Despite the ongoing diatribe against chareidim, whom are often referred to as “parasites” for not pulling their share of the national burden, data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics shows that most chareidi men do work.
According to the Channel 2 News report, based on information from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), which addresses 2015 shows that in the last quarter of the year, over 50% of chareidi men were employed.
The CBS explains the figures are representative of a trend seen over the past decade as more and more chareidim enter the workplace. Back in 2003, the number of chareidi men who were employed stood at 36% and in 2014 it was 45%.
The report adds that in 2015, among chareidi women, 73% were employed, marking a 51% increase in the past decade. Despite this, this numbers are lower than other sectors of Jewish Israeli society which stands at 86% for men and 80% for women.
Interestingly, the report adds that the employment rate among Bnei Brak households stands at 82.5%.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Does this article try to stop the hate from the secular Jew to the chariedim? what a waste.
a lot of the religious Sefardim are classified as chareidi when they are not.
@karlbenmarx – Well, if you define chareidi as only those men who are learning or working jobs which have to be off the books because they did not serve in the IDF, then you’re right. But if chareidi means Torah observant, yorei Shomayim, who are interested in doing the ratzon HaShem in whatever situation they find themselves, and see Torah learning as primary, and Torah scholars as our leaders, then you are mistaken.
Your headline and first line of story uses word parasites…..not sure what kind of reporting this is.
Kind of sort of makes no sense for you to do that. Why are you repeating that????????
#2 that’s a terrible remark to make!
i don’t understand what you’re trying to say?
a lot of “religious” … are not “chareidi” what’s that supposed to mean?!