Israel\’s main labor union declared a general strike on Monday, shutting down major sectors of the country\’s economy, but a labor court intervened issuing an injunction that limited the strike to just four hours, officials said.
Israel\’s Foreign Ministry has slammed the European Union\’s foreign policy chief for criticizing an Israeli court\’s conviction of a Palestinian protest leader.
Etz Chaim, for its part, is arguing that the settlement is valid, that it did not violate the settlement and, that, in any case, federal law exempts it from zoning regulations.
Living in the Radom ghetto in central Poland, Saul Friedman applied for work in 1942, and for the next two years cleaned a building and labored in a peat bog for the German army.\n\nHe earned no money, but received something much more valuable extra food rations. When the ghetto was finally liquidated in 1944, he was sent to an Auschwitz satellite camp, then to Mauthausen, and after liberation came to the United States.\n\nFriedman, 85, is one of thousands of other survivors in the United States, Israel and elsewhere, who are now entangled in a bureaucratic hassle over a recent German law meant to benefit a little known class of survivors.
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