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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

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Morocco's Deputy Foreign Minister Mohcine Jazouli greets Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (center) at Rabat-Sale International Airport, August 11, 2021 (Shlomi Amsalem, GPO)
August 31, 2022, 1:27 pm
Lapid said to hire private travel firm for upcoming overseas visits
News site says Amsalem Tours will manage premier’s trips to Berlin and the UN amid wage dispute between Foreign Ministry and government
By Ash Obel
Travelers at the departure hall of Ben Gurion International Airport ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover. April 14, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/FLASH90)
May 26, 2022, 12:29 pm
Amid wage dispute, Israelis abroad increasingly unable to get replacement passports
Many consular services have run out of passports; Foreign Ministry workers refuse to send refills due to conflict over salaries
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: A woman feeds an elderly woman at an aged care home in Israel, October 17, 2002. (Flash90)
February 22, 2022, 5:20 pm
Disgruntled diplomats said refusing to process visas for Nepalese nursing home staff
Some 1,000 workers not being let into Israel due to labor dispute, according to report, as representative of geriatric institutions declares extreme shortage of care providers
By ToI Staff
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to reporters during a news conference during 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at United Nations headquarters, on September 25, 2021. (Mary Altaffer/AP)
December 11, 2021, 11:04 pm
Russia’s foreign minister cancels trip to Israel, North Africa
Sergei Lavrov backs out of meeting with Bennett and Lapid amid Ukraine tensions and delicate Iran talks; Israeli sources say visit officially postponed
By Lazar Berman
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield on November 15, 2021. (Asi Efrati/ GPO)
November 30, 2021, 4:26 pm
Foreign Ministry workers open labor dispute, putting official visits at risk
Ministry now has two weeks to negotiate before union takes action, says it is committed to improving conditions for diplomats, employees
By Lazar Berman
Foreign Ministry employees disrupt a meeting of the promotions committee as a committee member waits for them to leave, October 19, 2021 (Lazar Berman/Times of Israel)
October 20, 2021, 2:28 am
Blasting obdurate Finance Ministry, diplomats launch fight for better conditions
Foreign Ministry workers disrupt committee meeting to demand new promotions policy, ask Lapid to take up their cause, warn embassies could be shut
By Lazar Berman
People gather outside the Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 4, 2020, 4:14 pm
State comptroller says Israel’s foreign service badly underfunded, uncoordinated
In report, ombudsman list various government bodies that deal with same issues, often without communication; Foreign Ministry hails report as vindication of longstanding grievances
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Russian police guard outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on September 18, 2018. (AFP/Vasily Maximov)
October 30, 2019, 3:53 am
Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attachés strike
Foreign and Defense ministries unite in long-simmering dispute with Treasury over bid to retroactively cut envoys’ expense stipends; no consular services for Israelis abroad
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Israel Katz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, June 24, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
September 9, 2019, 12:03 pm
Averting shutdown, Foreign Ministry gets emergency cash injection
Finance Ministry grants undisclosed ‘preliminary amount’ to allow diplomats to continue their work, announces ‘comprehensive reform’
By Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
People gather outside the Foreign Ministry building in Jerusalem, November 15, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 8, 2019, 8:10 pm
Foreign Ministry forced to freeze most diplomatic activity due to lack of funds
Diplomats call Finance Ministry’s order to halt many of their operations worldwide ‘unprecedented’; say they warned ‘time and again’ of funding shortfall
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the International Conference on Digital Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 16, 2019, 6:57 am
Defunded and sidelined, Israel’s diplomats threaten to harm the state they serve
No cash for coffee: Foreign Ministry Workers Union, blaming Netanyahu for budget crisis and more, starts sanctions, vows to disrupt PM’s trips and business deals worth millions
By Raphael Ahren
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara boarding a plane at Ben Gurion Airport before departing to Moscow, Russia, on July 11, 2018. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 11, 2019, 5:03 pm
Furious at cuts, Israeli diplomats to boycott preparations for PM’s trips abroad
Unprecedented step comes as sweeping budget slashes force cancellation of cultural events, student projects, passport and visa processing, and diplomats’ basic travel
By ToI Staff
Anat Amichai, the wife of the head of security at Israel's embassy in Wellington, New Zealand, casting the first vote in the elections for the 21th Knesset, in early polling allowed for diplomats and their families, March 28, 2019. (Israel Foreign Ministry)
April 4, 2019, 7:38 pm
Israeli diplomats threaten to withhold absentee ballots over tax row
Labor union won’t hand over key to room holding votes until Finance Ministry reverses order to tax diplomatic hospitality budgets
By ToI Staff
Foreign Ministry workers protesting in Jerusalem on March 24, 2014. The sign reads "Strike here." (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 30, 2018, 5:40 pm
Strike disrupts consular services at Israeli missions abroad
Some 600 supporting workers, but no diplomats, protest Finance Ministry ‘stalling’ on agreement meant to improve employment conditions
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the International Conference on Digital Diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on December 7, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 16, 2018, 3:17 pm
Foreign Ministry official slams budget cuts as a ‘strategic terror attack’
At Knesset panel, diplomats join opposition in decrying proposed closure of 7 missions, saying no country invests as little in its foreign service as Israel
By Raphael Ahren
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