Articles by January, 2021

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...

An end to the saga of a lack of budgets for medical care in hospitals? The Ministry of Finance and the public hospitals announced tonight (Wednesday) that an agreement has been reached according to which all the hospitals together will receive NIS 105 million each month for their operation and for the purchase of urgent equipment and medicines

Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky recently completed a huge $ 208 million fundraiser for their startup, Drivenets, which has developed a solution that helps media companies increase surfing volume and maintain profitability. The start-up has benefited in the past year from the move to work from home, which has forced communications companies to deal with a huge volume of traffic, and invested in expanding their infrastructure. Drivents was established in December 2015, and this is its second round of capital raising since its inception. The round was led by the D1 Capital Partners fund, which...

The team of experts at the Hebrew University, in collaboration with Hadassah Hospital, calls on the government to immediately open kindergartens in the green and yellow localities, and then gradually open the education system as soon as possible - even before returning to routine in other areas. According to the university's team of experts, "the damage involved in the sweeping closure of education frameworks outweighs the benefit." They call for a careful and differential opening of the education system as soon as possible. The letter, sent to the government by members of the...

Thousands demonstrated tonight (Saturday) against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption, in three areas - in front of the Prime Minister's residence in Jerusalem, in Habima Square in Tel Aviv and near the Netanyahu family home in Caesarea. The main demonstrations were preceded by hundreds of small demonstrations at intersections, interchanges and bridges across the country. This is the 32nd consecutive week of protest. During the evening, hundreds of protesters in the capital marched from the String Bridge to the Prime Minister's residence on Balfour Street, in...