Flights at Israel's largest airport have partially resumed after being suspended for nearly four hours after the largest trades union in the country called for a general strike
Departures at Ben Gurion Airport were disrupted amid widespread chaos in the country as protesters took to the streets to demonstrate against the government’s controversial judicial reforms.
The head of the workers union, Pinchas Idan, announced an immediate halt to departures and the announcement came within minutes of the head of the Histadrut – the national trade union- declaring a “historic” general strike in an attempt to “stop the madness” of the government’s judicial overhaul.
Union head Arnon Bar-David said the strike would begin as soon as today if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not signal a discontinuation of the judicial overhaul, which seeks to change the makeup of the nine-member judicial committee that selects judges.
