A demonstration in the Negev against murder of women

Knesset Rejects Bill to Combat Violence against Women

Despite weeks of extensive public protest over violence against women, the far-right coalition brought down on Wednesday, November 21, an opposition-sponsored bill proposed by Chairwoman of the Knesset’s Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, Hadash MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint List), to combat the phenomenon. The opposition bill proposal was formulated in the…

Unionized Amdocs workers in front of the company premises in Sderot

“Ernst & Young” in Israel Unionizing; Histadrut Petitions Court on Amdocs Unionization Interference

In the past week, employees at Ernst & Young (Israel) – Kost, Forer, Gabbay & Kasierer – Israel’s largest accounting firm, have begun organizing a workers’ committee, while making grave allegations against the firm’s management concerning what they call low pay and poor working conditions. An anonymous e-mail message was sent to most of the firm’s…

Nationwide protests for Moshe Silman

  Solidarity protests were held throughout the country Saturday night in solidarity with the late Moshe Silman who set himself on fire last week during a social justice protest.  Silman succumbed to his wounds on Friday at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer where doctors were treating him for burns over the majority of his…