Labor Minister Yigal Allon told the regular meeting of the Cabinet today that the job outlook in Israel was still bleak for the next five months and that the Government would have to provide work for another 10,000 jobless. However, he also predicted that at the end of the year, there would be a sharp decline in the number of unemployed workers.
He said the Government planned to spend about $60 million to provide the additional 10,000 jobs. Part of the money, he reported, would be used to speed up road building, hospital construction and other projects previously scheduled for subsequent years. The rest of the money will be used for relief work. He said that as of last week, the number totally unemployed was 16,750 while another 19,000 workers were on relief. These figures were understood to refer only to jobless workers registered in the labor exchanges. The Minister disclosed that his Ministry was sponsoring special crash courses to give new skills to workers and soldiers nearing release from military duty so that they could fit into new patterns of employment envisaged in the Government’s economic planning.
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