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The crane operator works in solitude. Sits in a small cabin, hoisted 50-100 meters above the ground, for upwards of 12 hours. (Photograph: Nisim Lalush)
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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Isaac Herzog, Chairperson of the Jewish Agency, in his office in Jerusalem: “My father would always say: ‘Take everything in proportion’” (Photograph: Jonathan Bloom)
”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 0
Israeli writer Eli Amir (Photograph: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
"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 0
A coronavirus patient undergoing treatment in the ICU uses the touchscreen of a robot at 'Ospedale di Circolo' hospital, in Varese, Italy, Wed., April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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 0
Students studying from home via distance learning, Mar. 18, 2020 (Photograph: Yosi Aloni/Flash90
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 0
The commemoration of the Strike of February 1941 in the former Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, Netherlands, on 25 February 2017. (Photograph: Romy Arroyo Fernandez/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
"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 0
anatologist Lynne Halamish: "The vast difference between wars and coronavirus in that during a war we are all together, and in the battle against coronavirus we are all alone” (Photo: George Hodan, Public Domain Pictures.net)
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 0
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