Israel’s Labor Minister Reports Unemployment Has Passed Peak, Sees Further Improvement

Labor Minister Yigal Allon told Parliament today that unemployment in Israel had passed its peak, and that the downward trend was expected to continue. Mr. Allon, who was replying to questions during a debate on the employment situation, reported that employment in the occupied West Bank region was no different than it was before the June war. There are unemployed, however, in the Gaza Strip and in the Sinai, he said, where many residents had been in the pay of the Egyptian army and the Egyptian Labor Ministry before the war.