Articles by February, 2021

The Supreme Court, headed by Justice Noam Solberg, granted a petition seeking an amendment to regulations to prevent essential stores, which may operate on closing days, from selling non-essential products. The petitioners are companies that operate through franchisees businesses around the country, selling toys and similar products - they argued that the current policy, which allows the sale of non-essential products, while selling essential products, violates equality, without justification, and without achieving a proper purpose

South Korea rose to first place in the Bloomberg Innovation Index, after Germany, which was in first place last year, dropped to fourth place. The United States, on the other hand, dropped out of the top 10 after being in ninth place in 2020, while Israel was ranked seventh, down one step from last year. The Asian nation is now in first place in seven of the nine years the index is published. One and ranked second and third respectively. The Bloomberg Index analyzes dozens of criteria using seven equivalent metrics, including research and development spending, manufacturing capacity, and...

Data from the Employment Service published on Thursday show that already this week the ratio between those fired and those going on vacation without pay and those who have already returned has decreased. Thus, in the fourth week of quarantine for every ten registrants in the employment service, 1.3 job seekers returned to the labor force, while in the fifth week, the ratio almost doubled, with every 2.3 registrants returning to work 2.3 job seekers. Either way, it seems that the trend will be reversed as early as next week and more workers will return to work than go on vacation and be...

Bloomberg News says it is possible to measure when the epidemic will end based on the current vaccination rate. To this end, Bloomberg has built the largest database of vaccines worldwide, having already given over 119 million doses in various countries. Scientists in the United States, including Dr. Anthony Pauchi, who was one of the top members of the Trump administration's team to deal with the corona virus, estimate that around 70 percent to 85 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated so we can return to normal life. The Bloomberg Surveillance Index shows that in some countries...

The Ministry of Finance's official in charge of salaries in the Ministry of Finance, Kobi Bar-Natan, published today (Tuesday) the report on wage expenditures in the civil service and the defense bodies for 2019. The report focuses on government ministries, the government health system, the government education system and the defense system. The average monthly salary in government ministries in the past year was almost 60% higher than the average salary in the economy. The average salary in government ministries in 2019 was NIS 16,991, compared to the average salary in the economy that...

Teva topped market forecasts in the fourth and final quarter of 2020: The pharmaceutical company ended the quarter with revenue of $ 4.5 billion and net income of 68 cents per share. Analysts had expected revenue of $ 4.37 billion and net income of 62 cents a share. "We are purchasing products in the relatively early stages of development and are building future pipelines, but we will not make large acquisitions and we will not raise capital," said Carr Schultz, CEO of Schultz. Beyond the lack of growth, which is not currently on the horizon, the nature of the legal cases in which it is...

Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday night against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption, for the 34th week in a row. About a thousand demonstrators in front of the prime minister's residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem and several hundred demonstrators near the Netanyahu family's home in Caesarea. These demonstrations were preceded by a series of smaller protests at intersections, bridges and interchanges across the country. Some of the protesters reported incidents of violence during the demonstrations at the intersections. A young woman was arrested after...

The Ministry of Health updated tonight (Saturday) that 4,595 people have been diagnosed with Corona in the past day. Thus, the number of infected people in Israel since the outbreak of the epidemic rose to 721,759. Yesterday, results were obtained for 75,587 tests, of which 6.8% were found positive. 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 61,920. The hospitals house 1,534 patients, of whom 315 are respirators and 1,002 are seriously ill. Currently, 5,340 people have died from the corona...

The Corona Cabinet has approved the updated traffic light index, according to which studies will be able to resume in cities defined as "bright orange" from next Tuesday. The localities where more studies are open are Gush Etzion, Gan Yavne, Ganei Tikva, Yokneam Illit, Kfar Yona, Mevaseret Zion, Ma'ale Adumim, Nahariya, Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Rehovot and Ramat Gan. They will also be able to reopen their studies in the settlements of Yakir and Peduel in Samaria, Mevo Horon in Mateh Binyamin, and in Sde Nehemia in the Upper Galilee. In Eilat, the municipality announced that the institutions...

Following the anger of the US administration and the official complaint forwarded to the Israeli government - US airlines will participate in the US flight schedule. The arrangement that has been found is that the three companies that operate on the line, United, Delta and El Al, will operate a schedule that will be divided between the three: every day a different company will operate a flight on the line from the US to Tel Aviv. However, Delta and United will be allowed to board passengers on flights departing from Tel Aviv every day. As part of the division of the flight schedule, Delta...