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Over 900,000 Israelis are unemployed, with 600,485 of them on unpaid leave

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
6,637 Israelis have registered as unemployed since Sunday, bringing the total to 942,678. Some 600,458 of those registered as unemployed are on unpaid leave. 
Since the day before Israel's second coronavirus lockdown, 213,828 Israelis have registered as unemployed, 72% of whom were registering for the second time or more.
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