34 Construction Workers Died in Workplace Accidents Last Year: Hadash Activists to Demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Economy

34 construction workers died in workplace accidents last year; this according to the official answer to the parliamentary query submitted by MK Dov Khenin (Hadash – Joint List) following the alarming rise in work-related accidents in the field of construction. The reply, given to MK Khenin by Yariv Levin, the minister serving as a governmental…

Police arrest an activist during a protest against the privatization of natural gas in Tel Aviv, November 7, 2015.

ACRI Petitions Supreme Court against Imposing Criminal Liability on Protest Organizers

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) petitioned the Supreme Court to order police to stop demanding that applicants who request licenses to conduct protests bear criminal responsibility for any violation by demonstrators. The petition was filed together with four activists who are involved in organizing protests against the gas privatization deal across Israel…