Labor and Social Affairs Ministry

"Almost 70% of [building] sites do not report to us, they are not at all on our radar."

While parents of children with special needs were horrified by the report of the abuse and the response of the ministry, the truth is that few were surprised.

Some 15,000 requests to put pregnant women on unpaid leave have been submitted since the beginning of the pandemic; the annual average is only 1,000. "I can only handle a small number of complaints."

'We were all appalled by the sad cases of elderly people who passed away in their homes and nobody knew about it. We are doing everything we can to prevent such situations'

The total amount spent by the ministry will come to NIS 9 million.

This is not the first time the couple has encountered such issues, but on prior occasions there was no insistence on the matter.

As rockets fly, welfare institutions, public health officials issue recommendations.

While the country's unemployment rate is a "healthy" 4%, the report details considerable obstacles that still remain in the integration of Arab women and ultra-Orthodox men into the workforce.

We Code aims to recruit young people from diverse populations – Arab-Israelis, Ethiopians, people with disabilities, ultra-Orthodox- as well as from the social periphery aged 25-30.

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