Israel’s Unemployed Plan Human Chain
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TEL AVIV — 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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