Our Values
Climate Change
Environmental Justice is Employment Justice
In the last decade, the climate crisis has transformed from a distant threat into a daily reality – with dramatic impacts on health, economy, and employment. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, and rising sea levels are changing the face of work, affecting employment conditions, worker safety, work productivity, and earning capacity.
The Foundation works to promote a deep understanding of the connection between climate and labor – while encouraging policies that integrate emission reduction, adaptation to the crisis, and the creation of green jobs. Particularly in sectors such as agriculture, industry, and services, the Foundation strives to ensure that workers have protection, access to appropriate equipment, safe working conditions, and the ability to organize and demand systemic solutions.
We believe that the climate crisis is also an opportunity to rebuild local economies, lead environmental innovation, and place the working individual at the center of change.
Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence
Workers' Rights in an Era of Technological Change
The digital revolution poses an enormous challenge to the world of work. Digital platforms, remote work, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic management have changed the structure of labor relations, blurred boundaries, and raised new questions of responsibility, oversight, and rights.
The Foundation deeply examines the effects of these trends – both for self-employed and salaried workers – and promotes innovative proposals to ensure that technological change benefits workers, rather than weakening them.
Among other things, the Foundation addresses questions such as:
- How do we ensure that online platforms provide workers with social protection?
- How do we reduce the misuse of algorithms for managing employees?
- How can employee participation be enshrined even in global technology corporations?
- What are the implications of artificial intelligence on knowledge-intensive professions, on labor agreements, on recruitment, dismissals, and representation rights?
We believe that, precisely in an era where technology replaces human interaction, it is crucial to ensure collective protection mechanisms, transparency, and public oversight.
Conclusion
The Peretz Naphtali Foundation operates from a holistic vision for a fair, stable, and renewing world of work – a world where workers are not
perceived as a disposable resource, but as significant partners in shaping the future. Whether it concerns climate, technology, or democracy – the Foundation views every challenge as an opportunity to promote an egalitarian, responsible, and respectful society.
Employee Participation
Industrial Democracy as a Basis for Sustainable Growth
In a world where labor relations are becoming dynamic and complex, employee participation is an essential condition for a healthy balance between capital and labor. Genuine participation gives employees a voice, involvement, and ownership – not only over their work environment but also over the future of the organization and the society in which they live.
The Foundation promotes principles of economic democracy, including:
- Developing mechanisms for employee participation in decision-making
- Encouraging active employee representation in management bodies
- Strengthening collective agreements as a basis for promoting rights
Encouraging an organizational culture based on dialogue, transparency, and shared responsibility.
Studies repeatedly show that employee participation increases productivity, innovation, and quality of life at work – and even contributes to economic stability and the organization’s long-term survival. We see it not only as a management tool but as a moral and ethical principle.
Fritz Naphtali
Peretz (Fritz) Naphtali was a Jewish economist, journalist, and public figure born in Germany in 1888. He played a prominent role in both the Zionist movement in Germany and the economic and political life of pre-state and early statehood Israel.
In Germany, Naphtali published extensively on economic issues prior to World War I, headed the Economic Research Institute of the trade unions from 1926, and was active in the Zionist movement from 1925, serving on the executive of the Zionist Federation of Germany and as a delegate to the Zionist Congress in 1931.