Israel’s Eilat Port faces layoffs amid Red Sea shipping crisis, union says

Half the workers at Israel's Eilat Port are at risk of losing their jobs after the seaport took a major financial hit due to the crisis in Red Sea shipping lanes, Israel's main labour federation said on Wednesday. Eilat sits on a northern tip of the Red Sea and was one of the first ports to be affected as shipping firms rerouted vessels to avoid attacks by Houthi militants in Yemen. The Histadrut labour federation, the umbrella organisation for hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, said port management has announced it intends to fire half of the 120 employees.