Israeli embassies around the world have been instructed by a workers' union to join the strikes, in a letter seen by Reuters news agency reported.
A source in one Israeli embassy, who didn't want to be named, confirmed the report. They said that staff in embassies and consulates worldwide would decide whether they would join the strike or not.
According to Reuters, the letter said Foreign Ministry activities in the country and abroad would be limited to emergency services.
The web page of the Israeli Embassy in Nepal has the words "on strike" written on it.
Here inside the Israeli parliament politicians are hurrying between the chamber and their political faction meetings.
The Labor party leader Merav Michaeli just told a gathering of her MPs they won’t budge on their opposition until all the highly controversial legislation is scrapped completely - not just postponed.
I put it to put it to her that this didn’t sound much like compromise - doesn’t her party have a duty to dial it down given the scale of chaos in the country? “There can be no compromise over democracy,” she said. “We are one vote away from dictatorship”.
A big screen outside the chamber shows which MPs are in the building - two faces are greyed out, those of Benjamin Netanyahu and his far right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who says he’ll quit if the legislation is stopped. The two men have been in talks in the prime minister’s office a few hundred yards from here.
Now Netanyahu is having to grapple for his survival with the extremist forces he brought into his coalition. The stalling of Netanyahu’s live tv address suggests there is still no decisive outcome.
Right now Israelis are watching society close down around them hour by hour.
When the country’s biggest trade union announced a strike this morning the first impact was felt at Ben Gurion airport, where departing flights were quickly halted. That was followed by shops and banks shutting their doors and universities cancelling lectures.
Israel’s Medical Association says hospitals won’t be working fully and will only provide emergency care, even regional and local councils have been closed.
As noisy demonstrations continue up and down the country the protesters aim to paralyse the country’s services, and force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into abandoning his government’s judicial reform.
As we've been reporting, anti-government protests have swept the streets of Israel. And inside the Knesset - Israel's parliament - opposition politicians have expressed their fury towards the government's judicial reform plans.
Simcha Rothman - chairman of the Israeli parliament's law committee - was attacked by parliamentarians this morning, who described the reform as a radical takeover of the state of Israel.
Rothman is a key architect of the Netanyahu government's controversial legal reforms aimed at overhauling the country's judicial system.
"Shame! Shame!" was cried out and accusations were made comparing it to militant Islamist groups: "This is a hostile takeover of the state of Israel. No need for Hamas, no need for Hezbollah," one lawmaker was heard saying.
"The law is balanced and good for Israel," Rothman said in response.
Crowds of protesters flooded the streets of Israel on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defence minister, who had spoken out against plans to overhaul the justice system.
For weeks, huge protests have erupted over the government's reform plans. Opponents say the reforms will severely undermine the country's democracy.
