A Cellcom workers demonstration (Photo: Cellcom Workers' Union)

Cellcom management recognizes union

History has been made at Cellcom. The mobile carrier’s management announced on last Monday evening that it recognizes the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) as the union representing the company’s employees, after additional signatures removed all doubt that the employees achieved the majority needed to establish a workers committee.   This was a…

MK Khenin: Why privatization is doomed to failure

There are those who believe that everything that’s privatized is more efficient and everything run by the government necessarily falls short. Haaretz’s Nehemia Shtrasler champions this approach. I believe that this is a myth, but this doesn’t mean that I support the opposite myth, either. I know that government-run systems are liable to be bureaucratic…

A Hadash banner in Hebrew and Arabic: "Equality" (Activestills)

Demonstrators march in Tel Aviv against Prawer Plan

Thousands marched through the streets of Tel Aviv Saturday night in protest of the Prawer Plan. Alongside Tel Aviv residents, demonstrators were bused in from Arab villages and cities in the Galilee and the Negev to gather in Habima Square. Most of the demonstrators were affiliated with Hadash, a few with Meretz and many more…