Coronavirus in Israel: Unemployment payments to end at end of June
The announcement was expected. The economic safety net that supported hundreds of thousands of unemployed Israelis throughout the pandemic was scheduled to end June 30.
Stores are seen shuttered closed and streets are empty in Jerusalem's Old City amid Israel's third coronavirus lockdown, on January 4, 2021.(photo credit: MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/THE JERUSALEM POST)ByZEV STUB