Articles by February, 2021

3,084 Israelis have been diagnosed as positive for Corona since midnight. The positive rate out of about 51,500 deciphered tests stands at 6%. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 1,217 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 785 of them in critical condition and 261 respirators. Since the outbreak of the plague, 5,660 corona patients have died in Israel, 11 of them only today. The rate of serious patients among those aged 60 and under continues to decline, due to the vaccination campaign. As of tonight, 56.5% of severe patients are over 60 years old. 19.7%...

The American private equity fund Francisco Partners acquires MyHeritage. The companies did not publish the purchase value, but Calcalist has learned that it is about $ 600 million. The deal price may even go up. CEO Gilad Yefet: "It's hard to be a promising start-up after 17 years and among the options on the agenda, the Francisco option was the most suitable for me. They are the factor that most wants to bring the company to an exit and come without changing world orders. "Instead of being sold to a competitor, we have long contacts with the buyer and in the end we got married. I am...

The night closure on Purim took effect tonight (Thursday) at 20:30 and will last until 05:00. Among other things, it will be forbidden during these hours to leave the house for a distance of more than 1,000 meters and stay in other houses. Public transportation will also be reduced, and as always in Israel, the outline for restrictions on lines was published at the last minute. The night closure will also apply on Friday and Saturday, but not on Sunday - then Shoshan Purim will be celebrated in Jerusalem. The government has approved the restrictions for fear that as last year mass...

Thousands of people celebrated from Saturday afternoon at the flea market in Jaffa - but the police arrived to disperse them only after about three hours. The partygoers, most of them in costumes, crowded the narrow alleys of the market, taking drinks and food they had taken at takeaways. Inside the crowd there were also spontaneous parties with music heard from the businesses, with the partygoers dancing - almost no one kept their distance or put on a mask. Later, the celebrations in the market resumed on another street. The police claimed that police officers from the Jaffa station had...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Galant announced last night (Sunday) that schooling will continue in July, but did not present a clear outline for this. The students are outraged and the student council said: "We have been stuck in the same place for almost a year and the solution in your opinion is to extend this year further? Parents and teachers were left confused, wondering if it was an election announcement, or a decision the system could stand. The guiding principle in the outline that should be formulated by the Ministry of Education and presented...

The reform of the port of Ashdod is underway: after almost eight years of negotiations, an agreement was officially signed tonight between the state, the management of the port of Ashdod and the workers. The agreement ensures substantial efficiency in all sectors and managerial flexibility that will allow the port to compete with the private ports currently being established. At the same time, the remaining employees received a variety of benefits; Among other things, 10 years of protection against collective redundancies will be given to second-generation non-founding employees; A...

2,393 corona patients have died in Israel since the beginning of the year - 1,459 of them in January and 934 in February. There are more than 40 deaths every day. It should be emphasized that the data for the month ended yesterday (Sunday) are not final, as late data on deaths are still coming to the Ministry of Health. There is no doubt that the extensive vaccination campaign is the significant factor in the decrease in the number of deaths from corona in Israel. An analysis of data from the Ministry of Health shows that in the first half of last month, an average of 40 patients died...