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The Adventures of the Jewish Nurse in the Land of Israel

Thoughts and proposals on the ongoing nurses’ strike in Israel.
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Israeli nurses on strike.

Israeli nurses on strike.
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Stop trying to compel nurses to work the hardest, longest shifts by making it impossible to bring a decent salary home without accumulating so many of them per month. The long night shifts should be distributed among more people, which again requires expanding the pool of available nurses. This needs to be done immediately, and it would be worthwhile to bring it up in negotiations with the committees, which as usual will want to impose a wage tie-in.

The government should regard nursing as a vital profession that deserves to be given priority, and should regard the current situation as an emergency.

Granted, the emergency has been ongoing for some time. But the wrongs of the past don’t justify misdeeds in the future.

Originally published in Makor Rishon, December 14th 2012. Translated from Hebrew by David B. Greenberg.

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About the Author: Lt.-Col. (ret.) Meir Indor is CEO of Almagor Terror Victims Association. In his extended career of public service, he has worked as a journalist, founded the Libi Fund, Sar-El, Habaita, among many other initiatives, and continues to lend his support to other pressing causes of the day.


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