Articles by December, 2021

The Omicron variant could jeopardize the global growth trend and lead to a continuation and worsening of inflation, the OECD report published today (Wednesday) states. Total government and domestic product. According to OECD forecasts, the debt-to-GDP ratio will improve more rapidly relative to previous forecasts by local bodies. The organization expects that the ratio of public debt to GDP will decrease. According to the OECD, following the jump in debt raising, the ratio reached 71.5% in 2020, and it remained the same in 2021. However, as early as 2022, the debt-to-GDP ratio will begin...

The morbidity of the "Omicron" strain in Israel has remained unchanged for the time being: two verified patients. The Corona virus information headquarters reports that it is suspected that seventeen people have been exposed to the virus - fourteen of them are unprotected. Their samples were sent for flooring tests. Our correspondent Nov Reuben notes that the group of those who are not protected includes those who have not been vaccinated, recover that half a year has passed since their recovery and are vaccinated in the second dose who did not receive an impulse shot after six months....

The average wage in Israel increased in September 2021 compared to the corresponding period in 2020, even though the number of jobs in the economy also increased. This shows that the anomalous situation that characterized the corona crisis - an abnormal increase in the average wage due to the waves of dismissals - is changing and there is a real increase in the average wage. This may be because of the high demand for workers, which creates pressure on employers to raise wages. The average wage of workers in Israel in September was NIS 11.6 thousand per month. This is a decrease of about 1%...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz have decided to cancel the General Security Service's surveillance of the cell phones of Corona patients who are supposed to be in solitary confinement. Surveillance returned following the South African variant Omicron. Following the public criticism of the surveillance, five days after it was received, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health decided to give up this surveillance tool. The statement said: "At midnight, emergency regulations approved by the government for the use of cellular surveillance by the General...

During the month of October, 25,402 jobseekers with disabilities were registered in the employment service, which constituted 9.1% among all jobseekers in that month. This emerges from a special report published by the Employment Service on the occasion of the International Day for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which took place on Friday. Although this is a relatively low rate for the proportion of people with disabilities among the general population since according to the CBS (as of 2020) 12% of those aged 20 and over have a severe functional disability and 29% of those aged...

The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday evening that the number of those infected with the Omicron variant in Israel has risen to 11. According to the ministry statement, five of those infected returned from South Africa, two returned from France, one returned from Malawi, one from England and another from the US. Of the verified, four are not vaccinated, six are vaccinated in a third dose and another verified is vaccinated with the Astra-Zanka vaccine. According to the ministry's announcement, there are fears that another 24 people have been infected with the new strain of corona virus:...

The number of unemployed dropped to 292.2 thousand - still almost double the number on the eve of the corona crisis, at the beginning of 2020, which amounted to only about 160,000 unemployed. New data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics shows that in the first half of November the number of unemployed decreased, by broad definition, compared with the second half of October, by about 16.4 thousand. This is a particularly high rate of return to work - from 308.6 thousand in the second half of October to 292.2 thousand in the first half of November. The rate decreased from 7.3% for...

Customs duties on dairy delicacies, yogurts and cheeses up to 5% fat will fall, and imports will become cheaper for importers: Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman signed an order today (Monday) to abolish tariffs on delicacies, yogurts and thin cheeses, as well as increase import quotas for hard cheeses. The state's tax revenues are expected to shrink as a result of about NIS 10 million. According to the Ministry of Finance: "The order will allow the opening of the market for free import of these products from European countries where the consumer price per kilogram of yogurt is about 8.5...

More than half a year after the digital wallet Apple Pay was launched in Israel and after more than a year that phone users with the Android operating system pay here at the box office with the mobile phone: Google Pay arrives in Israel. She enters the country late after a number of postponements. The Google payments app will be available tomorrow in the Google app store (Google Play) and Israeli customers of all banks and credit card companies will be able to use Google's digital wallet for the first time. You have to download the app (for free), enter credit card numbers into it, take...

The number of verified variants of Omicron in Israel has risen to 11, the Ministry of Health announced. All four new cases are patients who have been vaccinated three times, three of them with Pfizer vaccines and one with modern vaccines. Two of them returned from France, one from the United States and one from South Africa. In total, of the 11 verified for the Omicron variant in Israel, six of them are from South Africa, two from France, one from Malawi, one from England and one from the United States. Six of them were vaccinated three times, four were not vaccinated at all and one was...