Since October 7, all sectors in Israel, including construction, tech, agriculture, and textiles, have been affected by labor shortages, Le Monde reported.
It noted that a third of restaurants in major cities have not reopened, due to a lack of employees and sometimes even customers.
Thousands of volunteers are now arriving from towns in the countryside to make up for the lack of workers to pick up the fruit that is now in season.
Above all, the high-tech companies of which the country has seen their workforce of "geeks" and skilled executives melt by 10-15 percent, with nearly 360,000 reservists being mobilized by the army, equivalent to 10 percent of the working population.
The newspaper quoted a French investor living in Tel Aviv as saying investment had halted completely in the city.
The Gaza-based Palestinian resistance groups, led by Hamas, launched Operation al-Aqsa Storm into the occupied territories on October 7 in retaliation for Israel’s incessant crimes against Palestinians in the West Bank.
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