Employment

Critics range from junior staff at tech companies and Israelis struggling to find work, to job placement agencies who even claim the plan's aim is to reduce salaries.

The government will grant work permits to foreign tech students, import tech experts, and encourage Jewish tech professionals to immigrate.

Job vacancies in Israel climbed to a new record of 137,000 in Israel in September but unemployment rose to 7.9%.

Teva has reached understandings at its Kfar Saba plant, in which 198 employees will be laid off, or will take early retirement by the end of 2021.

Some Israeli tech companies hire and train inexperienced tech workers and then demand large payments, if they leave within a few years.

Sparks Consulting Group finds that concerns about a brain drain of Israel's elite group of talented people are well founded.

As tech salaries spiral, human resources experts tell "Globes" that employees can be retained by factors not related to money.

Tech employees in Israel need only pay 25% capital gains tax on share options rather than the much higher income tax rate.

Globes and international business data company Statista are seeking Israel's best companies, in the opinion of their employees and their rivals' employees.

With a chronic shortage of talented employees, Israel's tech companies are investing in billboard ads to help fill their rapidly growing number of job vacancies.

Businesses are not meant to assume the role of the state. However, on the day after they should step up and try to make a difference, says Microsoft Israel R&D CEO Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk.