The Israel Builders Association Said the Strike Over the Situation in Gaza, Jerusalem and in Mixed Cities Across Israel Paralyzed Building Sites, Causing Estimated Losses of Nearly $40 Million
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May. 19, 2021
A hundred East Jerusalem residents have been working for years as street cleaners in Modi’in. There had never been any friction or conflict between them and the city’s residents. Every day they would leave Shoafat, go through two checkpoints to arrive at 5:30 A.M. in the Israeli city, collect garbage until the afternoon, and go home. Modi’in residents are pleased with how their city looks, and would at times send messages to the municipality complimenting the cleaners’ work.
On Tuesday, as a result of the strike called by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee in Israel to protest the situation in Gaza, Jerusalem, and the country’s mixed cities, the longtime cleaners did not come to work. In the evening, other Arab workers came to the city to clean the streets.