Workers at the company that distributes oil products throughout Israel began a strike that could ground airlines and close power plants. Protesting government plans to split the state-owned Infrastructure and Energy Company into two firms, the workers blocked fuel supplies to Ben-Gurion Airport and the Israel Electric Corp.
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