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. 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 on the date that you start the vital work.
Please note, due to the coronavirus crisis, a person discharged from regular service between the 1.1.20 and 31.12.20, is not required to be entitled to unemployment benefits, if he or she has started working in a vital work for the first time within 2 years since day of discharge.
If he or she started a vital work for the first time above 2 years since day of discharge, that person must be entitled to unemployment benefits on the starting day of work.
The period of work that entitled you to the unemployment benefit if you started working after a year has elapsed since your discharge from the IDF:
If you worked for 12 months out of the 18 months that preceded the beginning of the vital work.
Due to the coronavirus crisis, unemployment benefits may be obtained if you have accrued a qualifying period of at least 6 months within the last 18 months - click here to learn more.
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.
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 discharged from career military service:
The period of your career service is considered a period of work for the purpose of accumulating the number of work days required to receive the unemployment benefit.