Arnon Bar-David

Arnon Bar-David
Born	1957 (age 64–65)

Arnon Bar-David (born 1957) is an Israeli trade unionist and civil servant. He is the Chairman of the Histadrut since March 2019.

Biography[]

Arnon Bar-David's father worked in the water plant of the City of Tel Aviv. He served in the IDF as a company commander in the Armored Corps. He was a coordinator of the Hebrew Scouts and a department manager in the Education Administration of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality.

Trade union career[]

Bar-David served for more than a decade as Union Chairman of the City of Tel Aviv-Yafo, and from 2006 to 2019 he was elected as the Chairman of the Union of Clerical and Public Service Employees of the Histadrut.

In March 2019, after Avi Nissenkorn joined the Blue and White list and resigned as Chairman of the Histadrut, Bar-David was elected by the Histadrut body of representatives to the post of chairman of the Histadrut.^[1][2]

One of his first acts after he took office was the closure of the Davar Rishon website, which criticized his entry into the post, his predecessor Nissenkorn and Moshe Kahlon.^[3] On May 1, an alternative news site went live.

COVID19[]

Bar-David, a vocal critic of the IsraelI government's economic response to the COVID-19 crisis, warned that Israel stands on the verge of an “economic Yom Kippur War.” Bar David repeatedly called on authorities to release cash to keep struggling businesses afloat.^[4]

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