Negotiations fail as doctors’ storm out of meeting with Treasury; Next week: strike in all hospitals

 Doctors’ union, the Israel Medical Association (IMA), charged on Thursday evening that the Treasury backtracked on agreements it reached on the number of night and weekend shifts that would be required of doctors. “We returned to square one,” it said. On Sunday, doctors’ sanctions will shut down all elective surgery except emergency and oncological surgery.…

AKEL sent a solidarity message to the Communist Party of Israel

AKEL (The Progressive Party of Working People) Central Committee sent from Nicosia, Cyprus, a solidarity message to the Communist Party of Israel to “its struggles for the foundation of a Palestinian state”: “AKEL expresses its full solidarity with the Communist Party of Israel and all the pro-peace forces in Israel to their struggle against the…