Some 300,000 Israeli workers ended their five-day strike after getting a 1.5 percent wage increase. The deal between the Histadrut labor federation and Finance Ministry averted a threatened shutdown of Ben-Gurion Airport. The agreement does not affect Israeli schoolteachers, who have been striking for more than a week.
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