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Some 400,000 people in Israel do not currently have work as a result of coronavirus closures, a survey conducted by Israel s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) revealed yesterday. The CBS repor. ....
3 shares A ruined Likud campaign poster showing Benjamin Netanyahu s face covered by 1,000,000 unemployed in Tel Aviv on March 21, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90) Israel’s unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent in March from 14% in February, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced Wednesday, as the country continues to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic following widespread vaccination. Based on the government’s 2020 economic relief package passed last July, once Israel’s unemployment rate falls below 10%, unemployment benefits are to be cut to 90%. The cut should come into effect in a month, on May 21. However, Finance Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday he had instructed Meir Spiegler, Director-General of the National Insurance Institute, not to reduce unemployment benefits until June 12. ....
Rabbi Paysach Freedman cuts red tape and opens doors for Anglos in Israel Photos: Eli Cobin I f there is a geographical center to Jerusalem’s sprawling English-speaking yeshivah and kollel life, it’s probably Givat Moshe, a neighborhood abustle with avreichim and yeshivos a short journey to Belz one way, up the road from the Mir empire another, and just over the junction from the American strongholds of Ramat Eshkol and Maalot Dafna. Better known by its municipal map allocation as Gush Shmonim (“Bloc 80”), a more fitting moniker would be Kollel Mile. And that’s why crossing the threshold of Rabbi Paysach Freedman’s office from the heimish world beyond feels a bit like a disconnect. The mahogany desk, wall-mounted flat-screen, and Rabbi Freedman’s own monogrammed shirt-cuffs are not quite C-suite. But they’re definitely more boardroom than Bar Ilan, the main thoroughfare down the road. ....
Knesset Approves Full COVID-19 Maternity Benefits jerusalemonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jerusalemonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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. ....