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Monthly Issue/August 2021

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10Bis delivery workers riding their bikes in Tel Aviv during the first lockdown. (Photo: Miriam Alster / Flash90)

In Decisive Ruling, 10Bis Ordered to Compensate Employees for Violating Right to Unionize. After a yearlong struggle between the workers and management, the food delivery service was instructed to compensate its employees 80,000 shekels after preventing them from unionizing | Union chair: “This is an important and historic victory to realizing our democratic right to unionize”

By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0

Artem Dolgopyat, seen here with his gold medal, is barred from marrying within the state of Israel because of having only a Jewish father and no Jewish mother. (Photo: Amit Shissel, Israel Olympic Committee)

A Gold Medal, But No Gold Ring. The mother of Olympic gold medalist Artem Dolgopyat speaks out about the laws that prevent her son — along with another 400,000 Israelis — from legally marrying within Israel | Activist Katya Kupchik explores the tension between the ultra-Orthodox monopoly on legal marriage and the perception of Israel as a home for every Jew

By David Tversky 0

From right: Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid, Benny Gantz and Avigdor Lieberman (Photo: Yonatan Sindel / Flash 90)

7 Reforms That Must Be Removed From the Arrangements Bill. The Arrangements Bill, submitted on Sunday for government approval, contains around sixty different reforms across hundreds of pages, including drastic changes in agriculture and the pension system | These reforms require a strategic discussion at least, not a hasty decision by the Treasury

By Tal Kaspin; David Tversky; Erez Raviv 0

Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David and Na׳amat Chairman Hagit Pe׳er. (Photo: Histadrut Spokesperson Kobi Wolf)

Histadrut, Na’amat Demand Support for Women Affected by Raising Retirement Age. The Arrangements Law includes a provision raising the retirement age for women to 65, the same age as men | Arnon Bar-David and Hagit Pe’er call for provision to be accompanied by assistance for low-income women and advancement of gender equality in the workplace

By Tal Carmon 0

Prime Minister Bennett and Finance Minister Lieberman in the Knesset. The approved state budget barely acknowledges the worrying spike in cases. (Photo: Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Government Must Stop Denying Virus’ Resurgence and Start Providing Aid. While new cases balloon, the budget makes almost no mention of COVID-19, there is no provision for furloughed workers, and there are no contingency plans to deal with increases in morbidity | Opinion

By Tal Kaspin 0

Demonstrators at the caregivers protest. (Photo: Nursing Caregivers Union)

Israel’s Caregivers’ Union Reaches First Collective Bargaining Agreement. The agreement includes the addition of seniority pay and compensation for time spent traveling between patients | Union Leader Smadar Ben Ezra Parchi: “Although the journey isn’t over, we feel that we have reached a very important stage.”

By Nizzan Zvi Cohen 0

“You simply don’t see [construction workers] when walking around. We try to address all this in the show, the more ’dirty’ parts of society" (Photo credit: Almog Ganot)

The Dangerous Dance of Israel's Construction Workers. In his new show, choreographer Eirad Ben Gal seeks to raise awareness about the precarious lives of construction workers due to high death and injury rates on building sites | “If workers' lives were worth more than money, they would not be dying”

By Hadas Yom Tov 0