Industry minister signs Emergency Economy order
Order allows indispensable enterprises to recruit workers for public and private services, will apply for now to local authorities in Gaza vicinity, Sderot area
The "special situation" definition expands the defense establishment's authorities in the local authorities. This means the defense establishment is authorized to decide how the local authorities will act, for instance in terms of the opening and closing of factories and whether to keep schools open. The local council head operates in coordination with the military system.
The Emergency Economy order signed by Yishai allows the recruitment of workers for essential private and public services, such as emergency services, medicine, local authorities, food and equipment supply, communications, etc.
For the time being, the order will apply to the local authorities in the Gaza vicinity, Sderot, Netivot and Ashkelon, which have all began recruiting workers in order to guarantee the operation of the essential services during the military operation in Gaza.
This is the first time workers are recruited as part of such an order since the 2006 Second Lebanon War. Should the south's residents leave their homes, as did the north residents in 2006, workers who received the order will be forced to remain in the area and go to work.
The order allows indispensable enterprises to recruit workers beyond their regular work hours. In the meantime, there have been no reports on factories planning to cease their activities, which have continued nonstop throughout the past eight years of rocket fire.
The Israel Electric Corporation reinforced its activities in the Gaza vicinity area, called off workers' vacations and moved workers from other areas to the rocket-stricken communities.
The Property Tax operations were also reinforced in the Gaza vicinity communities, with workers arriving at all houses hit by rockets, assessing the damage and moving families whose homes were damaged to alternative housing units.
The Property Tax call center in the south can be reached on 972-8-6898153.
