April showed a sharp increase in the number of unemployed in Israel, the Labor Ministry’s employment service reported today. During the month, a spokesman for the service said, 35,000 job seekers had registered. Without citing comparative figures, the spokesman said the April totals represented a sharp rise over the corresponding figures for March, as well as an increase ever the corresponding period in 1965.
Meanwhile Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir reported today that absenteeism among workers has dropped by more than 50 percent since the rise in unemployment. He said a related development was a drop last month in the foreign trade deficit. He recommended that strenuous efforts should be made to cope with the joblessness problem, but said that Israel was far from a dangerous situation in that respect.
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