Junior university staff to go on strike

Junior staff at institutions of higher education will strike on Sunday. As a result, disruptions in student schedules are expected, as students return to universities for the second semester of the academic year. Junior faculty and lecturers from universities across the country will begin an open-ended strike as part of an ongoing dispute with the…

Labor dispute declared in all Israeli airlines

The Histadrut labor federation laid the groundwork Monday for an airlines strike, declaring a labor dispute in all Israeli airlines: El Al, Arkia and Israir less than 24 hours after a port workers’ strike ended. The Histadrut also declared labor disputes at the Israel National Roads Company, Educational Television (Channel 23) and the Petah-Tikva Municipality…

All port workers go on strike

The port workers’ union and the Histadrut Labor Federation announced on Sunday morning that ports in Ashdod, Haifa and Eilat will be going on strike with no set timeframe after negotiations over pension funds failed to yield results. The most important employers’ organization, the Israel’s Manufacturers’ Association, has motioned the National Labor Court to issue…

Palestinian killed in Qalandia checkpoint; Hebron: MK Barakeh injured during a demonstration

Thousands of Palestinians, Israelis and international peace activists, among them Palestinian and Israeli communists, rallied in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, commemorating the anniversary of a deadly shooting in Hebron’s mosque. The protesters demanded the city’s main thoroughfare be reopened after Israeli forces shut it off shortly after extremist settler Baruch…