Protesters begin to gather at labor federation headquarters, demanding general strike

Simona Weinglass is an investigative reporter at The Times of Israel.

Protesters against the judicial overhaul at the Histadrut labor federation headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2023 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)
Protesters against the judicial overhaul at the Histadrut labor federation headquarters in Tel Aviv, July 11, 2023 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)

A crowd of several hundred people are gathered outside the Histadrut headquarters demanding that Israel’s largest labor union declare a general strike.

Dozens of groups of protesters are approaching the building from across the city.

They are banging drums, blowing horns and making the sound of a rising and falling air raid siren.

Several Histadrut officials whose identity cannot be discerned are looking down on the protestors from a balcony.

Nurit, 65, a university professor, says she came to demand that Histadrut chief Arnon Ben David declare a general strike so that “all the workers can show solidarity with the protesters.”

“I am afraid he will not respond because he is not on the side of the protesters,” she says.

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