A 11-day strike by Israel’s Foreign Ministry workers that closed 103 embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions around the world, and caused the postponement or cancellation of visits by several world leaders and trips by Israeli officials, ended on Wednesday as the Finance Ministry and the workers committee signed a labor agreement.

“We are happy that the State of Israel understood the difficulties Israel’s fighters abroad need to deal with, and are sorry for the needless hardships caused. Tomorrow Israel’s fighters abroad will return to serve on Israel’s global front lines,” the committee said.

The strike was the first of its kind in the history of the State of Israel.

It was the culmination of a long labor dispute over salaries and work conditions for diplomats serving at the ministry in Jerusalem and abroad.

According to the workers committee, the agreement includes “important solutions for some of the problems facing the foreign service.”

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman welcomed the end of the strike. He said the document signed was “a good agreement” that would “create a new work model that provides for the professional needs of the Foreign Ministry, and an economic model that provides for the needs of the workers at all pay grades in the ministry.”

He regretted that this came about only after causing harm to the wider public, which suffered from the strike.

Under the collective agreement, diplomat’s salaries will be adjusted according to the cost of living in the country in which they are working. Also, there will be compensation for spouses of diplomats for loss of work in their field and the Foreign Ministry will help pay for the education of foreign diplomats’ children.