Only in Israel: Mossad to organize Netanyahu trip to Greece because of Foreign Ministry strike

Thirty years ago, the joke in Israel was that half the country was on strike while the other half stood around watching. In fact, during a trip here in 1979, there was a grounds crew strike at Ben Gurion Airport, and when we saw the number of ground workers in the papers, my father claimed that there were more ground workers at Ben Gurion at that time than United Airlines (then the US's largest)