Peres forms high-tech coalition to integrate Arabs, Haredim into workforce

08.02.2011                     04.Adar l, 5771

Jerusalem:

Peres forms high-tech coalition to integrate Arabs, Haredim into workforce

The coalition will be setting up a designated website, to be jointly operated by the nonprofit organization Kav Mashve, which helps job-seekers find work.

It is an open secret that Israeli employers are reluctant to hire minorities, be they Israeli Arabs, Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews ) or other groups. President Shimon Peres has made it his personal mission to change that, and to integrate both communities into the Israeli workforce, so as to alleviate poverty among them and advance the Israeli economy….