Labor and Social Affairs Ministry

Public complaints in Israel soar as state failures compound

Of the complaints in which the commission reached a decision, 56% were found justified - the highest rate since its establishment. Another 7,429 complaints were resolved without a formal decision.

Visitors attend the “Batrei Zuzei” art fair featuring student works ahead of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, May 18, 2026.
Truck and car on highway in front of stacks of shipping containers

Israeli truckers fear foreign workers may overtake industry if bureaucracy goes unchecked

A daycare teacher plays with children at a WIZO daycare center.

Israel's Knesset pushes to create daycare oversight authority after Jerusalem tragedy

 Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem. January 21, 2025.

Labor, Religious Services Ministries, to be transferred to Levin post-haredi party withdrawal


New govt program aims to provide free training, job placement in hi-tech

We Code aims to recruit young people from diverse populations – Arab-Israelis, Ethiopians, people with disabilities, ultra-Orthodox- as well as from the social periphery aged 25-30.

High tech students 521

Social Services Ministry budgets NIS 190m. for early childhood education

Among the municipalities to receive the funds are Ashkelon, Binyamina-Givat Ada, Jerusalem and Haifa.

Children get close to the land on Tu Bishvat, 2005

Daycare center sign-up to begin early for 2018

Parents will now be able to register for the daycares as early as February, ensuring them ample time to request financial assistance

A daycare in Israel

After protests, transportation stipend for the blind increases

Starting January 1, 2018, an increase of NIS 1.7 million will be added to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs budget in order to increase the monthly allowance.

Some of the blind demonstrators protest at the Knesset yesterday over their current stipend of NIS 790 per month.