This came in a statement issued by the ministry on Thursday, a month after the announcement of unemployment data in the Israeli market amounting to 3.1 percent of the total workforce.
The ministry stated that there are 760,000 Israeli workers, or about 18 percent of the workforce, who are not working at the present time, for three reasons.
The three reasons – according to the ministry – are that Israeli workers and employees serve as reserve forces in the army, live in the vicinity of Gaza, or stay at home with their children.
Last month, Israel summoned approximately 350,000 reserve soldiers, who are employees working in the Israeli economy, which today faces the specter of entering a recession.
The data does not include numbers for Palestinian workers in Israel, who number approximately 140,000 employees, according to data from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
For 27 days, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the destruction of entire residential neighborhoods and the killing of thousands of Palestinians, most of them civilians, and caused a catastrophic humanitarian situation, according to warnings issued by international institutions.
Since the outbreak of the war, Israel has cut off supplies of water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel to the residents of Gaza, who are about 2.3 million Palestinians who already suffer from extremely deteriorating conditions. As a result of an ongoing Israeli siege since the Hamas movement won the legislative elections in 2006.
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