About 1.5 million children will remain at home again this morning, after another meeting between the Histadrut and the Ministry of Finance ended without results. The main difference: the Ministry of Finance agreed on a starting salary of NIS 8,600 for beginning teachers, while the Histadrut demands a salary of NIS 10,000 as a starting point. 

Negotiations for the renewal of the teachers 'salary agreement, which ended about two years ago, have been taking place for the past six months between representatives of the Ministries of Finance and Education and the Teachers' Union. In another attempt to reach an agreement, the secretary-general of the Teachers' Union, Yaffa Ben-David, met last night with the salary commissioner at the Ministry of Finance, Kobi Bar-Natan.