Back payments of about $8 million to Western Power workers are nearly complete after the government-owned enterprise identified underpayments from as early as 2010.
After Early Virus Success, Israel Heads For Partial Lockdown
Once a role model in the fight against Covid-19, Israel is set to lock down several cities to slow the fast-spreading contagion as the government faces harsh criticism over the crisis. Israel passed the milestone of 1,000 novel coronavirus deaths this weekend after the toll tripled over the summer, fuelling regular protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s management of the health crisis and associated economic downturn. The dead were commemorated by Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s top-selling daily newspaper, which covered its front page with the names of the pandemic victims and called out the “shameful failure of the management of the […]
