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By Ryan Torok
Jewish Journal Staff Writer
Dissatisfied with its wages and working conditions, Israel’s diplomatic corps has been on strike for more than two weeks, and the ramifications of the labor sanctions are being felt even in Los Angeles.
“We’re in an official labor dispute. We’re doing most of our work internally right now. We can’t provide services to the community, unless it’s life-or-death matters. We’re very curtailed [in] what we can do right now,” Israel’s Consul General in Los Angeles David Siegel said in a recent interview at the local consulate.
Tasks that the foreign ministry has not been handling under the strike include handling official visits of state leaders, issuing visas and more. Siegel could not be part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Los Angeles earlier this month because of the strike.
