"I ordered the immediate halt of takeoffs at the airport," the head of the workers' union at Ben Gurion Airport, Pinchas Idan said in a statement, without giving further details.
The move came minutes after the head of the Histadrut labor federation Arnon Bar-David declared a "historic" labor strike in an attempt to "stop the madness" of the government’s controversial judicial overhaul.
Bar-David said the strike will begin today if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not declare an end to the overhaul.
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