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Israeli Teachers Back to Work After 55-Day Strike
Teachers struck a deal with the government on Thursday to end Israel’s longest strike that nearly wrecked the academic year for 600,000 students.
About 41,000 members of Israel’s Secondary School Teachers Union walked off the job in early October in support of a big pay rise and a new collective bargaining agreement.
The 55-day strike has dominated newspaper headlines.
The new deal will give the teachers an immediate wage increase of 13.5 percent in return for more hours at school helping failing and gifted students. The government said it would work to reduce the number of students per class.
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