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Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students learn at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva, in Rishon Lezion on June 11, 2025. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
February 10, 2026, 11:30 pm
By 2050, almost one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox, study indicates
Haredim constitute 23.5% of those eligible for military, which expected to rise to 40% by 2050, says Israel Democracy Institute; if Haredim don’t integrate, GDP could fall by 10%
By Rossella Tercatin
A Starbucks location is seen Tuesday, April 26, 2022 in Havertown, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
March 5, 2024, 7:47 pm
Mideast Starbucks franchisee firing 2,000 employees due to Gaza war boycott
Alshaya Group says it is reducing staff numbers because of ‘difficult trading conditions’ after pro-Palestinian activists targeted the brand
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Street appears almost completely empty due to a COVID-19 lockdown, March 30, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 1, 2020, 1:12 pm
For first time ever, more than a million Israelis are unemployed
National Employment Service says rate stands at 24.1%, capping worst month for Israel’s workforce since data has been recorded
By ToI Staff
A general view of closed stores on Jaffa Road in downtown Jerusalem on March 26, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 29, 2020, 11:23 am
Number of jobless Israelis nears 1 million, but rate of increase slows
Since beginning of March, 764,165 people registered for unemployment benefits, bringing rate to 22.15%; 32,577 signed up during weekend, 3 times fewer than a week ago
By ToI Staff
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
Illustrative: 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
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