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Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday night against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption, for the 34th week in a row. About a thousand demonstrators in front of the prime minister's residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem and several hundred demonstrators near the Netanyahu family's home in Caesarea. These demonstrations were preceded by a series of smaller protests at intersections, bridges and interchanges across the country. Some of the protesters reported incidents of violence during the demonstrations at the intersections. A young woman was arrested after...

The Ministry of Health updated tonight (Saturday) that 4,595 people have been diagnosed with Corona in the past day. Thus, the number of infected people in Israel since the outbreak of the epidemic rose to 721,759. Yesterday, results were obtained for 75,587 tests, of which 6.8% were found positive. The test data and their results are not final and may change in subsequent updates from the Ministry of Health. The number of active patients is 61,920. The hospitals house 1,534 patients, of whom 315 are respirators and 1,002 are seriously ill. Currently, 5,340 people have died from the corona...

The Manufacturers' Association issued a legal opinion on Monday evening to all employers affiliated with it, according to which the employer is allowed to force an employee to be vaccinated or tested on a daily basis, and even to expel an employee to the Knesset if he chooses not to do so. 'Specializing in labor law, may apply to about 400 thousand workers directly employed by industrialists from the association.

This coming Sunday, classes will be resumed in grades 5-6 as well as 11-12 in green, yellow and orange cities where more than 70% are vaccinated, but 7th-10th graders will continue to be at home - at least until March 7, 11 Days before the beginning of the Passover holiday. Teachers, parents, children and educators from all over the country harshly criticized the decision that remained: "Opening malls and commerce before the education system symbolizes the importance of the education system and Israeli students in the eyes of the political echelon. Shame and disgrace." Ahead of tonight's...

The Ministry of Health this evening released data showing that 14 days after receiving the second vaccine, the data are even higher than in Pfizer's initial study. Corona vaccines in Israel have been found to be very effective in preventing illness, with an emphasis on serious illness, hospitalization and mortality - this evening (Saturday) increased the effectiveness of the vaccines performed by the Department of Epidemiology in the Ministry of Health. According to the results of the test, which was conducted until the previous weekend, there is an efficiency of 95.8% in preventing all...

32-year-old woman in advanced pregnancy died after being infected with Corona, Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem announced on Sunday morning. The doctors were unable to save the fetus. The woman, in the 30th week of her pregnancy, was hospitalized due to breathing difficulties at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Tuesday, and her condition was defined as serious. Tonight her condition deteriorated into a multi-system failure. A team of experts was called to the scene, and began lengthy resuscitation attempts as well as a caesarean section in order to save the fetus, but the attempts failed...

3,084 Israelis have been diagnosed as positive for Corona since midnight. The positive rate out of about 51,500 deciphered tests stands at 6%. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 1,217 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 785 of them in critical condition and 261 respirators. Since the outbreak of the plague, 5,660 corona patients have died in Israel, 11 of them only today. The rate of serious patients among those aged 60 and under continues to decline, due to the vaccination campaign. As of tonight, 56.5% of severe patients are over 60 years old. 19.7%...

Thousands of people celebrated from Saturday afternoon at the flea market in Jaffa - but the police arrived to disperse them only after about three hours. The partygoers, most of them in costumes, crowded the narrow alleys of the market, taking drinks and food they had taken at takeaways. Inside the crowd there were also spontaneous parties with music heard from the businesses, with the partygoers dancing - almost no one kept their distance or put on a mask. Later, the celebrations in the market resumed on another street. The police claimed that police officers from the Jaffa station had...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Galant announced last night (Sunday) that schooling will continue in July, but did not present a clear outline for this. The students are outraged and the student council said: "We have been stuck in the same place for almost a year and the solution in your opinion is to extend this year further? Parents and teachers were left confused, wondering if it was an election announcement, or a decision the system could stand. The guiding principle in the outline that should be formulated by the Ministry of Education and presented...

2,393 corona patients have died in Israel since the beginning of the year - 1,459 of them in January and 934 in February. There are more than 40 deaths every day. It should be emphasized that the data for the month ended yesterday (Sunday) are not final, as late data on deaths are still coming to the Ministry of Health. There is no doubt that the extensive vaccination campaign is the significant factor in the decrease in the number of deaths from corona in Israel. An analysis of data from the Ministry of Health shows that in the first half of last month, an average of 40 patients died...