Disabled protesters and activists on Thursday blocked a major highway in Tel Aviv as a part of a marketing campaign for higher incapacity stipends and pensions for the aged, inflicting a major artery working via town to be closed for nearly an hour, and resulting in confrontations between drivers and protesters.
Southbound site visitors on the Ayalon freeway on the Azrieli intersection got here to a whole standstill throughout rush hour after the highway was blocked by round 150 activists, a lot of them disabled, who have been calling for presidency stipends for the disabled and aged to be elevated to NIS 5,300 ($1,500) in order that it matches the minimal wage.
Among these in attendance have been Joint List MK Dov Khenin and Meretz MK Ilan Gilon. Holding indicators with slogans resembling, “We want justice, not charity,” and, “We do not abandon the elderly, children, and the disabled,” the demonstrators have been persevering with protests which started in March 2017.
After a 12 months of negotiations and dozens of wildcat protests blocking roads and snarling site visitors, the Knesset in February raised the month-to-month stipend to NIS three,700 ($1,050). However, activists say that this isn’t sufficient.
Songwriter Shimrit Or defined her causes for attending the the protest to the Walla information web site: “I'm each disabled and aged, due to this fact I establish with this. And with none connection I establish with the wrestle of needy individuals battling a stipend of about NIS 2,500, once they have to deal with way more critical and existential issues than different individuals.
“That’s half the minimum wage that a worker makes in a month,” she stated. “It is impossible to live on this amount. That is clear, but the government, for all sorts of irrelevant reasons, ignores it and gets stuck in political battles.”