The administrators of Israel's court system dismissed complaints by striking court typists that they were working illegally to harm the interests of the typists by attmpting to hire substitutes, until the strike ends. "The right to strike is a basic right for all workers, but not an absolute right, and it must be measured against the rights of others.
"Israeli law does not necessarily forbid hiring substitute workers in place of strikers." In addition, the administrators said that they were not fazed by accusations that they were eavesdropping on workers' conversations, because "the recordings we are said to have made would stand the test of law, and do not damage the typists' right to strike."