Victory for the workers: Pelephone agrees to union representation

The path to the first collective agreement in Israel’s mobile telephony sector is open. After four months of almost unprecedented opposition, the management of Pelephone on Sunday evening recognized the Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) as the union representing the mobile carrier’s workers. Management made the decision after counting the employees’ union application…

Pogrom in Jalud: Settlers attack Palestinian village

Israeli settlers attacked a northern West Bank village on Wednesday evening, leaving several Palestinians wounded, a Palestinian official said to Maan News Ageny. Dozens of settlers entered Jalud village, south of Nablus, and pelted it with rocks, settlement monitoring official Ghassan Daghlas said. Two-year-old Farah Nanseem was hit in the head, and his father and…

Poll: Two-thirds of Israelis support peace with Palestinians

The majority of Israelis would vote in favor of a peace agreement with the Palestinians, if the government brought a plan that offered security guarantees to a referendum, polls published Sunday by the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace. Roughly two-thirds of respondents (67 percent) expressed support for a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders, with land…