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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at his side, and other coalition ministers and MKs celebrate the passage of the state budget in the Knesset, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Analysis

Netanyahu’s fat man, thin man and the burden of the new state budget

As more funds are funnelled to the ultra-Orthodox community, other budgets for investment in high-tech are reduced; reforms for tackling high cost of living are suffering

May 24, 2023, 11:13 pm

Netanyahu’s fat man, thin man and the burden of the new state budget

As more funds are funnelled to the ultra-Orthodox community, other budgets for investment in high-tech are reduced; reforms for tackling high cost of living are suffering

By Sharon Wrobel

Workers in a startup (Vadim_Key; iStock by Getty Images)

May 16, 2023, 1:48 am

25% of tech firms plan layoffs after demand for workers halved in 2022 — report

New survey shows 17,000 open positions in high-tech industry at end of last year, down from 32,900; warns global recovery could bypass Israel if political uncertainty continues

By Sharon Wrobel

Ultra-Orthodox young women in the Adva training program, which aims to teach them with tech skill (Courtesy)

January 30, 2023, 3:09 pm

Women still only about a third of tech employees in Israel

New report by Power in Diversity also shows Arab and ultra-Orthodox participation rates in the tech workforce remain low

By Sharon Wrobel

Illustrative: An aerial view of Rishon Lezion, on December 17, 2019. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)

January 5, 2023, 12:59 pm

First of Zion: Rishon is Israel’s best city to live in, statistics bureau finds

Data shows highest quality life is available in the cities of central Israel

By Danielle Nagler

Israeli Lotem Benbenishti, 28, poses as she works on her new job collecting trash on the beach at the Peleg Nature reserve in the Mediterranean coastal city of Netanya on October 21, 2020. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)

November 12, 2020, 4:41 am

Amid pandemic, some Israelis find solace in forced career changes

After losing jobs in restaurants, tourism and industry, some are finding a new path working in nature, while others have turned to high-tech

By Jonah Mandel

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women work on computers in the Comax software company office in the central city of Holon near Tel Aviv on April 17, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA )

August 27, 2019, 3:50 pm

Tech employees account for 8.7% of workforce, Innovation Authority says

At mid-2019, the number of salaried employees in the tech sector reached 307,000; in 2017 tech employees made up 8.3% of the workforce

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli Bedouin women working at a Bezeq customer service center, located in a mosque, in the southern Arab town of Hura, July 27, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

February 18, 2019, 6:13 pm

Arab and Ethiopian women most disadvantaged in job market, survey finds

Some minority groups earn less than half the Israeli average; ultra-Orthodox men fare the best among minorities

By ToI Staff

Aharon Aharon, the head of the Israel Innovation Authority (Shoshanna Solomon/The Times of Israel)

December 6, 2018, 12:09 pm

2018 saw Israel edge competition, tech chief says, but others are ‘catching up’

Past 12 months look to have set new record for tech investments, says Israel Innovation Authority head, but global competition and workers shortage present challenges for the next

By Shoshanna Solomon

June 7, 2018, 2:37 pm

Robert Reichmann

The days of non-working ultra-Orthodox are over

Haredi employment is rising thanks to programs that bridge the gap between being trained and getting hired

The ruins of the Kibbutz Ein Gedi beach on January 3, 2017. Sinkholes forced the closure of the beach in 2015. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

April 15, 2018, 6:50 pm

Israel to pump nearly $120m into Dead Sea communities facing sinkholes

Grant, to be paid over four years, will be earmarked for tourism, transport, agriculture and research. ‘No short- or medium-term engineering solutions,’ says PMO

By Sue Surkes

January 17, 2018, 2:37 pm

Carl Peters

When aliyah means taking the graveyard shift

I didn’t realize that living the Israel dream would be an exercise in humility

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox women working at the Malam Group IT company in the settlement of Beitar Illit, August 19, 2009. (Nati Shohat/Flash90/File)

December 18, 2017, 12:14 am

Cabinet sets minimum quota of 7% public sector jobs for ultra-Orthodox

Over next three years, religious sector to gain greater representation in government work in effort to integrate community

By ToI Staff

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

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

January 11, 2017, 3:16 pm

Gila Weinberg

Finding a job: how to work the system

If you are in the market for a new job, you probably spend at least some of each day scanning job posts and submitting your CV; with so many online avenues for new jobs, it is possible to spend almost all your time doing just that