This time, the union has decided to shut down kindergartens around the country, stop school bus services, and make life miserable for everyone in the public schools. If you can t guess, you deserve a failing grade. The union s members want more money. The problem is that the Ministry of Finance and the local authorities cannot agree on their respective shares of whatever raise the strikers will ultimately get. Unless the Ministry of Finance kicks in more money, the 261 local authorities will have to raise local taxes to find the additional funds, and that will anger voters at the next election.
Life goes on in Israel.
Bombs, mortars, bullets, killing, and strikes. We continue to hope.