Israel’s Unemployed Plan Human Chain
Jobless Israelis will link hands Sunday along the highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel’s two main cities, to protest rising unemployment.
The Histadrut trade federation, representing more than 80% of the Israeli work force, said Tuesday that jobless Israelis will form a human chain along a stretch of the 40-mile highway.
“This is a real strike to sound the alarm and protest and express solidarity and apply pressure on a subject that affects us all,” Chaim Haberfeld, a leading Histadrut official, told reporters.
The nationwide strike, the first in four years, was called after unemployment topped 9% in June, compared to an average of 6.4% last year.
The strike will close Tel Aviv’s international airport, government radio stations and most public and private concerns.
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