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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Report: Some 25,000 teachers, kindergarten staff nationwide called in sick in strike action
View of an empty classroom at a school in Tel Aviv, during a strike, on May 4, 2025 (Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)
An estimated 25,000 members of teaching staff called in sick nationwide today amid action over surprise government salary cuts, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
The figure represents some 10 percent of teachers and kindergarten staff, the report says, meaning that many educational institutions were shut today.
The Israel Teachers Union had announced on Friday that it would strike until 11 a.m., a measure taken to protest a surprise 3.3 percent drop in government salaries for April. The strike ended at 10 a.m. in accordance with a decision by the Tel Aviv Labor Court.
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