Israel
By Shimon B. Lifkin
YERUSHALAYIM -
Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 3:55 pm | ו אדר תשפ א
Israel’s National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) earlier this year paid out almost a billion shekels in unemployment benefits to people who weren’t eligible, and now is trying to get the money back.
Payments averaging NIS 2,400 were sent to about 382,000 people who had gone back to work and were no longer entitled to the benefits, altogether about 920 million shekels, Bituach Leumi said. The payouts were made in the first months of the pandemic when large numbers of Israelis about a million at its peak were thrown out of work by state-ordered shutdowns.
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How to move to Israel while working remotely for a US employer February 17, 2021 3:06 pm Some immigrants to Israel with U.S.-based employers find places outside the home to work, including a co-working space run by Nefesh B Nefesh in Tel Aviv. Before the pandemic hit, the co-working hub operated without social distancing restrictions. (Nefesh B Nefesh)
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It turns out the coronavirus pandemic has had an unexpected silver lining for Americans contemplating making aliyah: the normalization of working remotely.
To be sure, the technology that makes it possible in certain instances to work an American job while living in Israel has existed for years. But for many U.S. employers, the idea of allowing someone to move their job overseas for personal reasons was a nonstarter. Then came the COVID era and with it the massive shift to remote work.
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Israel has a problem. Well obviously, many problems and many solutions, but this is one problem I’m not so sure is being addressed.
During this entire pandemic, the term Haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, has come up so many times in Israeli news, English news in Israel, and news abroad. Specifically, in regards to the number of Haredim who are not keeping the government-imposed guidelines about preventing the spread of the coronavirus, the number of Haredim getting sick with the virus, or, as reported today, the overrepresentation of Haredim in the number of deaths from coronavirus when compared with the mainstream Israeli population.