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NEWS
Help Wanted: 600 High Tech Workers in Jerusalem
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
According to a report in the Israeli business magazine
Globes, Jerusalem has a shortage of 1,000 industrial
workers, including 600 high tech workers. Jobs that are
available include positions at prestigious employers like
Intel (Israel), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., NDS
Group, Deltathree (Nasdaq: DDDC), Oren Semiconductor, Matrix
IT, Biometrix Ltd., General Microwave Corp. (Israel), Beit
Shemesh Engines and other companies.
The skills needed include software and hardware engineers, as
well as programmers. Other available posts are for
pharmacists, metalworkers, welders, salespersons, CNC machine
operators, engravers and other professions.
The Manufacturers Association Jerusalem Branch chairman, Ran
Tuttnauer, the CEO of Tuttnauer Co., noted that 500 new
industrial workers began work in Jerusalem in 2005, of which
70 percent were in high tech. There are currently 21,000
industrial workers in Jerusalem.
The Manufacturers Association Jerusalem Branch will hold a
job fair in an attempt to solve the industrial employment
problem.
The steering committee in charge of implementing the Plan for
the Development and Advancement of Jerusalem is giving a NIS
50 million grant for creating quality job opportunities in
the city. Benefits include grants to high tech enterprises
relocating to Jerusalem, as well as rent subsidies to high
tech workers who relocate.
Also, any start-up that is either founded at a Jerusalem
technological incubator, or transferred to one, will receive
a NIS 350,000 grant (NIS 100,000 for the first year of
activity at the incubator, and NIS 250,000 for the second
year), in addition to the regular funding granted by the
Office of the Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Industry,
Trade and Labor.
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