Unemployment - A stay abroad

Working abroad can serve as a qualifying period for unemployment benefit only for someone who worked abroad for an Israeli employer under a contract entered into in Israel.

Nevertheless, someone who worked in Austria, Holland or Sweden (countries with which the State of Israel has signed an unemployment convention) can, under certain circumstances, add the qualifying period for unemployment benefit that was accumulated in a country with which there is a convention, to the qualifying period for unemployment benefit that was accumulated in Israel.

Payment of unemployment benefit to someone who stayed abroad - Only short absences of a few days which do not prevent you from reporting routinely to the Employment Services Bureau will not affect entitlement to unemployment benefit.