Labor

Foreign workers replace Palestinian labor in Israel, face hurdles

Restructuring of work permits and recruitment policies is reshaping construction, agriculture, and services while raising concerns about long-term economic and social effects.

 Palestinian workers wait to enter Ma'aleh Adumim, February 23, 2023; illustrative.
 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

Activist Andy Hall attends a meeting at the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office to discuss his detainment in Qatar, July 2025.

Doha clears UK activist Andy Hall of defamation over migrant rights case


Lapid's campaign a 'resounding failure,' National Unity says

The blame game began after it became clear on Wednesday afternoon that Balad was not going to pass the electoral threshold, thus ensuring a victory for the Right bloc led by Netanyahu.

Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and MK Yair Lapid

8 out of 65 seats: Who are the women of Israel's newly elected gov't?

Overnight, Israel saw the number of women in the government shrink from 24 seats to just eight. Who are the women of Israel's new government?

Miri Regev, 2019.

Israel election: Final results announced for election 2022

With Meretz and Balad definitely below the threshold, Netanyahu is ensured victory and will look to form a coalition.

 Vote counting at the Knesset on November 3, 2022

Israel Elections: Left-wing Labor, Meretz secure 8-9 seats - exit polls

These parties make up the left-wing bloc together with bloc leader Yesh Atid, led by current prime minister Yair Lapid. In total, the left-wing bloc is estimated at 55 seats.

 Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli, Meretz leader Zehava Galon

Herzog at the polling booth excites massive media focus

Video crews and stills photographers had gathered outside the school well before 7:30 a.m. although the president was not scheduled to arrive till 8:30.

 Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the ballot box on Israel's November 2022 elections.

Israel Elections: The Jerusalem Post's top seven tips ahead of tomorrow's mayhem

Voting is a privilege and a right that excites the Israeli public every time it comes around (and around and around), and it's not just the day off of work; election day can be quite exciting.

 A demonstration of a polling station ahead of the March 2021 elections.

Israel Elections: Which parties, politicians are Israelis Googling?

Here are the parties and candidates that were searched the most in Israel in the past week up until the election, according to Google Trends.

Google Doodle for Israel's election day

Israel elections: Politicians enter final preparations as voting day nears

Labor on Saturday night held a rally in memory of former Labor leader and prime minister Yizhak Rabin, who was assassinated on November 4, 1995.

 A NEARLY-EMPTY Knesset plenum debates the dispersal of parliament, in June. In the upcoming election, be a strategic and principled voter, not a tactical and cynical one, says the writer.

Michaeli: 'Lapid is behaving irresponsibly,' warns of 'undemocratic future'

Michael claimed that the only party that addresses women's issues is Labor, and because of this, it was one of the few truly democratic parties.

Merav Michaeli at the Maariv conference,

Labor Party calls for building freeze in isolated West Bank settlements

The party reaffirmed its support for a two-state resolution to the conflict and for the retention of the settlement blocs within Israel’s final borders.

Labor Party leader Merav Michaeli, the only female current Knesset party leader running in the upcoming elections, speaks at a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem, on Sunday.