The level of unemployment in Israel was stabilized during the first half of 1967, and “will be gradually rolled back” in the year’s last six months, Labor Minister Yigal Allon declared here today.
By the end of this year, he said 22,000 new jobs will be created “through the natural increase of the labor force.” He said 32,593 unemployed were registered as jobless with the labor exchanges during the first week of August. Of that total. Mr. Allon reported. 21,000 were given work on job-relief projects. The unemployed for the first six months of 1967, he said, averaged 34,000.
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