Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu created a council to fight growing unemployment. The move came after the latest statistics indicated that unemployment had reached 9.3 percent in May, with some 210,000 Israelis out of work. Israel’s Industrialists Association predicted that the rate could reach 10.5 percent next year, with 240,000 unemployed.
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