Hold your Israeli passport when you travel abroad, because in the coming days it will take much longer to replace it if it is lost or stolen, like some 600 local staff working at the Israeli embassies and consulates strike called Thursday.
This is only the last episode of various work sanctions that have plagued the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for years. It comes a year after Hanan Godar, head of the foreign ministry, told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also the foreign minister, that local staff who do the work of Judaism in the offices of Israel abroad, earn less than pizza-eating boys.
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As a result of the strike there will be no reception hours for consular issues at consulates and embassies, and a number of discussions in the UN and the EU will take place without Israeli representation.
Ron Kormus, a local tenant working at the consulate in Boston, who is in the US and guides his wife in promoting her medical studies, said salaries for local employees around the world range from NIS 5,500 to 6,800 per month – regardless of where they work and what the cost of living in those cities are.
Kormus, a representative of the workers' committee for local employees, said in an interview with Kan Bet that the committee has been talking to the Ministry of Finance for months, but that "nothing moves".
He said that the Treasury and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs can not reach an agreement, although the costs for the public treasury of the benefits that the employees demand would only amount to NIS six million per year.
"There is a breakdown in communication between the two ministries that hurts us – they do not agree," he said.
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The Ministry of Finance said that there has been a constant dialogue with the workers over the last few months and that it is "sorry" that the workers have decided to strike, even if the talks are continued.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not comment on the case.
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