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Naamat campaign (photo: Flash90 and Stick Media, courtesy of Na'amat)
"Connect to your feminine side"
Israeli elections (#3) pose a good opportunity to talk about women's representation in politics. Na'amat, Israel's largest women's association, launched a campaign calling on Israeli politicians to advance gender equality in the political sphere | Breaking the glass ceiling, one work place at a time
By Tal Carmon 0
powerful women
"Unions help us run the city"
Four women are revolutionizing employer-employee relations in one city in Israel. "As women, we're less strict and more open to compromise. Putting women in key positions makes things run much more efficiently," said the chair of the community center workers' union in Or Yehuda
By Shai Nir 0
Hagit Pe'er, head of Na'amat, Israel's largest women's group, at the Histadrut's Labor Market Conference in Eilat. (Photograph: keren Shemesh)
Flexibility and availability
Flexible hours are not sufficient to combat gender inequality at the workplace . Chair of womens' labor movement Na'amat: "Being available 24/7 to your boss is bad both for men and for women" | "Working from home can simply add working hours without helping women reach higher positions" added the chair of the Ministry of Labor's Equal Opportunities Program
By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0
Aerial image of Allied bombing of an industrial zone near Auschwitz-Birkenau on September 13 1944. Bomb shells can be seen in the upper right corner of the image (photo: USAAC; National Archives/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Wikimedia)
The bombs that never fell
The Labor Zionist movement and the bombing of Auschwitz. Jews around the world worked hard to influence allied forces to bomb gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau | Labor Zionists were among the leading forces in that campaign | Tragically, they did not prevail
By Dr. Rafael Medoff 0
(Dockers at Haifa Port. From right to left: Raanan Mizrahi, Yosi Newman, Ben Biderman, Haim Levy, and Nir Ben Moshe (Photograph: Gilad Schrim)
Port solidarity
"Working side by side, trusting each other:" the backbreaking and fulfilling work of the dockers at Haifa Port. 135 dockers at Haifa Port load and unload some 30 million tons of merchandise each year in around-the-clock shifts | "It's challenging, unconventional work," says dockworker Yoni Newman | A day with the workers in this dangerous and physically demanding job
By Shai Nir 0
An Israeli woman searches looks for objects of worth in a garbage container in the center of Jerusalem. February Feb. 16, 2015. (Photograph: by Nati Shohat/Flash90)
Looming pension cuts
Not the way you imagine spending your retirement. Haim Atias, 71 years old: "I would like to enjoy my pension years but I simply can't. I'd rather continue working than starve to death." | Israel has some of the highest rates of poverty among pensioners, and it is about to get worse.
By Jonathan Kershenbaum 0
Michal Hasson
Message from an activist
Michal Hasson, blogger and social activist, is preparing her wheelchair for the roadblocks. Describing her struggle to survive on disability benefits and connecting her personal story to the wider fight for a more inclusive and moral society, Hasson is calling on the public to show their support
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Protest demanding a rise in disability benefits in Tel Aviv, Jan. 30, 2020 (Photograph: Nizzan Tzvi Cohen)
Fighting for their lives
Activists return to the streets to demand a raise in disability benefits. Despite a law unanimously approved in the Knesset, disability benefits have not risen, leaving people with disabilities in Israel no choice but to re-ignite their campaign | Eyal Cohen, an activist, said that the protests "quite simply shortens our lives, but we have no other option."
By Jonathan Kershenbaum 0
Workers' rally in after ECI's union declared a labor dispute. Photograph: Histadrut
Lack of communication
Workers declare a labor dispute over merger between ECI and Ribbon. Union and management have negotiated new terms regarding the merger with Ribbon Communications, but the agreement was not signed | "We are aware of the danger to workers caused by mergers with American companies, and are committed to ensure employment security for our workers."
By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0
Children holding shovels marching to plant trees on Tu B'shvat. Photograph: La'am
Growing roots
Tu B'Shvat: Planting trees, eating dried fruit or paying your taxes? When Hebrew teachers in Israel wanted to help their students reconnect to the land of their forefathers, Tu B'Shvat left the realm of prayers and entered the ground - literally
By Miryam Holtzman 0
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