For weeks Barkat and his team had been peddling to us, his coalition partners, the idea of a strike as the only means of advancing negotiations with the Finance Ministry for the 2017 capital city grant.
A MAN walks past a heap of garbage outside Jerusalem’s Mahaneh Yehuda Market during the three-day municipal strike that began on January 29.(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM)ByFLEUR HASSAN-NAHOUMUpdated: