Victory for the workers: Pelephone agrees to union representation

The path to the first collective agreement in Israel’s mobile telephony sector is open. After four months of almost unprecedented opposition, the management of Pelephone on Sunday evening recognized the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) as the union representing the mobile carrier’s workers. Management made the decision after counting the employees’ union application…

Pogrom in Jalud: Settlers attack Palestinian village

Israeli settlers attacked a northern West Bank village on Wednesday evening, leaving several Palestinians wounded, a Palestinian official said to Maan News Ageny. Dozens of settlers entered Jalud village, south of Nablus, and pelted it with rocks, settlement monitoring official Ghassan Daghlas said. Two-year-old Farah Nanseem was hit in the head, and his father and…

Poll: Two-thirds of Israelis support peace with Palestinians

The majority of Israelis would vote in favor of a peace agreement with the Palestinians, if the government brought a plan that offered security guarantees to a referendum, polls published Sunday by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Roughly two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) expressed support for a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, with land…

Airport workers agreed to call off a planned strike

Airport workers agreed to call off a planned strike over wages and working conditions as a long-simmering labor dispute was seemingly resolved on Sunday. The Ben Gurion Airport Authority, the Histadrut Labor Union and the Ben Gurion Airport workers union met Sunday morning and agreed that the airport would take responsibility for regulating the salaries and…

Supreme Court: MK Zoabi can run for Knesset

Special, nine-judge panel renders on Sunday unanimous ruling overturning Central Election Committee’s decision to disqualify Knesset member from the Arab nationalist Balad party from nearing elections. “The court’s decision proves that the attempts to have me disqualified were the result of political and personal persecution against me, against my party and against the Arab public…