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Thursday, March 26, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Unemployment rate in Israel passes 20 percent
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe unemployment rate in Israel reaches 20.4 percent, as the Employment Service says some 39,000 people have registered as unemployed since yesterday.
Since the start of the month, 690,055 have filed as unemployed, 90 percent of them workers who were put on leave without pay.
Cumulatively, there are now nearly 850,000 unemployed people in Israel.
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