Israel unemployment

Israeli unemployment rates rising in hi-tech with the advancement of artificial intelligence

Inbal Mashash, director general of the Israel Employment Service, spoke on Tuesday with Anat Davidov on the program 'Where the Money Is' and addressed the worrying trend.

Tech layoffs are the key to change in education in Israel
People looking for work as unemployment rises

Israeli employment rates dropped in May, Central Bureau of Statistics labor force survey reveals

Einbal Mashash, CEO of the Employment Service

Israel's youth labor force participation rate declines as gender gap narrows

 Worker installing scaffolding on building.

War results in 50% business decline for Israel's self-employed, survey finds


Hundreds of thousands will not receive unemployment benefits for June

The Finance Ministry prefers encouraging employment, rather than paying the unemployed. Chairman of the Histadrut stated that a solution must be found: "people need an income."

Histadrut labor federation chairman Arnon Bar-David

Fox found on second floor window of national insurance offices

"He probably came to fill out unemployment forms and didn't want to stand in line."

Fox is seen running Golan Heights, Israel

Unemployment response 'greatly harming' business recovery

'If some businesses could renew operations now, they cannot do so fully because Israel was in a rush to send all the workers on unpaid leave'

A man wearing a mask walks inside a shopping centre after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government announced that malls, hotels, restaurants and theaters will shut down from Sunday, in an escalation of precautionary measures against coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 15, 2020

Israeli unemployment exceeds one million: 24.4% of workforce

"Unfortunately, our forecasts materialized - we reached one million jobseekers in March alone."

A man walks in an alley inside Jerusalem's Old CIty as shops are closed amid coronavirus restrictions in the walled Old City March 27, 2020

New unemployment benefit claimants continue to soar

After the Employment Service website crashed due to the high level of traffic, the government body said it had expanded its server capacity to handle increased demand.

A woman uses an ATM at a branch of Israel Discount Bank in Tel Aviv, Israel

Olim struggle to find work as immigrant employment fair kicks off

Over 1,000 olim attended an employment fair organized by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry.

Olim attend an employment fair especially for their community.

Ultra-Orthodox moving to periphery, presaging increased societal tension

Regev noted that the faster a haredi community moves in to a city, the greater potential for societal tensions, because the original, non-haredi population has less time to adjust to the new reality.

haredim working 311

Diversity in the workplace

Geographical distance, low representation in higher education and gaps in formal education – can all be advantages when given an equal opportunity.

The Bnei Brak Employment Center

Employment integration...

... and the Jerusalem intifada.

Recipients of unemployment benefits and income support in Jerusalem, 2010-2015

Employment population ratios

Employment-population ratio in Israel and in large cities, 2015