diagnosed with cancer. Nawi, a plumber by profession,…
![Interns and students of medicine protested, last Monday, December 14, near the home of Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, demanding that the regime of 26-hour shifts for medical interns not be reinstated. The sign held in the foreground at left reads: "26 – This won't end until [the shifts] are shortened." The banner at right reads: "We won't go back to 26." Three of the demonstrators were arrested by police.](http://maki.org.il/en/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-18-220x126.jpg)
Three protesters, medical interns and students, were arrested by police when dozens of them gathered near the home of Health Minister Yuli Edelstein in Herzliya Pituach on Monday night, December 14, to demand changes in their work conditions. The crowd of protestors was forcibly cleared from the scene by police. The protesters chanted “We will not…
A regional teleconference of the Communist and Workers’ Parties of the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Gulf region conducted to express solidarity with the Palestinian people was held last Sunday, November 29, under the auspices of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE). In 1977, the General Assembly of the United Nations called for the…
According to figures released by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Gaza’s unemployment rate increased by 3.5% in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the same quarter last year, and now stands at 48.6%. This is a slight drop of 0.5% compared to the second quarter of 2020, apparently due to the lifting…