Israel’s unemployment rate is expected to remain at about 8.7 percent next year, with the number of jobless at some 206,000, according to the proposed budget the finance minister is due to present to the government later this week. Just the same, Avraham Shochat is projecting growth in the economy during the second half of next year.
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