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Last update - 22:19 08/04/2008 Interior Ministry, Finance Ministry employees to strike Wednesday By Haim Bior, TheMarker Tags: Israel Discount Bank  The Interior Ministry and the Finance Ministry will not provide services to the public, starting Wednesday. The Interior Ministry will not issue or renew passports, ID cards, Birth certificates, death certificates and other official documents. Within the Finance Ministry, the partial strike will mainly affect the accountant general's department, disrupting ministry payments to suppliers and state-supported institutions. Advertisement Transportation Ministry employees will join the strike Thursday, resulting in the cancellation of all driving tests. The strike is the result of an ongoing financial dispute between the civil servants labor union and Accountant General Shuki Oren over the sytem of defrayment of loans to civil servants. The civil servants union claims that the loan conditions favor loans issued by Israel Discount Bank. Bookmark to del.icio.us   In his father's memory Gilad Sharon's son plans to write his father's memoirs as he lies in a coma. Jammed FM Police close an English radio station which encourages Israeli-Palestinian dialogue.

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