Labor and Social Affairs Ministry

Israeli truckers fear foreign workers may overtake industry if bureaucracy goes unchecked

Representatives from various levels of the logistics and delivery industry claim that Israel has a severe shortage of truck drivers, while the Transportation and Labor Ministries claim otherwise.

|ByABRAHAM BLOCH
Truck and car on highway in front of stacks of shipping containers
A daycare teacher plays with children at a WIZO daycare center.

Israel's Knesset pushes to create daycare oversight authority after Jerusalem tragedy

The proposed bill aims to establish the Early Childhood Authority, a new government body within the Education Ministry.

|ByAVIHAI CHIIM
Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem. January 21, 2025.

Labor, Religious Services Ministries, to be transferred to Levin post-haredi party withdrawal

Justice Minister Levin will be temporarily appointed as minister of labor, religious services, and Jerusalem and Israel heritage, while Prime Minister Netanyahu will also become minister of interior

|ByYEHUDA SHLEZINGER
Teachers protest as they demand better pay and working conditions at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on May 14, 2025.

Number of workdays lost to strikes in Israel tripled over past year, Labor Ministry reveals

Teachers’ strikes made up 60% of 2024's walkouts, driving the biggest disruption in the public sector.

|ByYUVAL BAGNO

Social Services Ministry budgets NIS 190m. for early childhood education

Among the municipalities to receive the funds are Ashkelon, Binyamina-Givat Ada, Jerusalem and Haifa.

FEBRUARY 7, 2018ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
Children get close to the land on Tu Bishvat, 2005

Daycare center sign-up to begin early for 2018

Parents will now be able to register for the daycares as early as February, ensuring them ample time to request financial assistance

JANUARY 10, 2018ByLIDAR GRAVÉ-LAZI
A daycare in Israel

After protests, transportation stipend for the blind increases

Starting January 1, 2018, an increase of NIS 1.7 million will be added to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs budget in order to increase the monthly allowance.

NOVEMBER 1, 2017BySARAH LEVI
Some of the blind demonstrators protest at the Knesset yesterday over their current stipend of NIS 790 per month.