In May 1992, teenager Helena Rap was stabbed to death on Bat Yam’s promenade by a Palestinian. Thousands of Bat Yam residents took to the streets in violent protest for five days. They looted, damaged property and attacked anyone who…
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War on Scarecrows: Steinitz at the Treasury
Yuval Steinitz, Israel’s Minister of Finance, takes no rest. We have not yet recovered from his blatant attack on the High Court of Justice (he claims that its “populist” decisions waste public money) and already we hear that he’s gearing…
Empowering the Weaker Workers in Israel, 2009
A discussion on ways to defend and organize groups of workers who are subject to exploitation and discrimination in the Israeli labor market, including Arabs, migrants, women and youth. The following is a synopsis of the talks that were given…
FNV Officials Study Israel’s Labor Market
THREE OFFICIALS from FNV, the largest trade union confederation in the Netherlands, recently met with Arab women at their jobs on an Israeli farm. The jobs had been organized by the Workers Advice Center (WAC), to which the women belong.…
Thailand and the Israeli Labor Market
A Journey through Israel’s Agricultural Sector IN THE LAST WEEK of April 2007, the Workers Advice Center (WAC-Ma’an) hosted a delegation of European and American labor unions, which it had invited to study exclusion and exploitation in Israel’s agricultural sector.…