Israel will employ more Arab workers from the Gaza Strip, Minister of Labor Yosef Almogi reported to the Knesset yesterday. Among them, he said, will be 1,000 skilled building workers. Additional training centers being established in the Gaza Strip will teach skills to some 2,500 Arab workers in the coming year, he said.
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