Articles by January, 2021

The Ministry of Communications imposes a high fine on Hot after it thwarted the wholesale market reform. The ministry imposed an unusual fine of NIS 6 million on the cable company. The fine was imposed after the Ministry of Communications, according to the Ministry of Communications, prevented the implementation of the reform for about a year, and made it difficult for Internet providers without infrastructure to lease infrastructure segments and market them to consumers. The wholesale market reform required Bezeq and Hot to allow competitors to ride on their infrastructure. The reform...

Israel is at the forefront of enforcing restrictions as part of the fight against the corona virus. This is according to data collected by the Israel Police from its partners around the world. For comparison, 30,000 reports have been distributed in the UK so far, compared to 522,000 reports distributed in Israel. This emerges from data presented by the Israel Police. In recent months, the Israel Police has been holding online meetings with police around the world in order to learn about their challenges there, and try to find solutions to local challenges. Among other things, the police...

The tightened closure will last longer than planned: On Tuesday evening, the government approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to extend the tightened closure by 10 days. Thus, the severe restrictions that were supposed to expire after two weeks this coming Thursday - will last until Sunday 31 January at midnight. At the same time, it was decided that a negative corona test would apply 72 hours before departure from abroad to Israel. The tight closure was supposed to end on Thursday this week, but the morbidity data led to its extension. , Yesterday a record of more than...

The district court today (Wednesday) rejected the appeal filed by Twitter against a decision given in September in the Magistrate's Court - in which it was determined that Linoy Bar-Geffen could file a defamation lawsuit against the company in Israel. The lawsuit, for NIS 300,000, was filed by Bar Geffen in 2019 against Twitter (+ 3.89% 47.72) - after she asked her twice to remove an abusive and blatant tweet posted against her and her partner - and was denied. Only after contacting lawyer Guy Ophir and he turned to Twitter, the tweet was removed. According to Bar Geffen, her inquiries...

There was a significant increase in the corona 2020 in the government debt of Israel and in the public debt, which includes the debts of local authorities. Taking out large-scale loans for government spending to fight the virus and aid the economy, caused for the first time in 11 years a significant increase in debt and this increase is expected to continue in 2021. However, it must be said honestly. A debt of 73% is a very impressive rate. We are very far from a real economic crisis. Even if it grows to 80% this year, we are very far from a real economic crisis

The public has suffered in 2020 the most severe damage to its economic situation in the last twenty years. According to the report, the decline in living standards in Israel in 2020 was the largest recorded in the country since the Great Recession in 2001. Households from the middle-class deciles suffered the most economic damage while families from the highest decile suffered less income. Thus, incomes Of households in the fifth and sixth deciles decreased in 2020 by about 5% compared to 2019, in the seventh decile income decreased by 4.3%, and in the eighth decile by 4%. In the ninth...

The Rebbe of Viznitz, Rabbi Yisrael Hagar, instructed his followers to open all the educational institutions of the court starting tomorrow, and also called on other rabbis to act like him and order their communities to do so. Hagar heads the third largest Chassidut in Israel, is a member of the Torah Party Torah and has a representative in the Knesset (MK Yaakov Tessler). This is the first crack in the official position of the mainstream leaders in the ultra-Orthodox community, who have so far called on the public (at least publicly) to maintain the closure guidelines. The Rebbe of...

As expected, due to the extension of the third closure by another 10 days so far, employers have increased their employees' time off. Data reported this morning (Sunday) by the Employment Service show that 5,560 new jobseekers were registered over the weekend. Since the beginning of the third closure, a total of 150,159 new job seekers have been registered, of whom 89,000 have been registered since the closure was tightened. The data also show that 121,291 jobseekers were taken on unpaid leave and their rate is about 80.8% of all new unemployed, while 28,868 of them were fired or resigned

Facebook suspended the Likud's propaganda chat, Bibi Bot, this week, following a post calling for the public to be given personal details of citizens who have not yet been vaccinated in Corona, the social network confirmed tonight. On Saturday, Dr. Anat Ben-David of the Open University revealed that Bibi Bot, a key figure in Likud election campaign in the form of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is asking his followers to send him confidential medical information about their relatives and acquaintances. We have not yet been vaccinated, "he wrote," you can write to me here in response to...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit informed the High Court that the loan received by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from his cousin, the American businessman Natan Milikovsky, in the amount of $ 300,000, is a prohibited gift. This is after the ombudsman ruled two years ago that this is a gift that requires the approval of the permits committee. The ombudsman explains the change in position in exposing the business ties between Netanyahu and Milikowski in the stock affair, which the ombudsman decided to close in October. A decision published on Tuesday evening in response to a petition...