01.27.2024 Natural Partners: The Alliance Between South Africa and Hamas, From the 1990s to Oct. 7 South Africa's petition against Israel in the International Court of Justice follows a decades-long pattern of increasing ties with Hamas and its patron Qatar | Report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) By Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
01.27.2024 New Israeli Budget Demonstrates Knesset-Wide Agreement on Conservative Economics Discourse around the budget shows overall consensus that the war requires immediate cuts to public spending | Most criticism focuses on quibbles over exactly which cuts to make and how deep, with no one left to advocate for a left-wing economic approach By Erez Raviv
01.24.2024 How Caring for Plants Helped One Israeli Tween Face Wartime Anxiety Itai Azimi, not yet 12 years old, found a way to dispel his paralyzing fear of the wartime sirens and sounds of explosions: in the yard of his home in Karkur, he devotes himself to growing plants in the nursery he established. He donates the money to Israelis from towns around Gaza and to IDF soldiers | “From now on, it's the job of children to help soldiers. Everyone should help everyone” By Yahel Farag
01.21.2024 Histadrut, Business Group Sign Agreement To Compensate Employees Who Missed Work due to War The agreement, which will be implemented after receiving approval from the Ministry of Labor, includes state funding to compensate workers who were evacuated from their homes or had to watch over their children | Chairman of the Histadrut, Arnon Bar-David: "This is a safety net for the populations that suffered the greatest economic damage" By Nizzan Zvi Cohen
01.13.2024 “Israeli Sovereignty Depends on Solidarity Between the Cities and the Kibbutzim” Dubi Helman, a prominent leader of the kibbutz movement, believes that the last three months have proven the relevance of kibbutzim to Israeli society: "Without the kibbutzim, which knew how to stand up to the attacks, without their resilience, initiative and organizational abilities - the situation would have been much worse." By David Tversky
01.13.2024 Histadrut, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Reach Agreement to Improve Working Conditions The agreement ends a five-year labor dispute and will apply to the 1,200 employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel and its embassies around the world | Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David: "The employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are our political and advocacy front" By Nizzan Zvi Cohen