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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
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
Entrepreneurs work at a Tel Aviv area incubator (Photo credit: Courtesy)
From the WebJune 10, 2015, 9:02 am
Geek shortage stymies Israel’s tech boom
Among the top tech firms and positions, good workers are hard to find – and keep
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