Private sperm banks saw an increase in donation 15-30%, while public banks in hospitals saw a jump in donations of between 100-300%.
The eligibility period for thousands of young workers is currently scheduled to expire at the end of June.
A total of 1.06 million applications for unemployment assistance from the National Insurance Institute were submitted immediately prior to and during the coronavirus outbreak
The Finance Ministry prefers encouraging employment, rather than paying the unemployed. Chairman of the Histadrut stated that a solution must be found: "people need an income."
"He probably came to fill out unemployment forms and didn't want to stand in line."
'If some businesses could renew operations now, they cannot do so fully because Israel was in a rush to send all the workers on unpaid leave'
"Unfortunately, our forecasts materialized - we reached one million jobseekers in March alone."
After the Employment Service website crashed due to the high level of traffic, the government body said it had expanded its server capacity to handle increased demand.
Over 1,000 olim attended an employment fair organized by the Immigration and Absorption Ministry.
Regev noted that the faster a haredi community moves in to a city, the greater potential for societal tensions, because the original, non-haredi population has less time to adjust to the new reality.
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