Word: histradrut
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...government's intermittent efforts at forcing them to settle. He fails, however, to explain the reason for the present Shah's opposition to the nomads and sounds much too much like a travelogue. Safran, on the other hand, in the most interesting article in the issue, discusses the Histradrut, an Israeli combination trade union and industrial empire. He describes its formation, in the days before the organization of the state of Israel, as an organization to include "all workers who live by their own labor without exploiting the labor of others." It is basically a trade union combined with...
Public and press, nurtured in the tradition that "doctors don't strike," were shocked. Said the Socialist daily Davar: "The doctors' action is unprecedented and conflicts with all ethical principles of the medical profession." And nobody jumped harder on them^than Histradrut, the high temple of militant trade unionism. It suspended the doctors' trade-union membership and summoned them before its court of honor for breach of discipline...
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