IMA Doctors to Strike if Gov’t Defunds Added Medical Positions
Physicians organized in the Israel Medical Association (IMA) union are preparing to commence a strike in the coming days if the Finance Ministry does not agree to continue funding the salaries of some 600 doctors and 1,600 nurses who were hired during the COVID-19 crisis. The Finance and Health ministries initially committed to fund the…

![Interns and students of medicine protested, last Monday, December 14, near the home of Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, demanding that the regime of 26-hour shifts for medical interns not be reinstated. The sign held in the foreground at left reads: "26 – This won't end until [the shifts] are shortened." The banner at right reads: "We won't go back to 26." Three of the demonstrators were arrested by police.](https://maki.org.il/en/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-12-18-220x126.jpg)


![Public lab workers demonstrate outside of the Prime Minister's official residence in Jerusalem on the third day of their strike, Tuesday, September 1. The placard reads "4 billion [shekels] to private laboratories on the backs of the public labs."](https://maki.org.il/en/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020-09-04-220x126.jpg)




