Labor and Social Affairs Ministry

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
Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem. January 21, 2025.
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
Jewish yeshiva students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva, in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024.

Daycare subsidies for children of military-age yeshiva students officially ends

The ending of the program will be a financial blow to some 7,000 haredi families.

|ByELIAV BREUER
An Israeli flag flutters near the logo of Teva Tech which is part of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries in Neot Hovav, southern Israel December 14, 2017.

Corruption investigation opened into Teva following employee's complaint

The employee who submitted the complaint requested to be recognized as a whistleblower.  

|ByBINI ASCHKENASY, AVIHAI CHIIM

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.