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Monthly Issue/June 2020

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חוף הים בתל אביב. ״מאות אלפי צעירים יעבדו בקיץ, אלו הזכויות שחשוב לדעת״ (מרים אלסטר / פלאש 90)

Coronavirus

Young workers in Israel are severely hit by the COVID-19 economic crisis. Dropping out of school, going back to live with their parents: workers taking their first steps in their careers have used up all their insurance benefits during lockdown and are now facing a harsh reality

By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0

Teachers protest in Tel Aviv, April 30th 2020 (Photography: Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90).

Coronavirus

Management of the education crisis raises doubts about the government’s ability to deal with an impending second wave.. While the Education Ministry and finance officials were busy making threats and pulling solutions out of a hat, the teachers kept society functioning | Opinion

By David Twersky 0

Firefighters extinguish a fire near Kibbutz Harel in the Jerusalem area, May 23 2019 (Photograph: Jonathan Zindel/Flash90)

“The firefighters fight fire, and the fire commissioner fights the firefighters.”. The firefighters are fighting for their right to unionize despite their status as essential workers: "This is a civilian organization, with the right to strike and organize"

By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0

.Protests against the death of Yosef Salamseצ July 3 2016. Banchi Salamse: “I don’t understand the hypocrisy of white Israeli society.” (Photograph:Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

"They say they support the protests in America, but when we protested, they called us hooligans.”. The Ethiopian community in Israel sees hypocrisy in Israeli support for America’s Black Lives Matter movement | “We fulfilled our ancestors’ legacy and came to Jerusalem. African-Americans were enslaved as if they were animals. But both here and there, white people think that black people are less human"

By Yahel Faraj 0

First time back on the train. (Photographs: Raz Rotm and Shay Nir)

Coronavirus

"It’s definitely concerning in terms of COVID-19, but the same trip took me two and a half hours by car yesterday.". With half-empty cars, stickers reminding passengers to maintain social distancing, and refreshment kiosks shut down, the trains started running this week after a hiatus of three months.

By Shai Nir; Raz Rotem 0

Dr. Dror Dicker, head of the first Israeli clinic for former COVID-19 patients at Hasharon Hospital in Petach Tikva (Dafna Eisbruch)

Coronavirus

Learning as they go: A visit to Israel’s groundbreaking clinic for former COVID-19 patients.. Dr. Dror Dicker from Hasharon Hospital in Petach Tikva continues to monitor and treat patients who have recovered from coronavirus at his clinic with a wide range of health professionals, developing treatment methods in real time | “We need to be available for these patients just as we were while they were sick”

By Dafna Eisbruch 0

Foreign care worker and her patient. Archive. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Coronavirus

"This is Imprisonment"

Foreign workers at assisted living facilities denied freedom of movement; no response from officials. Under the guise of preventing COVID-19, care workers at some assistant living facilities facilities - foreign workers who are subject to specific labor laws - have been forced to relinquish their mandated day off and stay at the facility for the entire week | Health and Labor ministries claim that they have not received complaints, and so far have not opened investigations

By Tal Carmon 0

Taking apart, putting back together. “At least once or twice a week I find bikes or parts of bikes in the trash.” (Photo: Raz Rotem. Graphic: Edea)

Zak’s Bike Project

"Everyone looks and feels better when they’re on a bike, and bikes improves the city for everyone.”. Once a week, Zak Greenwald sets up street stands with tools in the northern Israeli city of Akko and puts together bicycles alongside young people from the city | The bicycles are distributed for free to whoever wants or needs them | He’s not ashamed to gather parts or tools from the trash

By Raz Rotem 0