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Wix cuts 20% of its employees citing shekel-dollar exchange rate, AI implementation

According to the CEO, the fact that the company has shekel-dominated costs and dollar-denominated revenue made it impossible to keep its current operations running without cutting back.

: In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone displaying the logo of Wix.com Ltd. (NASDAQ: WIX), a cloud-based web development platform, in front of a screen showing the company's branding on July 31, 2025.
(ILLUSTRATIVE) A logo of Meta AI sits outside the Meta House on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025.

Behind the layoff headlines lies a more complex reality - opinion

 A voter holds his proof of Kuwaiti citizenship upon arriving at a polling station during parliamentary elections in Kuwait City on June 6, 2023.

Major change in Kuwaiti citizenship laws sees thousands lose nationality

Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market bustles as the war in Iran rages, March 5, 2026

Israel registered 37% less unpaid leave applications than in previous Iran war, report reveals


Can there be harmony at work? After COVID-19 millions want nothing less

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: Millions of people worldwide have left their jobs over COVID-19 in what has been called the ‘Great Resignation.’

PATRONS OF A Jerusalem cafe. The pandemic gave people a chance to take stock of and reimagine their lives, said Dr. Talya Miron-Shatz, founding director of the Center for Medical Decision Making at Ono Academic College.

Taliban government offers Afghans wheat for work as money dwindles

Officials on Sunday announced a public works program under which 66,000 tons of wheat will be distributed to laborers, bypassing a financial system that is close to collapse.

Members of Taliban forces ride on a pick-up truck mounted with a weapon in Kabul, Afghanistan, October 3, 2021.

Unemployment in Israel: August data gives mixed picture

The broad unemployment rate in Israel reached 7.8 percent in the second half of August — An improvement for the first half of August, but a decline from July.

A beggar sits and asks for money amid the coronavirus crisis, Jerusalem, 2020

More workers quit their jobs during coronavirus - report

The percentage of job seekers who had quit their jobs was 22.3% in 2020, and currently stands at 22.6%, compared to 16.1% a year earlier and just 12.3% in 2014.

 Israeli self-employed protest the lack of financial support from the Israeli government in times of Corona, when many find themselves unemployed, on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv, July 7, 2020.

Number of Israeli job seekers drops 35% in July

The number of job seekers in Israel dropped by more than 35 percent in July to 291,000, Israel Employment Services (IES) said Monday.

OUTSIDE THE Jerusalem Employment Office

Israel's unemployment rate continues to drop, after brief sputter

Israel's broad unemployment rate fell to 7.6% in the second half of July, the lowest rate since the beginning of the coronavirus crisis.

OUTSIDE THE Jerusalem Employment Office

IES: Retraining, incentives needed to solve unemployment crisis

The Israel Employment Services said in a new report that Israel must provide occupational training programs in order to bring hundreds of thousands of unemployed people back into the workforce

FILE PHOTO: People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment benefits, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. April 6, 2020

Youth killed in Iran water crisis protests

Iran is facing its worst drought in 50 years, with protests breaking out in several cities and towns in the oil-rich Khuzestan province over the water crisis.

Iranian people walk in Tehran Bazaar, in Tehran

Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over

The bodies of 10 people were found on Monday evening after a stampede at a Soweto shopping mall, premier David Makhura said.

Police officers detain a person during a protest, as violence following the jailing of former South African President Jacob Zuma spread to the country's main economic hub in Johannesburg, South Africa, July 11, 2021.

Average salary drops as unemployment continues to fall

The average monthly salary fell 7%, while the broad employment rate fell from 9.9% to 9.5%.

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