Unemployment is rapidly deteriorating: The Employment Service reports today (Monday) that over the past weekend alone, 5,560 new job seekers were registered. The number of new job seekers since the beginning of the third closure, on December 27, 2020, reaches 150,159, of which 89,024 since the closure was tightened.
121,291 of all those enrolled in the employment service as job seekers have been expelled since the beginning of the third closure, and their share of all new job seekers is about 80.8%, while 28,868 of them have been fired or resigned and their rate stands at 19.2% of all applicants since the closure began.
A demonstration by the self-employed on Jaffa Road in Tel Aviv. Photo: Avshalom Shashoni
Teachers in the teaching, education and training industry are the main group among new job seekers since the start of the closure (26.9%). Since the start of the closure, 40,393 teaching, education and training workers have been registered as job seekers, 37,337 of them since the closure was tightened and the education system closed. 2,508 of them were registered during the past weekend alone – 45% of all registrants at the weekend.
The “expert teams of the crisis” call for combining the planning strategy for getting out of the corona crisis with dealing with and preparing for the climate crisis. The organization’s environmental team members – Dr. Karni Kriegel, Dr. Muhammad Allenbari, Dr. Abigail Fredman and Dr. Noam van der Haal, claim: Professionalism for the new unemployed in the field of renewable energies and support for welfare populations in dealing with energy poverty, in light of the expected increase in heat and cold waves and more. “
The four add: “Dealing with the climate crisis is one of the first steps declared by US President Joe Biden, who has pledged to make the issue a cornerstone of the Corona crisis recovery plan. For example, he called for the construction of half a million charging stations for electric cars, 1.5 million homes and energy-efficient public housing units and the establishment of a “civilian climate corps” that will implement climate and conservation projects. But in Israel, environmental issues and preparations for the climate crisis are far behind and on the margins of political discourse. ”