Unemployment

West Bank employment rebounds after Oct. 7 drop, but wages, protection remain weak, PCBS data shows

The majority of Palestinians, 680,000, were employed in the local market, an increase of around 27,000 workers from the first quarter.

 PALESTA street vendor arranges his stand next to an election campaign banner showing candidates for the Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorates ahead of municipal elections, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 14, 2026.
High-tech office complex

Dramatic split: The new map of upheavals in Israeli tech

Senior executives being fired

Visa lays off dozens of senior executives, including some with salaries near $500k

Thousands of laid-off employees

Just after presenting record profits: Another giant fires thousands of employees


The omission that will cost the state tens of billions

AI is pushing workers 50+ out of the job market. With the state refusing to invest in retraining, it will pay heavily in benefits and lost revenue.

Illustration: Using AI at work

Elections Committee, Employment Service announce effort to hire thousands of election personnel

Hiring for positions such as polling site staff, technical support workers, logistics personnel, and a variety of others will begin in the next week, according to a joint statement.

Acting Director General of the Central Elections Committee, Attorney Din Livne, pictured with Director General of the Employment Service, Inbal Mashash.

Mobileye stock plummets following Amnon Shashua’s departure

Mobileye stock fell 15% after founder and CEO Prof. Amnon Shashua announced his resignation, despite the company reporting improved profitability.

Prof. Amnon Shashua

AI layoffs mount across Israeli tech companies amid software sector bloodbath

The development of AI in recent years has led to situations where human work is replaced by AI, or AI can do the same job faster or at a lower cost

A businessman is seen working alongside a team of robots in this illustrative image of artificial intelligence.

AI spending spree hits $600b as Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund boom

Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.

Larry Ellison, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Oracle

monday.com to cut 20% of global workforce, more than 600 employees to be laid off

Israeli tech giant monday.com announced a major organizational restructuring that will see 620 employees leave the company worldwide as it shifts focus toward an AI-based work platform.

monday.com's co-CEOs, Roy Mann and Eran Zinman

Relocate or resign: Samsung gives hundreds of US employees an ultimatum

Samsung is relocating its US headquarters from New Jersey to Texas, requiring hundreds of employees to either move more than 2,000 kilometers with the company or leave their jobs.

Samsung

The labor market has not yet recovered from the war

The labor market continues to recover, but the road to the pre–war routine is still long: There were 169,000 job seekers in June.

The waiters and gardeners returned, the high-tech workers stayed home. Job fair

Meta sued: AI helped choose whom to lay off, but missed an important detail

A total of 26 employees claim that AI systems were utilized by Meta to rank staff ahead of a wave of layoffs, failing to distinguish between a lack of productivity and an approved absence.

Mark Zuckerberg

The dirty trick behind the massive tech layoffs

CEOs are blaming the massive waves of layoffs on AI implementation, but real data proves exactly the opposite: Companies that adopted AI with high intensity increased their workforce by 10%.

Mark Zuckerberg