The World - News from July 12, 1985
About 70,000 Israeli public employees planning to join water and electrical workers already on strike against government austerity measures called off the action. Their unions’ leaders canceled the walkout after an appeal by Prime Minister Shimon Peres that workers give Israel’s sweeping austerity decrees a chance to succeed. The accord grew out of marathon talks among Peres, Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai and Histadrut trade-union federation leader Yisrael Kessar aimed at averting a general strike set for next week.
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