A wild cat strike hit Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on August 20, creating chaos with flight cancellations and delays from which the airport is still recovering, despite the end of the strike. Workers charged that there is an insufficient workforce to handle the workload during this peak travel season. The strike earned Ben Gurion the title of the 10th most disrupted airport globally, data from Flightradar24 showed.
While the Histadrut labor union denied having called the strike, Likud party sources told the Ynet news site that the strike was an effort to politically harm Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Miri Regev.
“No labor dispute was declared,” said a senior Likud party official. “There were no threats, preliminary steps, that would have given early indication of a dramatic strike like this. So what happened, after all? A clear attempt to harm Regev, and—indirectly—also Netanyahu.”
