Articles by February, 2020

The year 2020 is opening up in the mortgage market: According to data published by the Bank of Israel, new residential mortgages in January totaled NIS 6.1 billion. This is an increase of 16.5% compared to January last year (NIS 5.2 billion). It is also up more than 6% in January compared to each of the past few months (except December, which was an all-time high). The data shows that the increase in mortgage recycling continues. Last January, the volume of recyclables stood at NIS 465 million, more than double that of January 2019. The figures also show that NIS 723 million was borrowed...

The Innovation Authority's Human Capital Report and Start-Up Nation Central show an alarming picture of the state of employment. The number of high-tech industry employees rose significantly in 2019 to 321,000 employees, accounting for 9.2% of all employees in the economy - up 8% from 2018. On the other hand, besides the large increase in the number of employees, the demand for workers is only rising, and as of July 2019, approximately 18,500 open technology jobs have been registered in the non-staffed industry and were not filled. Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Innovation Authority, said, "We...

The aerospace industry will partner with the international accelerator MassChallenge, to launch a path for the development of unique sensor technologies called Future Sensing. This track is designed for startups that develop sensors in high frequency, quantum, photonics, acoustics, ultrasonic and any disruptive technology in the world of sensing, or fusion of information from sensors. The aerospace industry will operate through its subsidiary Elta, offering start-ups a significant collaboration that includes access to customers and markets around the world that Elta operates, and...

25% of fathers say they do not exercise their parenting rights because of the corporate culture that does not allow them, according to a survey conducted by the Division for Gender Equality at the Civil Service Commission, on the occasion of Family Day held on Wednesday. Many fathers have stated that they fear the response in the ministry if they start taking advantage of the parenting rights they are entitled to. "I feel that fully utilizing parenting rights will prevent me from performing my job well and therefore choose to take advantage of only some of the rights," says a father who...

After four years of research funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, researchers at the Migal Institute of Coronary Virus Vaccine (IBV) developed successfully in preclinical trials and genetically modified for the corona virus vaccine. Minister of Science and Technology Ophir Akunis welcomed the new revelations of the study: "Hope and believe there will be further progress soon." Minister Akunis instructed his office manager to quickly promote possible collaborations that would enable vaccines for humans as soon as possible