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Crane’s-Eye View
How do you unionize hundreds of people who work by themselves, 100 meters off the ground?
“It’s hard to imagine getting this union going without social media,” says Dan Varshavsky, head of the National Committee of Crane Workers, “especially without WhatsApp.”
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Interview
"People are looking for idealism"
At 83 years of age, famed Iraqi Israeli author Eli Amir, safely tucked away at home, continues to strive for social justice.
"The current leadership wants to preserve its rule" | "The Palestinian problem cannot be swept under the rug" | Amir longs for the modesty of times gone by and believes that Israel has a long way to go: "We’re still laying the foundation" | He is also working on a new novel
By
Gil Plotkin
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Exclusive
”Israel must be a lodestone of social justice”
Chairperson of the Jewish Agency for Israel Isaac Herzog, in a special Independence Day interview..
“We should be very proud of what we have, see the glass half-full and do everything to fill the empty half.”
By
David Twersky and Gil Plotkin
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Coronavirus
The Robots Are Already Here
In a month, not a decade: How the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated changes in the workplace..
Prof. Guy Mundlak, Head of the Department of Labor Studies at Tel Aviv University, describes accelerated trends and draws initial conclusions from the impact of the pandemic on labor: automation and robotics, working from home, guaranteed basic income and the importance of the public sector | Interview
By
Nizzan Zvi Cohen
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Yom HaShoah
"Bring back our Jews!"
How Amsterdam's workers staged the first non-Jewish civil resistance to the Nazi regime.
79 years ago, around 300,000 Dutch workers protested the deportation of hundreds of Jews to concentration camps | The enormous strike was led by a street-sweeper and a sidewalk construction worker | Despite being a truly remarkable event, the strike is virtually unknown outside of Holland
By
Nizzan Zvi Cohen
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Coronavirus
It's Time to Talk About Death
"We might understand that we do not control the world. That's exactly the point.” | Interview.
Lynne Halamish, an expert on dealing with death and loss, on how the constant exposure to sickness and death affects us throughout the pandemic | “There are also benefits, not just a price,” she says
By
Gil Plotkin
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Coronavirus
The Parable of the Teachers
Solidarity, unions and the needs of society – Israel’s teachers of COVID-19: a case study.
The story of the teachers who faced it all and won: taking the classroom online, supporting isolated students and their parents, and through it all, battled Treasury threats and accusations | Eventually, they got the recognition and compensation they deserved
By
Caden Feldman-Gubbay
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