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April 18, 2016

Will Israel’s Unions Kill the Start-Up Nation?

It’s time to reform labor laws.

Recently, the workers’ union at the Israeli office of Amdocs—a Missouri-based software company—threatened to call a strike if management does not accede to its demands. The threat is evidence of the success of the Histadrut—Israel’s enormously powerful umbrella organization of trade unions—in extending its reach into the country’s fabled high-tech sector. Unless it is checked, write the editors of Mida, this trend could spell the end of the Jewish state’s position as the “start-up nation.”

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