Adult Vocational Training and the Israeli Labor Market

Vocational Training project has one main purpose, which is reducing the poverty rates by integrating unemployed in the Israel labor market. This project aspires to improve the socio-economic status and social mobility of vocational training participants, to improve the compatibility between the work supply and the market's needs, and long term employee's empowerment. The steering committee which consists of members of the New Histadrut, the Manufactures' association of Israel, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Ministry of Education, Professional Schools, Working and Studying Youth Group, LAHAV (Organization of Self Employed Persons and Small Business in Israel) and social organizations dealt with youth vocational training during 2010, while in 2011 the project's main objective was vocational training of adults.