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Labor court blocks Walla layoffs, overhaul pending talks with journalists’ union

The ruling explained, in a unionized workplace, a company cannot proceed with layoffs before giving the union the information needed to understand, question, and offer solutions to the plan.

JULY 9, 2026|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Walla News building in Tel Aviv, on March 20,2020.

A participant waves an Israeli flag and a rainbow flag with a Star of David above a crowd during the annual Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 12, 2026.

LGBTQ defunding risks layoffs and service cuts, labor union warns MK Golan

Histadrut HaMaof, a branch of Israel's national labor federation, demanded that the government halt the move and hold talks with workers’ representatives before any funding is cut.

JUNE 18, 2026|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

AVI DABUSH (left) sits alongside Democrats Party leader Yair Golan and MK Naama Lazimi (Democrats).

Head of Rabbis for Human Rights Avi Dabush to run in Democrats Party primaries

The left-wing Democrats Party is composed of the Labor and Meretz parties, which merged in 2024. Dabush is expected to run for one of the reserved Meretz slots on the party’s list.

APRIL 23, 2026|ByKESHET NEEV

U.S. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer speaks with fellow cabinet members before an event for MLS champion Inter Miami CF at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 5, 2026.

US Labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct probe

The Labor Department’s inspector general is nearing the end of a months-long investigation into a whistleblower’s allegations of professional misconduct by Chavez-DeRemer.

APRIL 21, 2026|ByREUTERS

Israel elections: How are Likud and Labor primaries significant? - opinion

One thing is certain: neither the list elected last week in the Labor Party, nor the one elected in the Likud would have been imaginable back in the 1990s.

AUGUST 14, 2022BySUSAN HATTIS ROLEF

LIKUD CHAIRMAN and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu casts his ballot in the party primary, last week.

Former education minister Aharon Yadlin dies at 96

Long-time MK and United Kibbutz Movement secretary-general was ‘stickler for equality, Zionism and human value’

AUGUST 12, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Living on the Gaza border: What it's really like for one Israeli amid war

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov.

AUGUST 11, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Iron dome anti-missile system fires interception missiles as rockets fired from the Gaza Strip to Israel, in Ashkelon on August 7, 2022.

Labor’s primary winner: Naama who? - analysis

This time around, Labor’s No. 2 -- if the party’s primary results are honored and there are no unexpected outside figures parachuted to the top 2 slots in the list -- will be filled by Naama Lazimi.

AUGUST 10, 2022ByHERB KEINON

Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli with Labor party Mk Naama Lazimi and Yaya Fink after the results were announced in the Labor party primary elections, in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022.

Labor primaries: Here are the winners and the losers

Lazimi, Kariv, Rayten win big in Labor primary

AUGUST 9, 2022ByELIAV BREUER

Labor leader and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli with MK's and party members after the results were announced in the Labor party primary elections, in Tel Aviv, August 9, 2022.

Wolt delivery people split over court ruling that may make them employees

Until now, Wolt deliverers have not been considered employees of the company and did not get rights like vacation days and insurance.

AUGUST 4, 2022ByWALLA!

A life well lived – Tamar Eshel dies on her 102nd birthday

Just as her parents' generation had helped the British fight the Turks, Eshel also helped the British in their battle against the Nazis and their cohorts during the Second World War.

JULY 25, 2022ByGREER FAY CASHMAN