Articles by August, 2020

It will be four to five years before the Israeli economy recovers from the corona crisis and returns to a state of full employment - according to the Ministry of Finance's economic forecast for 2023-2020, published today (Sunday). The Treasury presents two possible scenarios: recovery and exacerbation. In a situation of aggravation, the ministry warns, the unemployment rate will be 15% at the end of the year. According to the Treasury's forecasts, growth is expected to contract by 7% in 2020 and grow by 2.2% in 2021

Progress regarding investor Eli Rosenberg on the way to obtaining a permit to purchase El Al. The Companies Authority will recommend to the state the granting of a permit to Rosenberg, subject to the discretion of the ministers holding the state's gold share in El Al. A letter sent by the director of the Companies Authority, Yaakov Quint, to Rosenberg's representative, CPA Aminach Rusk, states: , To agree that he will hold a rate in excess of 40% and that give him control over El Al. Subject to the state's decision, the issuance of the recommendations is said to be conditional on the PA's...

349 corona patients are hospitalized in serious condition and the number of respirators is 97. Data released by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday morning show that 1,801 new corona patients were diagnosed yesterday and by midnight 270 new infections were diagnosed, including a 22-day-old baby diagnosed at Poria Hospital in Tiberias. Yesterday, results of 22,396 tests were obtained. The death toll from the plague stands at 554 people - a jump of eight from yesterday. From Poria Hospital it was reported that in the morning a 22-day-old baby was hospitalized with a temperature of 38 degrees....

A huge explosion shook the port area of ​​Beirut, Lebanon. The country's health minister told local media that more than 50 people were killed in the blast, at least 3,000 were injured - and many more are still trapped under the rubble. Testimonies from those present at the scene of the explosion, which was felt even in Cyprus, indicate that this is an event of a magnitude that has not been seen for years in Lebanon. Hospitals are collapsing under congestion, and many injured are receiving medical treatment on the streets. "The firefighters who were called to the scene simply disappeared...

The Corona Cabinet has decided to lift restrictions on business activities on weekends and stays in public playgrounds. These decisions are subject to government approval, and a vote will be taken during the day. It was also decided to increase involvement in the orange and red cities, and it was decided to promote an outline for the opening of the skies on August 16. The focus of the discussion was a confrontation between the prime minister's approach, which pushed for a closure call, For that. The forum convened yesterday to discuss the possibility of new concessions or restrictions on...

Senior executives from various industries claim that in the last month the trend has intensified in which people refuse to return from unpaid leave or start new jobs, leading to a shortage of employees. The blame, they say, lies in promising the government to pay unemployment benefits by mid-2021 or until the unemployment rate in the economy falls below 10%. Rami Levy, owner of Rami Levy Sycamore Marketing says that "long-term unemployment benefits are the worst thing the government could have done." He said, "The state had to give money to employers so that they would pay it to workers,...

The Ministry of Health updated that 10,052 people were diagnosed with the Corona virus last week. The figure is 14.95% lower than the week before, when 11,820 people were diagnosed. 1,674 were diagnosed in the past day, bringing the number of infected patients in Israel to 80,431. Yesterday, results were obtained for 28,382 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 6.1%. 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 24,577. 776 patients are hospitalized in the hospitals, of...

Significant increase in the number of respirators: According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of corona patients in hospitals increased by 12 in half a day and reached 118, the most since the end of April, at the height of the first wave. The peak number of respirators was on April 13, when 137 corona patients who were connected to respirators were hospitalized in hospitals across the country. This is a sharp jump in the number of respirators in recent weeks. According to the data on July 1 there were 24 respirators, on August 1 the number jumped to 94 and this morning it...

Cultural performances will resume immediately in open spaces. The complexes will be divided into capsules of up to 20 people in each group. Each performance will require prior approval from the Ministry of Health. This is the outline that was agreed upon on Sunday evening and presented at the end of a meeting of representatives of the cultural industry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Israel Katz, Minister of Culture and Sports Hili Trooper and Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein. Simultaneously with this meeting, several hundred people from the cultural industry...

The Medical Federation announced on Sunday evening a labor dispute that will apply to the entire public health system in Israel. The dispute was declared as a result of the non-allocation of standards required to meet the workload during the Corona period and due to the Finance Ministry's decision to impose on hospitals part of the funding of additional standards, which is expected to deepen existing deficits and require layoffs. Finance Minister Israel Katz and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein will hold a meeting tomorrow with representatives of the Medical Federation in order to regulate...