Labor

Study reveals surprising trends in sick leave use across Israel in 2025

A 2025 study of Israeli workers finds sick leave patterns shaped by job type and flexibility, not commitment, with Gen Z taking the fewest days and public sector absenteeism highest.

 Flu and cold season is here. Prepared accordingly
 Palestinian workers wait to enter Ma'aleh Adumim, February 23, 2023; illustrative.

Foreign workers replace Palestinian labor in Israel, face hurdles

 Arnon Bar-David, Chairman of the Histadrut, speaks at a press conference attended by heads from the Israeli commerce sector attend a press conference at the Histadrut Union in Tel Aviv on March 27, 2023

Histadrut head Arnon Bar-David among labor leaders arrested in alleged public corruption scheme

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters the Knesset plenum, October 20, 2025.

Knesset erupts over speaker's jab at Supreme Court chief, Netanyahu expects more peace deals


Labor Party files criminal complaint against Netanyahu

"I want to give you [ministers] a fist to strike at them [protestors against judicial reform]," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the cabinet meeting

Israel's opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu is seen gesturing at the Knesset, on July 26, 2021.

Labor presents mock bill to place Arye Deri 'above Israeli law'

The proposed bill would edit the Basic Law - the Government to state that Deri could not be tried for theft, corruption or tax offenses.

 ARYE DERI gives the thumbs-up sign on Wednesday outside his Har Nof home in Jerusalem.

Gov't's economic plan ‘smokescreen to hide seizure of power’ -Merav Michaeli

“Spoiler: Mr. ‘Cost of Living’ won't deal with the cost of living, just like he won't really deliver free education,” Michaeli wrote.

Merav Michaeli at the Maariv conference,

Former MK, dep. police commissioner Moshe Mizrahi passes away age 72

Moshe Mizrahi, a former Labor MK and high-ranking police official, has passed away.

Labor MK Moshe Mizrahi

Avi Maoz is alienating even Likud members

National unity, if it ever arrives, will have to wait for a much later phase and very different circumstances.

 MK AVI Maoz attends a discussion in the Knesset plenum, last month.

Israel's center-left is in the opposition, and it is crumbling

INSIDE POLITICS: Once they were eight, sitting around the Bennett-Lapid cabinet table, all sharing one mutual achievement. Now they are five and sharing a defeat.

 PRIME MINISTER Yair Lapid convenes a meeting of his coalition partners in the Knesset on Tuesday.

Grapevine November 6, 2022: Pride before the fall

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 YITZHAK RABIN

Merav Michaeli must take responsibility for failing Labor - editorial

Under Merav Michaeli's leadership, Labor fell from seven seats to just four, and yet she refuses to take responsibility for the failure.

 Head of the Labour party and Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli gives a statment to the media following the results of the Knesset elections in Tel Aviv, on November 3, 2022.

Israel remembers Rabin as Netanyahu prepares to retake control

A number of MKs addressed the fact that this year's memorial will be held as Ben Gvir prepares to enter the new government.

 Israelis attend a memorial ceremony for late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, organized by the Labour party, at Zion Square in Jerusalem October 29, 2022.

On This Day in 1995: Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir

Rabin, a former prime minister, IDF chief of staff and Israeli war hero, was assassinated during a pro-Oslo Accords rally in Tel Aviv.

A memorial ceremony for former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, November 7, 2019