Unemployment officials are seeking to accommodate all of the unemployed, including about 300 directors and senior corporate officials who recently joined the ranks of the nation’s unemployed.

Some of the 300 are former IDF officers who now find themselves in the civilian marketplace but are unable to obtain employment. The number also includes a number of former mayors who lost in the recent municipal elections.

The director of unemployment services, Yossi Farchi, has launched his initiative to offer a discreet line for the senior unemployment in an effort to record their status and hopefully assist in providing temporary assistance. They will meet with representatives in private rooms, avoiding the embarrassment of standing on unemployment lines with the masses.

Farchi does not feel the new reality results in discrimination against the “regular unemployment” but rather a new service which seeks to reach out to those who otherwise might not be willing to come forward and accept assistance.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)