Only 38% of employers believe released prisoners can be rehabilitated and only 12.3% said they were willing to employ ex-convicts.
The program will run for five rounds, each lasting five years, with up to 40 researchers participating in each round and will be budgeted NIS 120 million for the entire period.
Dr. Haim Ben Yakov, director general of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, discusses the new reality for Jews in the Euro-Asian region.
According to the Ministry, over 73,000 new olim immigrated to Israel in 2022 and about 24,000 new immigrants studied in government Ulpanim.