Articles by July, 2020

The restaurants and food business will remain open until next Tuesday at 05:00 in the morning, according to the format that has been used until now - the Prime Minister's Office said today (Friday). According to the bureau's announcement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister Bnei Gantz have decided to do so in order to allow preparations and due to the purchase of food supplies in restaurants. The decision comes after a fierce protest by restaurant owners across the country, against the decision to reopen the restaurants, except for self-collection and deliveries....

The grants announced by Prime Minister Netanyahu at the beginning of last week and promised to be paid by last Wednesday have not yet reached the bank accounts of Israeli citizens. Today, Sunday, the government approved the grants in the total amount of six billion shekels. However, it seems that not every citizen will receive the same grant in the coming days as Prime Minister Netanyahu announced. The proposals that will be summarized on Monday morning in the "Four Committee" of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, Finance Minister Israel Katz and Economy...

The nurses' strike that began today (Monday) is about to end. In a meeting held tonight between Finance Minister Israel Katz and the chairman of the Nurses' Federation, Ilana Cohen, an outline was agreed for ending the strike. And these are the agreements: 1. An additional 2,000 temporary standards for nurses and 400 for physicians Within three days, a joint team will be set up to make recommendations and conclusions within a month (until August 25) and make a decision - on the scope of the additional additional standard required and the way and date of implementation. 3. The issue of...

The Corona Commission has ruled that beaches and swimming pools will remain open on weekends. The committee decided to postpone the vote on the opening of the restaurants, apparently in the evening. Voting on the opening of museums, attractions and gyms has been postponed for the rest of the week. At the beginning of the meeting, the chairman of the committee, Yifat Shasha Bitton, referred to the restrictions that the government decided on over the weekend and said that "we are still having a dialogue with the government. We will not vote on what has not yet been agreed. "However, she...

The Corona Commission on Tuesday approved the exclusion of the restaurants from the government order, and their continued activity includes sitting in closed spaces. This is contrary to the decision of the government. Eight members of the committee supported the opening of the restaurants, in front of three opponents. Blue and white were absent from the vote in coordination with the Likud. The restaurants will now be able to open after they closed this morning, following the failure of contacts between Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and committee chairman MK Yifat Shasha Bitton. According...

While the unemployment benefit ceiling is NIS 10.5 thousand per month, in practice unemployment benefit payments have been much lower in recent months. Thus, only 2% of the recipients of the benefits received more than NIS 10,000, and 64% received less than NIS 5,000; This emerges from data published by the National Insurance Institute. According to the data, 4% of unemployment benefit recipients receive less than NIS 1,000 a month and 9% receive between NIS 1,000 and NIS 2,000. 38% of benefit recipients receive between NIS 3,000 and NIS 5,000 per month. Since the beginning of the crisis,...

Thousands demonstrated Tuesday night against the prime minister and the laws he is trying to pass in the Knesset that they believe are undermining democracy. The demonstrators from dozens of organizations gathered near the Prime Minister's residence on Balfour Street, and began marching towards the Knesset, where they demonstrated for about two hours and then returned to Balfour accompanied by District Commander Superintendent Doron Yedid and senior police officers. After 11 p.m., clashes broke out between protesters and police and six protesters were arrested. Police in riot gear stormed a...

The second wave that comes in the summer days, mass unemployment, business closures and protests, bring with them pessimism about citizens' economic situation in the country, and their economic situation in the household - according to a survey of consumer confidence for the first half of July, published today (Wednesday) by the Central Bureau of Statistics. CBS). Consumer confidence in the economy in the first half of July continues to fall to 28%, while in June it stood at a negative rate of 23%

Israeli democracy - disabled. On the night between Wednesday and Thursday, the Knesset plenum approved the law, also known as the "Great Corona Law," which will allow the government to declare restrictions on Corona without waiting for Knesset approval. 48 voted for the law, 35 opposed, and no one abstained. Contrary to the original intention, which would have allowed the government to bypass the Knesset and issue immediately valid orders, the proposal formulated in the Law, Constitution and Justice Committee requires approval of regulations from the relevant Knesset committees, although...

Following the Corona crisis and the severe economic crisis affecting many workers in the economy and the self-employed in particular, Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David decided to fire them for the self-employed and ordered the establishment of a special fund to distribute food parcels to the self-employed and families in financial distress. Through the funds that will be deposited in the fund, the Histadrut will in the near future distribute thousands of food packages to the self-employed, each of which will include products worth NIS 350