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Sunday, April 12, 2020
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Sunday, April 12, 2020
Unemployment rate rockets above 25 percent
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIsrael’s unemployment rate has reached 25.8 percent after 6,693 new job-seekers registered in the last day, a jump over the 5,713 who registered Tuesday, the last business day before the Passover holiday.
Over 935,000 Israelis have registered as job-seekers since the start or March, the vast majority of them after being placed on unpaid leave due to the coronavirus crisis.
Earlier in the day, Joint List MK Aida Touma-Salomon petitioned the High Court against an emergency regulation that allows employers to place pregnant women on unpaid leave during the crisis, her party said in a statement.
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