Histadrut declared civil service labor dispute

The Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) declared on Thursday a labor dispute in the civil service and local authorities tomorrow to protest the foot-dragging by the Ministry of Finance in the negotiations to reduce the number of people employed by personal contracts. Declaration of a labor dispute gives the union the right to…

Extreme right wing MKs wants Dov Khenin on trial

Extreme right wing MK Miri Regev (Likud / Yisrael Beytenu) called Wednesday for criminal charges to be filed against three Knesset Members who exposed the “Prisoner X” affair in the Knesset plenum, thus using their parliamentary immunity to circumvent a gag order imposed by the Chief Military Censor. Regev asked the Attorney General and the…

Jerusalem Municipality plans garbage dump on Palestinian villages

Adalah submitted an objection, in cooperation with the Civic Coalition for Defending the Palestinians’ Rights in Jerusalem (CCDPRJ), on behalf of the ‘Anata Municipality to the Jerusalem District Planning and Building Committee against a plan to construct a landfill in East Jerusalem, on lands belonging to the Palestinian villages of ‘Anata (Population: 20,000) and Al-‘Issawiyya…