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National Nurses Union

Illustrative: Ilana Cohen, chairwoman of the National Nurses Union, speaks during a protest at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, on July 20, 2020, after nurses announced a general strike. (Flash90)
July 20, 2020, 9:30 pm
Nurses end strike after deal with Finance Ministry to solve manpower shortages
Health and finance ministries pledge to hire 2,000 new nurses and 400 more doctors, spend billions on equipment; 1,507 new virus cases diagnosed over the day
By ToI Staff
Nurses from Hadassah Medical Center protest in Jerusalem on July 20, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 20, 2020, 8:34 am
Nurses launch general strike in protest of staff shortages, after talks fail
Hospitals and health clinics nationwide to offer reduced services, with exceptions in urgent cases and responses to coronavirus
By ToI Staff
Nurses protest against their work conditions outside the Health Ministry in Jerusalem July 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 19, 2020, 2:12 pm
Nurses to strike Monday over staff shortages after treasury talks break down
With 813 nurses quarantined, union says personnel crisis was bad even before the pandemic; social workers continue labor dispute with protests across the country
By ToI Staff
Nurses at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, February 19, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 13, 2020, 10:37 am
As virus cases surge, nurses threaten general strike over strain, lack of staff
More than 750 nurses in quarantine; need for personnel is rising as coronavirus wards reopen in pandemic’s second wave
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of cancer research at a lab at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)
August 1, 2019, 11:45 am
Medical lab technicians go on strike over workload and wages
Week after nurses forced into arbitration with Health Ministry and ordered to call off labor action, other staff take up protest
By ToI Staff
Nurses protest against their work conditions outside the Health Ministry in Jerusalem July 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 24, 2019, 6:14 pm
Court orders striking nurses back to work after two-day standoff
Medical staff protesting heavy caseloads, poor working conditions in hospitals and clinics told to enter talks with Health Ministry
By ToI Staff
Nurses protest against their work conditions outside the Ministry of Health in Jeursalem July 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 23, 2019, 4:30 am
Nurses go on strike to protest working conditions, heavy caseloads
Walkout impacts hospitals and health clinics across Israel; emergency care and other essential services to continue
By ToI Staff
Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018 (Courtesy Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)
August 7, 2018, 9:32 am
Nurses go on strike over violence against medical staff
Late-night negotiations with Finance and Health ministries fail to produce an agreement on demands to address increasing attacks on health care professionals by patients
By ToI Staff
Illustrative A nurse in a hospital, in Israel, on September 3, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 6, 2018, 11:00 am
Nurses call strike over violence against medical staff
Union says authorities failing to address increasing attacks on health care professionals by patients
By ToI Staff
Security camera footage from Shmuel Harofe Medical Center allegedly shows Oshar Bakhit drawing a knife, with which he stabbed a nurse, Rachel Kovo. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 20, 2018, 12:25 pm
Man indicted for stabbing nurse at Shmuel Harofe hospital
Oshar Bakhit, a Sudanese national in Israel on a temporary visa, charged with attacking 65-year-old Rachel Kovo, seriously injuring her
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Nurses strike at Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in protest of violence against medical personnel, July 4, 2018. (Courtesy: Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital)
July 4, 2018, 12:28 pm
Nurses hold nationwide strike to protest violence against medical staff
Employees walk out of hospitals, clinics, child health centers over Monday stabbing of a nurse by a patient
By ToI Staff
Ilana Cohen, chairwoman of the National Association of Nurses, with hundreds of nurses from all over Israel during a protest in Jerusalem, December 17, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 20, 2012, 2:10 am
Nurses sign deal with Finance Ministry to end strike
Government agrees to increase salaries by 13% over 4.5 years
By Ilan Ben Zion
Nurses at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital on December 11, 2012 (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 12, 2012, 9:41 am
Amid faltering talks with Treasury, two-day truce called in nurses’ strike
Labor Court denies Finance Ministry’s petition for back-to-work orders against strikers
By Gabe Fisher
National Nurses Union Chairwoman Ilana Cohen outside the Finance Ministry in February (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
December 10, 2012, 7:38 pm
Nurses intensify strike as negotiations falter
Finance Ministry says it will petition Labor Court to order strikers back to work
By Ilan Ben Zion
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