Histadrut Secretary General Yeruham Meshel warned yesterday that unemployment in Israel could reach 70,000 by the end of 1976 unless the government takes urgent measures to find jobs and to increase investments that would create more jobs. Meshel also warned that Israel faced serious social unrest if the poorer classes feel the wealthier people are not bearing their fair share of the economic burden.
Meshel contended that the government was not doing all it could to equalize the tax burden and charged that many affluent persons were not paying the proper amount of taxes. The Histadrut official appeared on the radio “Interview of the Month” program. He said there was no way to avoid unemployment this year but maintained that the government could nevertheless find “natural jobs” for many and thus prevent a drastic rise in unemployment. He said there were 20,000 “job-seekers” in Israel and “several thousand” unemployed.
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