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Ultra-Orthodox Jews study at a Yeshiva in the settlment of Modiin Illit on October 19, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
February 5, 2018, 10:43 pm
Study finds lower ultra-Orthodox male employment in Israel
Israel Democracy Institute says that after steady rise over several years, rate dropped by 1.4% in 2017
By AP and TOI staff
Eitan Regev
October 23, 2017, 3:41 pm
Eitan Regev
Get a degree, find a job? Not so fast
Too many colleges are turning out too many lawyers and accountants when Israel needs technicians
Tamar Friedman Wilson
September 4, 2017, 12:05 pm
Tamar Friedman Wilson
Working parents and affordable childcare
How Israeli workplace trends complicate a work/parent balance, even now that the school year has started
Israeli Bedouin women working at a Bezeq customer service center on July 27, 2015. The call center is located in a mosque, in the Arab town of Hura. The women have been employed through the Rayan employment center in Rahat. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 24, 2016, 7:04 pm
State of Arabs employment is ‘grim, alarming,’ Shapira says
Comptroller says government-level discrimination is crippling state’s own ‘ineffective’ integration efforts
By Tamar Pileggi
Illustrative photo of Israeli students at the Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year, October 18, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 16, 2016, 1:54 pm
Women better educated but earning less than men, report finds
Annual ‘Picture of the Nation’ dispatch finds wages have not increased to match rising food prices, students migrating away from religious schools
By Stuart Winer
Israeli Bedouin women working at a Bezeq customer service center on July 27, 2015. The call center is located in a mosque, in the Arab town of Hura. The women have been employed through the Rayan employment center in Rahat. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 8, 2016, 6:09 pm
Why barely 1 in 5 Israeli Arab women works, and how high-tech can fix that
In Arab cities, more girls than boys study technology, but then they drop away. Bringing in tech companies is one path toward reversing that trend
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox women working in the Malam Group IT company in the Haredi settlement of Beitar Illit. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 1, 2016, 8:02 am
As ultra-Orthodox women bring home the bacon, don’t say the F-word
A sharp rise in Haredi women’s employment rates is one development challenging limitations on women‘s roles within the family. Just don’t call it feminism
By Melanie Lidman
Haifa University President Amos Shapira (left) presents honorary Ph.D degrees to Shira and Jay Ruderman (center, second right) (Gil Hadani)
June 17, 2015, 7:15 pm
For business success, include the disabled, urge US philanthropists
From the workplace to the Jewish community center, inclusion has become an important value among young people, according to Jay and Shira Ruderman
By David Shamah
A Yaskawa robot in action (Photo credit: Courtesy)
April 1, 2015, 6:06 pm
Nothing to fear from robots, says Yaskawa Israel
Mechanization is here to stay, and the Japanese robotics giant’s Israeli rep is showing businesses how effective it can be
By David Shamah
Ultra-Orthodox men study toward professional degrees at Kemach, a Jerusalem-based organization that guides Haredim through study programs and job placement. (photo credit: Kemach/JTA)
February 15, 2015, 8:38 pm
OECD: Israel ‘slow but steady’ on Arab, ultra-Orthodox employment
The government is determined to raise productivity levels with a slew of programs to bring ‘peripheral populations’ into the workforce
By David Shamah
Gila Weinberg
February 10, 2015, 7:33 pm
Gila Weinberg
The wrong candidates – again
Like in politics, employers often ‘vote’ for an employee who promises a lot, but doesn’t deliver
A client seeks work at an unemployment office in Jerusalem (Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
December 29, 2014, 6:38 pm
Survey: Plenty of jobs in Israel, but not all are good ones
Unskilled workers have their choice of jobs but the skilled may have to hustle, an Israeli employment site says
By David Shamah
People walk by a homeless man sleeping on the street, in the center of Jerusalem, on November 10, 2013. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 21, 2014, 4:16 pm
For Israeli politicians, poverty is someone else’s problem
Now that 2 major reports have brought the economy back onto the agenda, will candidates finally address it seriously?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Young Jewish professionals participating in Impact Israel in New York. (Mark Von Holden)
November 19, 2014, 3:54 pm
NBN fair in New York pushes aliyah as employment opportunity
Although the US economy is showing signs of recovery, to young professionals saddled with student debt, Israel just may be a pot of gold
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 13, 2014, 9:15 pm
Employment rate among ultra-Orthodox women hits new high
Rise in haredi women in the workforce — now higher than overall female average — attributed to Sharon-era social security cuts
By TOI staff
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