Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Wednesday announced that he will vote against a bill barring a lawmaker charged with a serious crime from becoming prime minister. After Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid announced Monday that they decided to dissolve the coalition amid its struggles to properly function, several…

Yitzhak Moyal, chairman of the Construction and Wood Workers Union within Israel’s Histadrut labor federation, said, “We’re lacking about 40,000 workers, in 10 different professions. We’re hoping to receive about 15,000 Moroccan construction workers, in a few batches. This could really improve the pace of construction in Israel. The Moroccan…

WHO’s chief said on Wednesday the blockade on the Tigray region in war ravaged Ethiopia preventing access to deliver food and medicine has created “hell” and described the situation as an “insult to humanity”. He even compared the Ethiopian conflict to the one in Syria and Yemen: “Humanitarian access even…

The Knesset’s Economic Affairs Committee on Monday approved expanding enforcement measures for two-wheeled electric vehicles, particularly motorized scooters and bicycles. The move will allow city inspectors to penalize riders for additional offenses, with the aim of promoting road safety. The idea of giving local inspectors more authority on this issue…

The central Israeli city was ranked the most gay-friendly city in Israel yet again by The Aguda — The Association for LGBTQ Equality in Israel. Tel Aviv, known for being the most gay-friendly city in the Jewish state, has come out on top yet again in the Aguda’s annual rankings…

A strike by Tunisia’s largest trade union ground the country to a halt despite last-minute attempts by the country’s president, Kais Saied, to prevent it from taking place. The Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) called for the country’s three million public-sector workers to strike and it said most took part…

US coalition forces said they captured a senior Islamic State group bomb maker in an airborne operation before dawn Thursday in northern Syria. A war monitor and AFP correspondents said military helicopters touched down for only a few minutes in a village in an area controlled by Turkish-backed rebel groups. …

Bloomberg.com reports that the case is Ellis v. Google LLC, Google having to pay out $118 million settlement to over 15,000 female employees for gender discrimination. The settlement was reached immediately upon conclusion of the case and involves women across 236 job titles. According to David Neumark, an economist at…