Sharon Wrobel is a technical reporter for The Times of Israel.
Israel will fund a NIS 21. 6 million ($6. 1 million) program to exercise and integrate more than 2,000 Israeli Arab women and men into the local high-tech industry over the next two years as a component of an ongoing effort to decrease employment and income source. Gap between Israeli Jews and Arabs.
The Israel Innovation Authority (IAA), in collaboration with the Labor Division of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, decided on 12 systems for the education and placement of another 2239 people from the Arab population. The 12 decided systems will get a global government. NIS grant 12 million and the rest will be privately funded.
The participation rate of the Arab population in the market for technological tasks remains low despite government initiatives.
Long regarded as the engine of expansion of Israel’s economy, the generation sector accounts for about 25% of the country’s overall source of tax revenue and makes up about 10% of the workforce. Israeli Arabs make up about 20 percent of the population, but only 2 percent of Arab men and 1 percent of Arab women work in the tech industry, according to government data. This compares to 12% of secular Jewish men and 8% of secular Jewish women.
At the same time, the generation industry is facing a severe shortage of professional engineers and programmers. This shortage can stop the engine and the country must take advantage of new sectors of the population to keep it running.
Low-income populations have largely been left out of the country’s high-tech boom, adding ultra-Orthodox, Israeli Arabs and women, resulting in a giant source of income gaps. The ultra-Orthodox and Arab populations, among Israel’s poorest are currently expected to be part of the population until 2065, according to the OECD.
According to the OECD report, “this reflects the lack of skills needed to secure well-paid, high-productivity jobs. “the Israeli economy. “
This year, more than 10,000 people from the Arab population were hired in the tech industry, but some of them were in non-tech jobs, according to Tair Ifergan, director general of the hard work department of the Ministry of Economy and Industry.
“Although the percentage of Arab citizens hired in the technology industry is still lower than the national average, in recent years we have noticed a positive trend towards the integration of the Arab population and a significant increase in the number of Arab scholars reading in the generation. studies and related topics in academia,” said IIA Executive Director Dror Bin. “Our goal is to increase the number of Arab citizens hired in generation and create a significant economic, social and regional replacement as a component of strengthening and diversifying Israel’s tech sector. “
“Timely and correct integration of graduates of those systems will be one of the vital steps in reducing technology shortages in the long run,” Bin said.
More than a part of the systems decided in the assignment will be exercised for complex progression positions in the generation sector, such as programming, and will come with theoretical and practical exercises on the job. Soft skills will also be part of the exercise to expand candidates’ skill set and increase their chances of getting employment in the generation.
One of the funded systems will provide education and task placement assistance in the following 4-generation areas: robotics and automation, auditing, DevOps, and knowledge analytics. Another program focuses on career progression and promotion to leadership positions for technology in Arab society.
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