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Saturday, May 2, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, May 2, 2020
Self-employed workers and small business owners protest nationwide
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDemonstrations are taking place this evening in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Haifa, Kafr Qasim and Eilat against what self-employed workers and small business owners have deemed as the government’s insufficient economic response to the pandemic, Channel 12 reports.
The government has established a special fund for small businesses and self-employed loans worth NIS 80 billion. It has received 48,000 applications for NIS 31 billion in loan requests, but only 14,500 of the applications have been accepted and only NIS 4.6 billion has been distributed, according to Channel 12.
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