Sanctions have ended at Dead Sea Works and potash is now being shipped from the plant at Sdom. This follows an agreement reached at the Beer Sheba Labor Court whereby Israel Chemicals Ltd. agreed to withdraw the dismissal notices sent to 134 workers at Dead Sea Works.
ICL is to return to the negotiating table for intensive talks with the union over a proposed reorganization at ICL.
Haifa Chemicals, which shut down its operations at its plants in Haifa and Mishor Rotem due to a lack of potash supplies, announced that production would resume at both plants by the end of today. A Haifa spokesman said that production in recent weeks had been impacted by the sanctions but that the company was able to supply customers abroad with potassium nitrate from existing inventories.