Follow Feb. 25, 2021 The revelation that the government paid out close to a billion shekels ($300 million) in jobless benefits to people who weren’t entitled to them has exposed the serious shortcoming in collecting up-to-date data on the labor market. Warnings about the problem were made last year by a committee headed by now two former officials, treasury director general Keren Terner Eyal and acting director general of the Prime Minister’s Office, Ronen Peretz. The committee’s report noted that collecting data was “one of the biggest problems in formulating good policies for coping...