Articles by November, 2020

The government and the student union have agreed on an economic plan for students affected by the corona crisis, amounting to NIS 800 million. The program consists of three main components of assistance - expanding the system of scholarships for students, promoting youth employment and a one-time reduction in the payment of security fees to academic institutions. This is in fact the addition of scholarships and discounts amounting to about 300 million, and the consolidation of budgets for professional training and employment into the program. This assistance is in addition to the NIS 100...

The number of job vacancies in October fell by 2%, from 55.5 thousand in September to 54.5 thousand; This is compared to about 100,000 vacancies at the end of 2019. This is according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The vacancy rate in October was 2.3%, compared with 2.32% in September. The low number of job vacancies is not just a result of the second closure: even in summer the number of job vacancies did not exceed 60,000. The slump in demand for workers is probably due to the uncertainty of the economy during the Corona period, Another factor is the very little...

American supermarket giant 7Eleven on its way to Israel. The chain is in talks with Electra Consumer, which is controlled by the Zalkind family, to hand over a franchise in which a Fox partner controlled by Harel Wiesel is expected to be a partner. The American company will try - with the help of the Israeli partners - to quickly bite into a share of the Israeli convenience store market, which has a turnover of about NIS 10 billion a year and enjoys growth, according to people close to the negotiations. After the negotiations between the parties were exposed in the media, Fox (-2.05%...

The Ministry of Health updated this morning (Wednesday) that 815 people have been diagnosed with Corona in the past day. This increased the number of verified infections in Israel to 325,845. Yesterday, results were obtained for 55,202 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 1.5%. 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 8,293. The hospitals hospitalize 502 patients, of whom 131 are respirators and 307 are seriously ill. To date, 2,735 people have died from the corona...

In a telephone poll Wednesday, the Corona Cabinet approved an increase in the maximum allowable occupancy of a street store and a store operating in a shopping complex according to the size of the store - so that the number of customers allowed is per person per 7 square meters of store space and no more than 10 people. Will be less than 4 people as approved so far. The Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, welcomed the move and said that "this is an important decision by the Corona Cabinet." He said, "This is a necessary decision in light of the density of queues and the need to facilitate...

Danny Avdiah was selected in the NBA draft by the Washington Wizards and became the first Israeli ever to be taken in the lottery selection which are the first 14 selections in the draft. With his selection in the first round, the 19-year-old diamond also secured himself a contract in the best basketball league in the world and thus one can already congratulate the finished: Israel will have a third representative after Omri Caspi and Gal Makal in the NBA. Abdia did something extraordinary on an Israeli scale. To date, Omri Caspi has been the highest pick in the history of Israeli...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit this evening (Thursday) addressed Finance Minister Israel Katz and clarified to him that "the post of Accountant General cannot be left unmanned." The minister replied that he agreed and would work for the nomination of a candidate already at the next cabinet meeting. Since the retirement of former accountant Roni Hezekiah last month, no deputy has been appointed to the position. "The role and powers of the Accountant General are of great importance in general, and in the period in which we are in particular," the ombudsman clarified, noting that in his...

Are we exposed to civil rebellion? The Azrieli Malls Group and the Melisron Malls Group (Ofer Malls) plan to open on Friday, contrary to the guidelines, the Ayalon Mall, the Kryon, the BS Grand Mall, the Petah Tikva Grand Mall and the Modiin Mall. Some chains have announced that they will open stores in order to meet the demand for winter clothing and to release inventory. Other chains such as Castro and H&M have announced that they will not open the stores in violation of the guidelines. This is despite the fact that malls undertake to maintain an outline that requires a limited number of...

Consumer confidence in the Israeli economy continues to recover slowly: in the first half of November the index stood at minus 22%, while in the second half of October the index stood at minus 26% and in the first half of October, during the second closure, consumer confidence stood at minus 32%. This emerges from a public trust survey published by the Central Bureau of Statistics. However, the negative value of the index indicates that consumers in Israel are still cautious when it comes to economic stability. The consumer confidence index is in the range of minus 100 and plus 100. The...

In the past week, there has been an increase in the number of new patients and seriously ill patients, for the first time since the closure began a month and a half ago, according to a report published today (Sunday) by the National Information and Knowledge Campaign in Corona. Masks, social alienation and enforcement may increase morbidity, which has been on the rise in the past month and includes hundreds of infections daily. The report also shows that the Central Bureau of Statistics' data for October indicate a high correlation between the excess mortality in recent months, compared...