If you first began to perform vital work during the first year after your discharge from the IDF, you are not required to be entitled to the unemployment benefit, it is therefore advised to work during the first year.
If you first began to perform vital work after a year from the date of your discharge, you must be entitled to the unemployment benefit (as described below) on the date that you start the vital work.
Period of work entitling to unemployment benefits
If you worked for 12 months out of the 18 months that preceded the beginning of the vital work.
- The period of work for the purpose of examining entitlement to the unemployment benefit can be consecutive or non-consecutive, and work can be performed for several employers, provided that the required number of days is accumulated within the year and a half that preceded the commencement date of the vital work.
- For those discharged from regular service - 6 months from your compulsory army service and the entire period of your reserve service in the 18 months that preceded the beginning of the vital work shall be counted as a work period for purposes of entitlement to unemployment benefit.
- For those who achieved 24 months of national/civil service - 6 months of service in the 18 months preceding the start of the vital work will be counted as work period for purposes of entitlement to unemployment benefit.
- For those discharged from permanent service - 18 months of permanent service preceding the start of the vital work will be counted as work period for purposes of entitlement to unemployment benefit.