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Israel's Employment
Paradox Continues

Foreign workers flood
in while unemployment
rises.

NECHEMIA MEYERS
Special to The Jewish News

T

here is deep despair in the
Negev town of Ofakim, east
of Beersheba, where unem-
ployment is well over 10
percent and rising all the time. Yet
hundreds of Thais are working in the
fields of nearby kibbutzim and
moshavim, which have even created
special housing areas for them.
This situation is duplicated all over
the country, where there are nearly
150,000 unemployed Israelis and an
estimated 300,000 foreign workers.
The reason: Most of the latter are
doing jobs that the former won't take.

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Israeli construction workers take a
break.

Let no one think that this is a
peculiarly Israeli phenomenon. In
France, for example, unemployment
hovers around 12 percent and yet
there are millions of gainfully-
employed foreign workers, a signifi-
cant percentage of whom are in the
country illegally. The same is true in
Germany, Holland and other parts of
Western Europe.
The presence of foreign workers
didn't matter very much between
1994 and 1996, when the economy
was growing at a record clip of 7 per-
cent a year and new jobs were con-
stantly becoming available. This cre-
ated plenty of employment for