(Source: Bank of Israel)

In the last few years, with the waning of the intifada, the number of Palestinian residents of Judea and Samaria working in the Israeli economy (in Israel and the settlements in Judea and Samaria) increased.

An analysis of the data of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics shows that the number of Palestinian workers from Judea and Samaria in the Israeli economy reached about 44,000, in addition to about 32,000 residents of East Jerusalem covered by the publications of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.

The workers from Judea and Samaria (excluding East Jerusalem) constitute about 2 percent of the total number of employees in Israel's business sector. From the Palestinian point of view, employment in Israel is highly important: Palestinians working in Israel constitute more than 14 percent of the total number of Palestinian employees in Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem, and their total wage bill in 2008 was estimated at $649 million, more than 10 percent of the Palestinian GDP.

A report of the Palestinian Ministry of Finance notes that an increase of more than 20 percent in the number of Palestinians employed in Israel's economy in 2007–08 resulted in a significant increase in income and demand in the Palestinian economy.

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