Treasury tries to buy port workers' support for changes
Government representatives have offered port workers a guaranteed grant as part of the public issue of shares for the country's ports.
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Police raid municipal building in central Israel, arresting several officials including mayor
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Shippers demand strike compensation
Freight owners whose cargoes had to be unloaded in foreign ports due to October's Israeli ports strike have yet to receive compensation for damages promised to them by the Finance Ministry.
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One step nearer to port privatization
The negotiations over the planned structural changes in the ports shifted into high gear this week. After three months of ongoing talks between the government officials and the port workers, the head of the treasury's budget division, Uri Yogev, has joined the negotiations and has been meeting personally with employees in the Ashdod and Haifa ports in order to reach an agreement in the next 10 days.
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Ports Authority seeks court's help against workers
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PWD workers to be paid to do nothing
A number of workers from the Public Works Department (PWD) who are scheduled to be fired in next few weeks, will continue to receive their monthly salaries during all of 2004, even though they will not actually be working at all during the year, according to sources inside the ministries.
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Record 20m take the train
Some 20 million passengers rode Israel's trains in 2003 - an increase of 13.3 percent in relation to 2002 and the highest number of rail passengers ever recorded in the country, according to figures released yesterday by Israel Railways' marketing and sales division.
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End of days at the PWD
The demise of the Public Works Department (Ma'atz) has begun - 715 workers will be fired gradually and a new state company will replace the PWD. The new firm will hire 200 of the laid-off workers in two stages.
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Road deaths drop 13.5 percent in 2003
The number of road accident deaths in 2003 fell by 13.5 percent compared to the previous year and was the lowest annual figure in 21 years, according to statistics released by the Israel Police's Traffic Department yesterday.
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Contradictions, lacunae and redundancies
Israel has over 10,000 pages of building regulations, construction standards and building guidelines. A company that in 1996 carried out a project involving the preparation of an integrated compilation containing all of the country's construction regulations uncovered no fewer than 519 contradictions, lacunae and redundancies, with which it is still dealing today.
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