Israeli Union of Foreign Ministry Employees lunched strike over financial situation

The Israeli Union of Foreign Ministry Employees is stepping up its current work struggle, in a demand that the employees' living allowance be updated.

The union has declared it will not offer any assistance to the newly appointed ambassadors who are not diplomats.

The appointees who will suffer from these steps are three appointees selected by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the course of the last week: Danny Danon, who was appointed UN Ambassador; Fiamma Nirenstein, who was appointed Ambassador to Italy, and Dani Dayan, who was appointed Ambassador to Brazil.

This is the third labor dispute that Foreign Ministry employees have launched in the last five years.