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Sunday, June 7, 2020
More than 300,000 Israelis have gone back to work as country reopens
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Employment Service says in a statement that more than 300,000 Israelis have gone back to work after temporarily losing their jobs due to the coronavirus crisis.
However, more than 110,000 new people have registered as unemployed since the government started to roll back restrictions, the statement says.
In total, the lockdown forced by the COVID-19 outbreak caused more than a million Israelis to lose their jobs and the unemployment rate to climb from 4 percent to 26%.
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