The Employment Service and the Eilat Municipality are launching an emergency program to save the city of Eilat, Israel's southernmost city, which has been critically hit by the coronavirus crisis. The rate of unemployment in the city reached 45.6% at the end of April, which compares with a national average of 26%. The reason is that the tourism industry, on which the economy of the city is highly dependent, has shut down completely, and it is not clear when it will reopen.
