‘Haaretz’ journalists call strike and hundreds of ‘Ma’ariv’ workers marched in Jerusalem

Employees of Haaretz will go on an open-ended strike beginning Wednesday afternoon, the newspaper’s employees committee said Tuesday. “Tomorrow, all of us, employees of all sections of the paper and the online edition, are going on strike,” the announcement said. It added that “no employee will take pictures, no worker will write articles, no one…

Thousands marched in Sakhnin

Several thousand people marched in Sakhnin on Monday to protest the failure of the state to prosecute anyone for the death of 13 Arab-Palestinians. The march was held on the 12th anniversary of the demonstrations that broke out in Arab cities and towns across the north of Israel in October 2000, in the start of…

Thousand Professors Defend BGU Dept. vs. McCarthyist Allegations

Over one thousand faculty members of academic institutions all over Israel last week signed a petition protesting the Israeli Council of Higher Education’s subcommittee’s decision not to allow Ben-Gurion University’s Department of Politics and Government to register students beginning in the 2013-14 academic year. The decision, which still needs approval from the plenum, effectively closes the…

Settlers attack rally against land annexation in the West Bank

Settlers attacked Palestinian demonstrators in the Hebron town of Yatta on Saturday, a local committee official said. Ratib al-Jubour, coordinator of local Hebron committees, told Ma’an Palestinian news agency that settlers threw rocks at Palestinians and international activists who had rallied to protest the confiscation of land in al-Hamra and al-Kharrouba. Israeli forces were deployed…

Journalists on struggle against expected firings

Hundreds of Maariv daily newspaper employees, joined by journalists from the rest of the Israeli media protested (20.9.12) the expected firings of over 1,000 journalists and printing staff. It seems that for years Maariv management did not deposit all the pension deductions they were supposed to, for at least some of the workers, nor funds…

Israeli government want to privatize the courts and denying access to justice

The Knesset Constitution Committee will discuss  today (Tuesday) the Courts Bill (Mandatory Arbitration) in preparation for its second-third readings. According to this proposed bill, the president or deputy of a Magistrate Court could forward civil lawsuits to an arbitration process by a private lawyer without needing permission from the parties to the case. The Association…