The head of the Knesset's Labor, Health and Welfare Committee, MK Aida Touma-Sliman, during the meeting held on Tuesday, March 31

Without Crucial Safety Inspectors, Construction Sites Go Unmonitored

With 70 percent of Labor and Social Services Ministry’s building safety inspectors sent home to isolation, tens of thousands of construction workers, mostly Palestinians from the occupied territories, continue to work at construction sites with no reduction in workload and without a supervisory body ensuring compliance with Health Ministry regulations. Even under normal conditions, Israel…

73 Communist & Workers Parties Demand Immediate Measures to Protect Peoples’ Health and Rights

Seventy-three Communist and Workers Parties from around the world have issued a joint statement on the global situation created in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Initiated by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE), the signatory CPs express their support for both medical personnel and those suffering from the disease and denounce the huge shortages…

Protesters demonstrate outside the home of Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in Herzliya Pituach, Friday, March 20, 2020.

Demonstrators Take to Protesting Outside Homes of Prominent MKs

In efforts to awake Members of the Knesset from their “corona lethargy” manifesting itself by a dearth of public political activity following the increasingly stringent measures against social gatherings, pro-democracy protesters demonstrated outside the homes of Blue & White leader MK Benny Gantz, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein,  Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar and Public Security Minister Gilad…