Articles by 0 March, 2021

The average wage in 2020 was NIS 11,538, an increase of 7% compared to 2019, according to CBS data published today (Thursday). The number of jobs per employee was 3.369 million - a decrease of 10% compared to the past year. Were recorded in the hospitality and food services industry with a decrease of 41% in the number of employee jobs and in the arts, entertainment and leisure industry in which there was a decrease of 35.7% in the number of employee jobs. Since 2012, the average wage in the economy has increased by 1.7% -3.6% compared to the previous year, but due to the corona crisis,...

Handwashing hygiene stations developed by Israel Development have been set up in Bangalore and Podochary districts in India with the aim of guiding and encouraging local residents, children and adults, to wash their hands properly and effectively and contribute to reducing morbidity from infectious diseases. The stations were self-funded by the startup Soapy Care, which set itself a policy of providing washing stations in India and Africa with a tithe of ten sales in Israel and around the world. The project is in collaboration with the Swasti and Sanitation First organizations that promote...

The government approves the third-beat regulations of the reliefs that will take effect on Sunday. Studies in grades 7-10 will be renewed in educational institutions in the green, yellow and orange cities. Institutions of higher education will also be opened for the vaccinated and recovering. The ministers also approve a restriction on gatherings in banquet halls, which will allow up to 50% of the hall to occupy no more than 300 people. Entrance to the halls will only be allowed for green card holders, except for 5% of the event participants, who will be able to enter by presenting the...

Only NIS 16 million will be allocated at this stage for the benefit of performing professional training and placing workers in required professions in the industry and construction industries with government funding. In the past, there have been statements from senior members of the economy that vocational training will need to be allocated hundreds of millions of shekels and even more, in order to return the hundreds of thousands of unemployed to work after the severe corona crisis. With the significant reopening of the economy after the third closure, tens of thousands of workers are...

Bank Leumi ended 2020 with a net profit of NIS 2.1 billion, compared with NIS 3.5 billion in the corresponding period in 2019 - a decrease of 40%. The decrease in profit is mainly due to the significant increase in expenses for credit losses, mainly in the group provision, and a decrease in non-interest financing income, which in 2019 also included income from the sale of Leumi Card, in the amount of NIS 314 million. The return on equity for 2020 amounted to 5.7%, compared with a return of 9.8% in 2019 (9.2% excluding the effect of the sale of Leumi Card in 2019), mainly due to the...

Studies will be resumed in all the orange localities, not only the "border" ones, and the facilities for 11th-12th grade students who have also been vaccinated in red localities will be facilitated. In the shadow of calls for a full opening of the education system and the relatively encouraging morbidity data, the Corona Cabinet approved on Wednesday evening additional relief for students. The new relief means another 200,000 students will return to classrooms and kindergartens. Instead of 1,861,081 students currently studying frontally - following the new traffic light map, 2,069,212...

The hacker group "Black Shadow", which carried out the cyber attack on Shirbit, published announcements today (Saturday) according to which it broke into the servers of an Israeli financing company - KLS Ltd. The group distributed documents of the company's customers on the telegram network, and threatened to publish More information: "Their servers have been shut down, and all the information about their clients is in our hands," they wrote. Black Shadow stated that they asked for a ransom of about NIS 2 million in Bitcoin, but the company refused. "We inform you of a cyber attack against...

The declining trend in morbidity continues: The Ministry of Health announced that 2,386 Israelis were diagnosed with corona yesterday, and another 409 received a positive response at midnight. The verified rate of the 84,286 tests sampled yesterday stands at just 2.9%. The coefficient of infection has already dropped to 0.8, a continuum that the Ministry of Health has previously defined as a condition for easing restrictions. As of tonight, 626 patients are hospitalized in critical condition, including 214 respirators. 5,988 people died in the outbreak. According to the Ministry of Health,...

The consumer price index rose by 0.3% in February 2021, indicating that after a long period of Corona, prices began to rise, with inflation already estimated to increase by approximately 201%. . Significant price decreases were recorded in fresh vegetables - 1.9% and in footwear - 1.7%. Since the beginning of the year, the consumer price index has risen by 0.2% and in the last 12 months (February 2021 compared to February 2020), the consumer price index remains unchanged, after a negative index throughout 2020. According to the CBS Housing Price Index, which is published together with the...

The Ministry of Health will update this morning (Monday) that 1,339 people have been diagnosed with Corona the past day. This increased the number of verified infections in Israel to 819,987. Yesterday, results were obtained for 27,108 tests, with the positive rate for the virus being 2.4%. The coefficient of infection has dropped to 0.76. 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 27,593. The hospitals hospitalize 995 patients, of whom 212 are respirators and 627 are seriously ill....