Shalom industrial park in 1995, he did not anticipate that he would become a pioneer in the fight for equal labor rights.
The industrial zone, just inside the occupied West Bank and next to Tulkarm city, was set up as part of the Oslo agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Its name translates as “buds of peace.”

[…] The firms rely on a 1960 Jordanian labor law that Jordan itself repealed in 1996. This is despite a 2007 Israeli high court ruling that all Palestinians working in Israel and settlements in the West Bank be contracted under Israeli law.
Judges also ruled that Israeli companies cannot discriminate on the basis of the employees’ nationality or use it as justification to hire them under different working conditions than Israeli employees.