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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 626

workforce in Israel

Illustrative image of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) (Phonlamai iStock by Getty Images)
April 15, 2025, 8:06 pm
Israel tops list of countries with highest self-reported AI skills
Index of profiles by professional networking site LinkedIn also finds Israel ranks first in metric of female concentration in AI versus a global average of 87 countries
By Sharon Wrobel
This file photo taken on February 14, 2020, shows the US multinational technology and internet-related services company Google logo in Brussels. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)
January 18, 2024, 6:34 pm
Google said set to start laying off employees in Israel in coming days
The US tech giant employs about 2,000 people in Haifa and Tel Aviv, working across data mining and game theory teams, and other R&D activity, as well as sales and marketing
By Sharon Wrobel
Haifa's industrial area. (Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)
November 22, 2023, 5:12 pm
Worker absence due to war poses main hurdle for manufacturers – survey
Factories are resuming operations but are short-staffed due to mobilization of reserve soldiers and displacement of residents from communities along borders with Gaza and Lebanon
By Sharon Wrobel
A home destroyed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 in southern Israel's Kibbutz Kfar Aza is seen on October 15, 2023. (Edi Israel/Flash90)
November 21, 2023, 4:24 pm
War with Hamas costs NIS 1b a day, hitting economy harder than previous conflicts
Moody’s cuts 2023 growth forecast and expects economy to contract 1.5% in 2024, with 18% of Israel’s workforce absent during war
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: ultra-Orthodox boys. (Rishwanth Jayapaul/Flash90)
February 22, 2022, 6:26 pm
Majority of ultra-Orthodox men in Israel lack basic English skills – study
26% of ultra-Orthodox Israeli men don’t know English; 28% describe their English as ‘poor,’ and fewer are learning English in school than in the past
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Offices of the Jerusalem Venture Partners tech investment firm in Jerusalem, February 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
February 27, 2020, 12:34 am
High tech workforce growing but lacks skilled employees, report says
Israeli firms increasingly looking abroad to fill gaps, but should turn to junior workers and minorities, says annual survey by Start-Up Nation Central and Innovation Authority
By Luke Tress
Ilana Meskin
June 23, 2019, 3:57 pm
Ilana Meskin
Employers beware: the war for talent is back
In today’s thriving economy, there is a shortage of skills and experience, not a shortage of jobs; unemployment is at an all time low and employers can no longer call the shots
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox men walking in the rain and fog in Safed, December 18, 2018. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 8, 2019, 11:39 am
State watchdog gives Haredi colleges failing grade over sky-high dropout rates
The government has earmarked NIS 1.7 billion for higher education among ultra-Orthodox, but most students are women pursuing education degrees, despite an overabundance of teachers
By Marissa Newman
Yitzik Crombie, the CEO of Israeli start-up Bizmax, poses at the company's offices in Jerusalem, on November 21 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)
January 10, 2019, 9:49 pm
Kosher high-tech office lures Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox
Bizmax offers a shared workspace molded around the religious values its patrons live by and seek to work in
By Clothilde Mraffko
A young Israeli secular couple walks next to an ultra-Orthodox couple as the light rail goes by on Jaffa road in central Jerusalem on January 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
June 19, 2018, 6:14 pm
Knesset passes law giving secular workers a Shabbat break
Non-religious Jews can now refrain from work on the day of rest without being questioned about their beliefs
By Michael Bachner
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
A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 12, 2017, 1:14 pm
Bank Leumi to drop 500-600 employees by year’s end
Voluntary retirement plan is part of efficiency steps that have seen bank cut its workforce by 2,200 employees in 2012-2016
By Shoshanna Solomon
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, Jerusalem, July 17, 2016. (Alex Kolomoisky/Pool)
August 9, 2016, 10:41 am
Interior Ministry gives academic standing to religious studies
Men who hold rabbinic ordination or who studied Talmud will qualify for municipal jobs that demand college degrees
By Stuart Winer
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 3, 2016, 3:04 pm
Majority of ultra-Orthodox men now working
Steady rise in Haredi workforce participation hailed as having ‘historical implications’ for Israeli society
By Daniel Douek
Dov Lipman
September 2, 2015, 4:32 pm
Dov Lipman
Israel needs Sundays off
A proposal that sets 10 days a year aside for family, leisure, and cross-religious and cross-ethnic bonding
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