It wasn’t an ordinary strike. It wasn’t about better pay, and it wasn’t about better working conditions. Rather, it was about preventing an overthrow of the system of government that could easily wipe out the industry that employs and sustains them.
Hundreds of high-tech workers, perhaps as many as a thousand, participated in Tuesday’s hour-long strike – from 11 A.M. to noon – in one of the main industry hubs in Tel Aviv, just outside the Defense Ministry headquarters. They came carrying Israeli flags and signs that read “No democracy, no high-tech” and “No freedom, no high-tech.”