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New Immigrant Professionals to Receive Licensing Even Before Arriving in Israel

New immigrants to Israel will receive professional licenses and job offers before arriving, boosting employment absorption. Over 100 licenses granted in France.

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Jerusalem, 21 January, 2026 (TPS-IL) — The Ministry of Labor continues initiatives to promote quality employment absorption for new immigrants, with another project of its kind in collaboration with the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption, which is designed to grant professional licenses and job offers to immigrants even before they immigrate to Israel.

As part of the project, potential immigrants from france are identified in advance by the Jewish Agency and the Ministry of Aliyah and Absorption, based on areas of occupation and relevant professional experience.

After preliminary mapping, candidates are invited to participate in a licensing and employment project at the Jewish Agency offices in Paris, where frontal expert committees are held by the Senior Division for the Regulation of Occupations at the Ministry of Labor.

Within the framework of the committees, the immigrants’ compliance with the professional requirements is examined, and after their approval, they are presented with job offers by the participating employers – including the Electric Company and the Air Conditioning Contractors Association – according to their specialization and the needs of the Israeli labor market.

So far, in the past year, more than 100 professional licenses have been granted to new immigrants in their country of origin, France, and in total, in the last five years, more than 1,500 professional licenses have been granted in their countries of origin and in Israel to new immigrants.

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