"No One Cares About Israel's Marginalized Construction Workers", 15 December 2015

“A 30-year-old construction worker was killed this morning when he fell from a height at a building site on Adanei Paz Street in Hadera’s Givat Olga neighborhood.” This short news item, published on an Internet news site, was presumably copied word for word from the Magen David Adom ambulance service’s press release. That was almost certainly the last time you encountered any information about the death of an anonymous worker. But it was the 25th news item of this sort since the start of the year. The thousands injured in construction accidents usually don’t receive even this minimal level of media and public attention. Every year, about 30 construction workers are killed in Israel, representing about half of all those killed in work accidents. The National Insurance Institute report about 6,000 cases of construction workers being injured, and the true number is higher...