What's happening with the Israeli economy lately?

[cerulean]

Could someone provide an update of how the Israeli economy is doing? Statistics and anecdotes both welcome.

[I am David]

Dunno much myself but this site http://www.globes.co.il Has a lot of good info and articles in all the articles, updated daily.

[L@mplighterM]

Originally posted by cerulean
Could someone provide an update of how the Israeli economy is doing? Statistics and anecdotes both welcome.

Snip:
The number of job seekers shot up 5.5 percent in June to 198,700 over the previous months, figures, the Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry's Employment Services department reported Monday.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1058755869645