More than a third of the Arab work force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were employed in Israel during 1984, mainly in construction and agriculture, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today.
According to the report, an average of 90,000 workers a week from the territories commuted to jobs in Israel last year, an increase over the 88,000 per week average in 1983. They represented 37 percent of the total work force of 248,000 in the territories. The West Bank supplied 50,000 and 40,000 came from the Gaza Strip. Of those numbers, 44,000 Arabs were employed on construction jobs in Israel, the same as in 1983, and 13,000 worked in agriculture.
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