I did many searches using Startpage and could find nothing, so had to resort to Gulagle, and even with several searches could only find this one article about Israeli embassies closing today. Very odd.
Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attaches strike
Foreign and Defense Ministries unite in long-simmering dispute with Treasury over bid to retroactively cut envoys expense stipends; no consular services for Israelis abroad
All Israeli embassies and consulates around the world shut down early Wednesday as diplomats and military attaches went on strike over a long-simmering dispute with the Finance Ministry over expense stipends paid to envoys.
The move, coordinated by the Foreign Ministry, the Defense Ministry and the Histadrut Labor Federation, comes after the Treasury reportedly backtracked on previous understandings and said it would force the envoys to pay back thousands of dollars which they had been reimbursed for expenses.
The closure came into effect at 1 a.m on Wednesday morning Israel time.
[More at link, details kind of interesting; apparently this type of strike has happened before.]
Gulagle. Stealing that one.
And thanks for the great info.