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Monthly Issue/March 2020

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Medical teams | IDF soldiers (Photograph: Avshalom Shoshani/Flash90 | Moshe Milner/LAAM)

Coronavirus

"The Sham of Neoliberalism"

Sociologist Prof. Eva Illouz on government responsibility, the free market and COVID-19. "Only the state can stabilize general welfare, the free market is busy doing something else" | "For this crisis to lead to a change, a global social movement needs to be established that is willing to say - enough is enough"

By Omer Cohen 0

Arnon Bar David, Histadrut Chairman (Photograph: Histadrut press office)

Coronavirus

Histadrut Chairman calls out PM for failing to account for the economic side of the COVID-19 crisis. Arnon Bar-David sent a letter warning that Israel’s head-start in infection control likely to disappear if the economy remains neglected | Israel is “the only state in the Western world that refuses to inject money into the economy”, he stated

By Caden Feldman-Gubbay 0

Respiratory ICU (Photograph: Shutterstock)

Coronavirus

Running Out of Air

The shortage of ventilators in Israel is liable to increase the number of victims of COVID-19. According to the Ministry of Health, Israel will soon have a total of 2,864 ventilators | Still, the pace of infection raises concerns that even this will not be enough | Will startup companies be able to close the gap?

By Erez Raviv 0

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health minister Yaakov Litzman hold a press conference about the coronavirus COVID-19, at the Ministry of Health in Jerusalem, on March 4, 2020. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

COVID-19

Almost accidentally, Netanyahu let slip just how much his management of the COVID-19 crisis is informed by Milton Friedman's theories. In a televised interview this week, PM Netanyahu revealed the economic theory guiding him in dealing with the current economic crisis | The concepts he presented are outdated and ridiculously out of tune with current events, and the Israeli public will pay the price | Opinion

By Erez Raviv 0

View from inside El Al hangar (Photograph: Tomer Noiburg / Flash90)

Coronavirus

El Al is firing 1,000 workers and sending 80 percent of its workforce on unpaid leave. These draconian measures are being taken due to huge losses caused by a COVID-19-induced freeze on the airline industry | El Al workers’ union is blaming management for ignoring less harmful alternatives and refusing to negotiate

By Jonathan Kershenbaum 0

Nurses putting on protective gear in Padeh Poriya medical center

Coronavirus

Protecting Nurses

"They are doing holy work:" A new labor contract for nurses battling COVID-19. The contract, signed by the Histadrut union and the Ministry of Finance, guarantees nurses' wages and extends their shifts | Ilana Cohen, chair of the National Nurses' Union: "Nurses today are at the forefront of the pandemic and are working day and night to provide adequate treatment to the Israeli public.”

By Tal Carmon 0

Israelis buy foodshopping for groceries at a supermarket in Jerusalem, on Mar.ch 14, 2020. Photo (Photograph:by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Coronavirus

The People Need Security

Israel's government must promise its citizens that they will not be thrown into poverty because of COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic is capable of ruining the lives of hundreds of thousands of Israelis | It's time to reassure them: No one will be abandoned | Will Israeli leadership follow the example set by other world leaders?

By Tal Kaspin 0

A Safed city worker disinfects public monuments around the city (photo: City of Safed)

Coronavirus

Emergency Market

The Public Sector Collective Agreement: Employees will stay home on paid leave. According to the agreement between the Histadrut and the Ministry of Finance, employees not defined as essential will be on leave for the rest of Passover | Paid leave will be deducted from annual holiday entitlement | The agreement will apply to civil servants, local authorities and other bodies

By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0

Dr. Hiba Abu Ziad | 36 | Yafia | Director of the Infection Prevention Unit at Peda-Poria Hospital (Photograph: Maya Tzaban)

Coronavirus

"Follow the Health Ministry's guidelines. It's the best way to help us now." | The Essentials. Dr. Hiba Abu Ziad | 36 | Yafia | Director of the Infection Prevention Unit at Peda-Poria Hospital | #JobInterview

By Dafna Eisbruch 0

דגימה מאדם החשוד כחולה קורונה נבדקת במעבדה. (צילום: יוסי אלוני/פלאש90)

COVID-19

"We have the capacity to test 3,000 people a day"

Lab workers call on government to increase funding for COVID-19 tests. Esther Admon, chair of the Israel Association of Biochemists, Microbiologists and Laboratory Workers, warns against outsourcing COVID-19 tests and insists that the government could afford to expand the number of daily tests if only it would utilize the existing public workforce

By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0

New immigrants coming from the US. Archive. (Photograph: Sason Tiram)

Coronavirus

Off the Plane, Into Quarantine

Amidst a pandemic, the dream of Zion continues: 50 immigrants from the US arrive in Israel. The COVID-19 pandemic did not bypass their communities of origin, and the Israeli response to the pandemic strengthened their resolve to make aliyah

By David Twersky 0