Joint List Chairman MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash), former Labor chairwoman MK Shelly Yachimovich and Meretz chairwoman MK Zehava Galon at Peace Now conference in Tel-Aviv, July 24, 2015

MK Odeh: “The Right says ‘Death to Arabs’ but the Zionist Left will Be the Death of Us All”

Joint List chairman MK Ayman Odeh (Hadash) slammed MK Isaac Herzog on Friday, following the Zionist Union leader’s comments earlier this week that Israel’s disengagement from Gaza 10 years ago had been a “mistake, but was demographically justified.” Speaking at Peace Now’s annual conference in Tel Aviv, Odeh called Herzog’s words “a racist statement about…

Thousands of contract workers, Jews and Arabs, protested last Thursday, July 16, at the Habima Square in downtown Tel-Aviv as part of the struggle being waged by labor unions to reduce the number of contract workers being employed by public institutions.

Histadrut Calls Off General Strike after Reaching Agreement on Contract Workers

Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlon and Histadrut (General Federation of Labor in Israel) chairman Avi Nissenkorn have reached understandings that will end the labor dispute over the employment of contract workers. The general strike planned to start on Wednesday has consequently been called off. Kahlon and Nissenkorn began formulating the understandings after discussing the matter…