New version of the controversial law, initiated by coalition whip MK Ofir Katz, would have certain cities receive from the fund instead of paying millions into it
European wave of teachers’ strikes over pay, funding and workload in Germany, Romania, Hungary, Northern Cyprus, and Finland; continuing Iranian cost-of-living protests by pensioners, rail and petrochemical workers face state repression including executions; autoworkers at Tenneco in South Africa continue their indefinite strike for pay parity and the reinstatement of 87 sacked strikers