Hadash MK requests: Don’t discriminate Arab voters

Media and polling organizations in Israel are neglecting the Arab-Palestinians voters, ahead of January’s elections by not including the Arab parties in their polls, according to Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party of Israel). MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) sent a letter of complaint to Elyakim Rubinstein, a Supreme Court judge…

Next Friday: The Human Rights March 2012

Next Friday, 7 December 2012, Hadash and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) activists will march together in the annual Human Rights March – with all the causes, messages, and flags; for equality, peace, democracy, and social justice. The Human Rights March is the annual assembly of thousands of people and more than 130 organizations and…

Hadash support the nurses’ strike

Nurses across Israel have launched a general strike on Monday after negotiations over their employment terms reached an impasse. The healthcare professionals claim that the agreement that they had reached with the Finance Ministry earlier this year has not been upheld. The deal put an end to the previous nurses’ strike in February. Nurses Union…

Report: More working families in Israel falling into poverty

Israel continued to lag behind other capitalist countries in its level of poverty and income gaps, according to the National Insurance Institute’s annual poverty report, published on Thursday. A member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, consisting of the 30-odd richest countries, since 2010, Israel had 442,200 officially poor families in 2011 –…