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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

Federation of Local Authorities

Protesters demanding a hostage release deal block traffic at a junction next to the city of Ramat Hasharon, September 2, 2024. (Hillel Maeir/Flash90)
September 2, 2024, 12:04 pm
Striking unions join protest as thousands take to streets for hostage deal
Banks, malls, government offices shuttered, major intersections blocked ahead of main protests later Monday; court rules strike is political in nature and must end at 2:30 p.m.
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Yoav Kisch (left) and Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi visit Israeli children at their classroom on the first day of school since October 7 massacre, in the southern city of Sderot, March 3, 2024. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
July 23, 2024, 4:49 pm
Education minister: Students won’t start school year in displaced northern towns
Kisch presents local leaders with NIS 152 million plan for educational institutions outside war zone in north for students; Gantz says decision ‘expected and frustrating’
By ToI Staff
MK Eli Dallal leads a joint meeting of the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child and the Special Committee for Combating Drug and Alcohol Abuse at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 17, 2024, 3:21 pm
Likud MKs slam revival of bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence
MK charges Religious Zionism party reintroduced bill ‘like thieves in the night’; it would create hundreds of publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, erode women’s role
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv following a strike of the Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 26, 2023, 10:19 pm
High school teachers threaten strike from September 1 amid stalled salary talks
Head of Secondary School Teachers’ Association: ‘We are preparing for a long strike’; Arab communities may also keep schools shut amid deadly crime wave
By ToI Staff
Left to right: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jerusalem Affairs Minister Meir Porush and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion at an announcement in Jerusalem on August 20, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
August 20, 2023, 5:10 pm
Cabinet okays $843m development plan for East Jerusalem, while other funds withheld
Move comes as local authorities call for nationwide two-hour strike on Monday in solidarity with Arab towns across country that are protesting ongoing budget freeze by Smotrich
By ToI Staff
View of a pile of garbage in Tel Aviv on May 16, 2023 amid a municipal strike (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 18, 2023, 6:16 pm
Strike ends, but municipalities vow legal action on plan to redistribute local taxes
Local leaders say they are preparing to challenge program in court once it passes into law while ‘transferring the fight so it focuses on government, not harming residents’
By ToI Staff
Illustration of an empty classroom in a school in Mevaseret Zion, August 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 29, 2023, 11:02 pm
Labor court halts Sunday’s planned high school teachers’ strike
Court rules short notice and method of announcing walkout for grades 10-11 over low wages is unlawful
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: View of an empty school at in Tel Aviv following a strike of the Teachers Union, on June 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 28, 2023, 6:12 pm
High school teachers call Sunday strike to protest for higher wages
Education Ministry says it’ll ask labor court to block cancellation of classes for 10th and 11th graders, accuses union of harming students
By ToI Staff
Teachers from the Teachers Union protest over low salaries, in Tel Aviv, May 25, 2022. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
April 24, 2023, 8:58 pm
Labor court orders teachers to release test grades held hostage in wage fight
Education Ministry agrees not to use results until a subsequent agreement is reached over salary dispute; union slams proposal to raise salaries to NIS 10,000 a month
By ToI Staff
Illustrative (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
February 23, 2023, 9:12 am
Local authorities strike kicks off, shuttering schools around country
Small number of municipalities, led by Jerusalem, not participating in action called over dispute over funding of education system
By ToI Staff
UTJ MK Moshe Gafni speaks at a Degel HaTorah faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 9, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 10, 2023, 11:47 am
Gafni vows to ‘get even’ with authorities who opposed funding private Haredi schools
United Torah Judaism MK says that party will ‘not turn the other cheek’ during upcoming municipal elections to 170 local leaders who signed letter
By ToI Staff
File: Ultra-Orthodox children on the first day of school in Neve Yaakov in Jerusalem, August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
January 8, 2023, 8:06 pm
170 local council leaders say they will oppose funding private Haredi schools
Mayors from across country reject coalition agreements that would see local municipalities finance ultra-Orthodox institutions that teach as little as 55% of state curriculum
By Ash Obel and Michael Bachner
Yaffa Ben David, the secretary general of the Israel Teachers Union, speaks at a conference of the Federation of Local Authorities in Ganei Tikva, August 18, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 18, 2022, 2:46 pm
Teachers union chief predicts ‘chaos,’ school year not opening due to wage dispute
Yaffa Ben David says the way things are going in talks with Treasury, strike action is inevitable; vows Finance Ministry will fail in effort to prevent labor action
By ToI Staff
Blue and White MK Ruth Wasserman Lande (Courtesy)
August 24, 2021, 12:23 pm
For South African-raised MK, Jewish-Arab coexistence is urgent and close to home
Blue and White’s Ruth Wasserman Lande is hoping her third time being sworn into the Knesset will be the charm
By Amy Spiro
Modiin Mayor Haim Bibas (left) and Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (composite image: Flash90)
October 22, 2020, 7:07 pm
The two ambitious mayors who may save Netanyahu and doom the left
Will a run by Tel Aviv’s Ron Huldai drive Meretz out of the Knesset? Will Modiin’s Haim Bibas, an outspoken Netanyahu critic, be his lifeline?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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