The Covid-19 crisis has passed through there, and as in many countries, it has left its mark: unemployment which has jumped, a recession never before experienced in the history of this young country, significant inequalities between regions and populations which began to be absorbed very slowly before the crisis and which have suddenly increased.
It is therefore understandable why these economic questions are far ahead of the more traditional one of security.
And it must be said that the light is finally starting to appear at the end of the pandemic tunnel.
With a rapid vaccination campaign like nowhere else in the world (51% of the population vaccinated at two doses - the second country, Chile, has immunized only 15% of its population).
So much so that life resumes.
Unemployment is expected to drop.
The next government will have, alongside the recovery, to tackle the country's structural problems, such as inequalities or the (very expensive) cost of living, explained to France 24 the economic attaché of the Israeli embassy. in France, Yaron Schrotter.
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