Israel strike, airports, business close on Monday

 A passenger pushes luggage carts in the arrivals hall at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport close to Tel Aviv 13 September 2010.Credit: Reuters/NIR Elias

JERUSALEM | Sunday, 6 November 2011 6: 11 EST are

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's main labor union plans a strike would closed, airports, ports, banks and the stock market begins to produce an agreement on the status of employees of contractors by work on Monday after talks with the Government.

The Histadrut Labor Federation, the umbrella organization for hundreds of thousands of public employees, said the strike at 0600 (0400 GMT) on Monday begin would, and would also trains, buses, universities, ministries and municipalities.

Israel Ben Gurion International Airport close to Tel Aviv closes at 0800 local time.

"Strikes are unlimited and only a court injunction, prevents" Ofer Eini, the head of the Histadrut, Israel Army Radio said on Sunday.

The Histadrut wants the Government to hire some 250,000 contract workers, the poor working conditions as civil workers on wage and salary lists Government.

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Histadrut entitled the planned strike, which travellers and commuters would be devastating.

"I believe that it is possible to responsible and equitable solution to the problem of temporary workers (in the agencies for work)," said Netanyahu, Army Radio.

"We need to bring a solution that is not the Israeli economy at a time of damage on a global shake-up in the economies of the world," he said. "There is no need to disrupt the lives of Israelis." "We must not risk what we have done with a lot of work."

Talks over the weekend not to a settlement, although Treasury officials agreed that the conditions of employment of contract workers must improve.

Israeli Labour Court is to decide whether to issue an injunction against a strike later on Sunday.

A strike would result that hundreds of millions of shekels damage per day for the economy.

($ 1 = 3. 67 Shekels)

(Reporting by Steven Scheer;) (Editing by Rosalind Russell)

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United States, Israel talk hard before the nuclear Iran report

n">(Reuters) - a senior official who U.S. military said on Friday Iran had become the greatest threat to the United States and Israel's President said the military option to stop the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons was closer.

In Tehran, seizure of US embassy burned thousands students U.S. flags and pictures of President Barack Obama in a rally on the anniversary of the 1979.

Both sides have stepped up their rhetoric before the expected release next week of a report from the UN Atomic watchdog. Sources, which provides information on the document said that it would support the allegations, the Iran built a large steel container could be used for the carrying out of tests with explosives, nuclear weapons.

"The greatest threat to the United States and our interests, and for our friends... comes in the Center and Iran,", said the U.S. military official, addressing a forum in Washington. The official could not be identified the event provided reporters.

The official said that he did not believe, wanted, that is a Iran to provoke conflict, and that he did not know if the Islamic Member States decide to build a nuclear weapon.

President Shimon Peres was in Israel by two news channel asked whether events in the direction of a military option rather than a diplomatic move. He replied: "I do believe, I appreciate that intelligence services of all these countries are looking on the ticking clock, warning heads of State and Government, that it doesn't have much time left."

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, on the occasion of a G20 Summit, the world leader in France, said: "Iran behavior and obsessional desire to acquire nuclear military (function) is contrary to all international rules." ... When Israel's existence were under threat, France would not idly.

US QUOTED DIPLOMATIC FOCUS

Iran's Islamic rulers, who say that Israel deny any right to exist, Tehran seeks nuclear weapons and have be warned that they respond to attacks, through an attack on Israel and the United States interests in the Gulf.

Both the United States and Israel, which largely have only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East as, have repeatedly said that all options-including military melee-in their efforts to stop the Iran, to keep open to a nuclear power.

But during speculation about an imminent attack on the nuclear facilities of Iran has heated and cooled, several times in recent years, economic pressure by the United Nations and other bodies to put on sanctions, was the thrust of US policy on the Iran has.

This attitude was the Pentagon reiterated on Friday spokesman George little, who said, "makes the tools of the national, which we are currently busy, the focus is on diplomatic and economic.".

China, which only reluctantly supported UN Security Council sanctions against the Iran along with Russia, said it against the threat of force, but urged the Iran to be flexible about its nuclear program to show.

Analysts say Iran, a major oil exporter, could any attack by the Strait of Hormuz close retribution of the waterway, where about 40 percent of all traded übergibt-- probably blind controls crude oil prices and provide a major setback for the weak global economy. (Reporting by Phil Stewart Washington, Ramin Mostafavi in Tehran, Fredrik Dahl in Vienna, Maayan Ljubel in Jerusalem, Ralph Boulton in Cannes, France, and Ben Blanchard in Beijing;) Written by Mohammad Zargham. (Editing by Peter Cooney)

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