Social activists against gas export block Tel Aviv road

Hundreds of protesters blocked Tel-Aviv’s Namir Road last Saturday at noon  in protest of the State’s plans to export some of Israel’s natural gas. Hundreds  of social activists marched to Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s home in northern Tel Aviv and then blocked Namir Road, one of Tel Aviv’s main avenues. The protesters are claiming that…

MK Khenin proposes gay anti-discrimination bill

Schools will not be able to discriminate gay pupils if a bill proposed by MK Dov Khenin (Hadash) passes. The Ministerial Committee for Legislation will vote on the bill, which will add to the list of prohibited types of discrimination in the existing Students’ Rights Law the words “sexual preference, identity and gender.” The Israeli…

Hadash against delays pay raise for gov’t employees

MKs voted on Monday a bill who delays raises in government employees’ pay until December 2014 or later, depending on agreements with the Histadrut labor union. The bill, which implements a compromise agreement between Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Histadrut head Ofer Eini, a member of the Labor party. All the workers who members of…

Construction in settlements hits seven-year high

Official Israeli figures show new housing constructions in settlements rose significantly in the first three months of 2013 compared to the same period last year. A report on new housing constructions released by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics showed that housing development in the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank jumped from 313…

McDonald’s workers in Israel demand their rights

Just days after the young workers at Israel’s Burger Ranch fast-food chain organized themselves, the Labor Union for Youth in the Histadrut (Federation of Labor in Israel), announced last week that within less than a day they had succeeded in signing up enough workers at McDonald’s to set up a workers’ union there as well.…