Israel's unemployment rate rate dropped by 0.3 percentage points in February. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

JNS.org – The Israeli unemployment rate dropped by 0.3 percentage points in February, hitting a record low of 5.3 percent, compared to 5.6 percent in January, the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) said Thursday.

Israel’s unemployment figures are now among the lowest jobless rates recorded among the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The data represents a drop from 203,000 job-seekers in January to 214,500 job-seekers in February.

According to the CBS, unemployment in Israel has dropped by 2.6 percentage points since 2009.