Unemployment
The labor market has not yet recovered from the war
The labor market continues to recover, but the road to the pre–war routine is still long: There were 169,000 job seekers in June.
Meta sued: AI helped choose whom to lay off, but missed an important detail
The dirty trick behind the massive tech layoffs
Israeli unemployment rates rising in hi-tech with the advancement of artificial intelligence
Severe report: Historical peak in the number of unemployed tech workers
The Employment Service links the historic unemployment surge to AI, but experts blame downsizings on high interest rates, a weak dollar, and past over-hiring by companies.
Israeli employment rates dropped in May, Central Bureau of Statistics labor force survey reveals
According to the CBS Labor Force Survey Data for May 2026, a total of 4,469,000 Israelis were considered in the workforce (61.6%), of whom 126,500 (2.8%) were unemployed.
Working from home? You are at high risk of layoffs
While everyone is afraid that AI will take their jobs, new data from Gallup points precisely to another group that stands out among those laid off: Employees who worked fully remotely.
Tech workers laid off and collapsing under the mortgage burden
Crash course: The AI and the dollar are emptying the tech sector, and mortgages are threatening those laid off.
After Wix: Elementor fires about 30% of its employees
Only a month after the massive cuts at Wix, the website development company Elementor joins the wave and will part ways with about 100 employees.
Shockwave in tech: The giant company parted ways with 21,000 employees within a year
Oracle recorded a sharp 13% drop in its number of employees during the 2026 fiscal year, following strategic changes and a transition to artificial intelligence.
The heavy price of wars: The workers repeatedly pushed out of the labor market
More than 70% of the women who lost their jobs during the 2026 Iran War were also harmed in another emergency crisis in the last six years.
The historic opportunity hidden within the tech layoff wave
In a reality where there are many laid–off tech workers and an immense shortage of science teachers: It is time for the government to build a real bridge between the technology world and schools.
Wix cuts 20% of its employees citing shekel-dollar exchange rate, AI implementation
According to the CEO, the fact that the company has shekel-dominated costs and dollar-denominated revenue made it impossible to keep its current operations running without cutting back.
Behind the layoff headlines lies a more complex reality - opinion
It is very easy to blame AI for everything currently happening in the market, but the layoffs we are seeing are not driven solely by new tech
