Articles by May, 2021

According to the guidelines of the Home Front Command, studies will not be held tomorrow (Thursday) in most parts of the country - from the Gaza Strip to the localities of Gush Dan and the Sharon. Home Front Command guidelines also apply to Friday until the end of the school day. Since schoolchildren go on holiday for weeks, at this stage the studies are expected to resume on Wednesday, after Shavuot has been banned and only if there is an improvement in the security situation. Following the guidelines, about one million students will not attend school by Wednesday. The guidelines also...

Tensions between Arabs and Jews in Israel reach negative highs in two acts of Lynch in Acre and Bat Yam. In Acre, a Jewish man was beaten and seriously injured. In Bat Yam an Arab man was beaten and seriously injured. In Lod, the riots continue despite the curfew coming into effect, riots began in Bat Yam with members of "La Familia", and also in Tiberias, Haifa and Acre it was not quiet: a 30-year-old Jewish citizen was fatally injured in a lynching attempt in Acre when he was attacked with sticks and stones. MDA staff evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. At the same...

President of the Manufacturers' Association Ron Tomer The damage to the entire economy from the three days of fighting is estimated at five hundred and forty million shekels. According to him, the Israeli industry continues to produce under fire with a poorer presence of workers The Manufacturers' Association's estimate is based on the assumption that about a third of the employed in the south of the country were absent from work and ten percent of the workers in the center of the country Following the riots and riots across the country: tens of millions of shekels in damage to...

Right-wing party chairman Naftali Bennett said today (Thursday) that a new government led by him and Yair Lapid is no longer an option and dropped out of the chapter. Meanwhile, the party's negotiating teams met today with Likud teams. Chairman Yesh Atid Yair Lapid, who has the mandate to form a government, commented on Bennett's decision and said that "I understand the distress, but he is wrong. Change is not made when comfortable. Whoever waits for the right moment will find that he will never come. Change is made when you believe it is the right thing to do. "Lapid added in a statement...

In light of the security situation, foreign airlines continue to cancel their flights to and from Israel in the coming days. Only a few foreign airlines continue to operate flights to Israel, including the Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia, and meanwhile also the Ethiopian Airlines, which at this stage has not yet announced the cancellation of the upcoming flight that is scheduled to depart at 1:00 at night, Play Dubai, Aegean Scheduled to fly on Monday and others. The first to cancel the flights were the American airlines United, Delta and American Airlines, which announced last...

Judea and Samaria sector warms up, in parallel with the continuation of the operation in Gaza: 9 Palestinians were killed on Friday, according to the Palestinian Authority's official news agency, in clashes with IDF forces across Judea and Samaria. He was wounded in the hospital earlier in the day by a terrorist who tried to run over and stab soldiers near Ofra in Binyamin. In an attempt to ignite the fire in the West Bank as well, Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obeida sent a message to West Bank residents: "Congratulations on your uprising. Ignite the land under the feet of the...

Also on Saturday evening, riots and violent riots continue in Arab localities and mixed cities in the country, against the background of Operation in Gaza. The riots began at the end of Shabbat, and the police announced a curfew in Lod, which they mark as the main boiling point, starting at 19:00. To this end, and at the request of the Israel Police, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz extended the validity of the declaration of a "civil emergency" in Lod by an additional 48 hours. He toured the city and gave Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai a declaration extending the validity of the civil...

International pressure on Israel is gaining momentum. Many countries express dissatisfaction with the continuation of Israel's massive attacks in the Gaza Strip, attacks that have killed more than one hundred and seventy Israelis. President Biden has twice called on Prime Minister Netanyahu and expressed concern about the number of innocent casualties in the Gaza Strip. China and the European Union are also putting pressure on Israel to end the fighting.

A 12-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man were killed and more than 160 were injured this evening (Sunday) after a grandstand set up in the Carlin Synagogue in Givat Zeev, north of Jerusalem, collapsed during prayers on the eve of Shavuot. According to MDA, 167 wounded were evacuated to hospitals - including five in critical condition and ten in moderate condition. The tribune that collapsed in the synagogue was temporarily erected for Shavuot celebrations. According to the report, hundreds of people were present at the time of the collapse of the grandstand. Helicopters were launched to...

The Israeli economy contracted by 1.7% in the first quarter of 2021, relative to the fourth quarter of 2020. The decline in GDP, according to a first estimate by the Central Bureau of Statistics, was mainly due to the consequences of the corona crisis - the sharp closure in January and February. On an annual basis, there was a decrease of 6.5% in GDP compared to the fourth quarter of 2020 The negative data for the quarter contradict the early forecasts of analysts, who believed that the Israeli economy would actually continue to recover after emerging from the corona crisis. For example,...