Employment
Is Israel prepared for 330,000 foreign workers?
Workers from abroad have taken the place of Palestinians but employers are not always providing the housing conditions and other services the law requires, while government enforcement is lacking.
National Insurance Institute heading for disaster
The Ministry of Finance wants the unemployed, students and yeshiva students to pay more but that won’t cover an annual deficit expected to swell to NIS 18 billion by 2030 and NIS 48 billion by 2050.
WSC Sports to lay off over 60 employees
The Israeli company, which provides systems for automatically creating short highlight clips of matches and distributing them to social media, will dismiss 10% of employees.
Sharp rise in tech sector job seekers
The Israeli Employment Service says that since 2023, the number of job seekers with five to eight years of experience in the tech sector has risen 138% and insists AI is not to blame.
Tech layoffs are not all because of AI
34,454 tech employees lost their jobs over the past month in Israel. Companies are blaming AI and the strength of the shekel against the weakening US dollar, but that’s not the full picture.
Wix CEO blames strong shekel for layoffs
In confirming that the company is laying off 20% of employees, Avishai Abrahami wrote, “A very meaningful portion of our costs are shekel-denominated, while our revenue is largely dollar-denominated.”