CBS: Israeli unemployment rate fell to record low 5.8% in April

The jobless rate dropped from 5.9% in the previous month. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz: In April 2009, I declared a historic target of unemployment of under 6% within four years, It was achieved in only two years
 
Preliminary data released last week by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) showed Israel's unemployment rate declined to 5.8% of the total civilian labor forcein April, a record low according to the government.
 
The jobless rate dropped from 5.9% in the previous month.
 
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement that the unemployment rate was the lowest ever.
 
"In April 2009, I declared a historic target of unemployment of under 6% within four years," he said. “It was achieved in only two years, despite the high jobless rate in Europe and the U.S."