The nuclear reactor at Dimona

Workers at Dimona Nuclear Plant Threaten Strike

Employees at the Dimona nuclear reactor announced sanctions and are threatening to escalate them to a full-fledged strike, Channel 2 reported on Monday, January 4. The reactor’s employee union, headed by Oded Dana, decided to stop work at the facility over unilateral steps taken by management against employees. The workers are protesting what they call…

Hadash: Government Approves Racist, Anti-Bedouin Program

Israel’s government on Sunday approved the recommendations of Minister without portfolio Benny Begin to “change the program regulating Bedouin settlements in the Negev”. The reform is aimed at solving definitively the issue of Bedouin ownership claims on Negev lands and according to Hadash it’s a “provocative and racist anti-Bedouin program – the Prawer Plan” September…

Arab-Bedouin and activists participate in a vigil to mark Land Day at the unrecognized village of Wadi el-Naam, March 30, 2012. Arab-Bedouin and activists participate in a vigil to mark Land Day at the unrecognized village of Wadi el-Naam, March 30, 2012. The placard in the foreground reads: "This is our land!"; the sign to the left says: "One voice - No to the Prawer Plan."

Prawer Plan Promotes Racial Discrimination against Bedouin

Human rights organizations Adalah and Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) formally submitted last week their reservations to the government’s legislative proposal to implement the Prawer Plan for Bedouin in the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev (the “Memorandum of Law to Regulate the Bedouin Settlement in the Negev – 2012″). The government established the…