Finance Minister warns that Israeli economy will not survive another general closure: "We must not be intimidated" • On his performance: "I prevented the collapse, did not seek to stand out"

• blueness. "A New World of Employment" // Photo: Jonathan Zindel, Flash 90

The economy is starting to return to activity, the pace of contagion in Corona is keeping numbers low, and the country is still trying to get back to some sort of routine. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon warns of a second wave of the Corona eruption and its significance to the Israeli economy.

In discussions with professionals, Kahlon said yesterday that in the case of the second wave, another total closure should not be imposed on the state, as this will lead to the collapse of the Israeli economy.

Kahlon said in the closed talks that he estimates that by the end of the year, 90 percent of the unemployed and employees who left the US will be able to join the employment cycle. "Ten percent will have to change profession," the finance minister explained. 

"The world of employment will not return to the same situation that existed before the Corona period. We are going to have a new world of employment, a lot of work from home, work remotely, but will not remain unemployed. We have allocated a lot of money for vocational training and vocational change."

He said, "The economy will not face another such closure. If God forbid there is another wave of eruption - it will not be allowed to impose a closure like the first wave. It must not hurt the economy. We must not deal with intimidation. We must learn to live with the Corona. There are many lessons to be learned, and that The most significant of them. If we repeat those activities from the first wave, the Israeli economy will collapse. "

Kahlon, who is scheduled to end his office with the next government inauguration, has been criticized in recent weeks on the grounds that his voice has hardly been heard during the Corona crisis. Kahlon himself rejected the criticism and told his associates: "I prevented the economic collapse, I pushed for the economy to open. The struggle for the economy was necessary. The Israeli economy does not have insurance certificates.

"We went into crisis with tens of billions of shekels. This is not a job of the last two months, but a long-term policy that I led during our last term. Thanks to that, we could spend $ 80 billion under the state's largest economic program. We were able to provide payments to the health system, and dozens more Billions for the self-employed, for people who have been expended by the USSR and others.

"To be dominant and influence the biggest crisis, the state needs to work," he said. "I didn't look for pictures in the newspaper, I didn't try to stand out at the press conferences. I worked and worked to get the economy out of this crisis."