High-tech job vacancies climb to multi-year highs

Professor Gil Epstein, an economist at Bar-Ilan University and chief labor-market researcher at the Taub Center for Social Policy Research, says the figures indicate a recovery. “The CBS data show that high-tech is coming back into its own,” he said. “There is growing global demand for Israeli products, strong high-tech exports, foreign investment, a weakening dollar, and significant exports from the defense industries.”