Labor Minister Joseph Almogi told the Knesset yesterday that nobody in Israel is deprived of a livelihood for refusing to work on the Sabbath. He asserted that of 750,000 workers in the country only 8,500 were required to work on Saturdays. Almogi was replying to Dr. Yehuda Ben Meir of the National Religious Party who had placed on the Knesset agenda the question of whether or not a Sabbath observer should be deprived of a livelihood. The issue was brought up as a result of a recent report that a Jewish immigrant from Soviet Georgia had lost his job at Lydda Airport for refusing to work on Saturdays. Histadrut which investigated the charge found there was no basis for the worker’s claim.
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