Articles by January, 2022

The report of the Wage Commissioner relating to the health system in 2020 reflects well not only the main health development of that year - the corona plague - but sheds light on the structural problems of the most complex system in the public sector. The clear conclusion from 2020 is that the Israeli government has significantly increased Not only the number of employees in the system but also their salaries. In other words, the government has significantly increased inputs to health. The corona has only increased the jump, as the trend is clear when looking at the system over a period...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened a press conference on Sunday evening following the widespread of the Omicron strain across the country - and announced that the Ministry of Health has approved a fourth vaccine for all those aged 60 and up. "The wave of omicrons is here, and I want to give the citizens of Israel as complete a picture as possible," Bennett said at the beginning of the statement, which, for the first time since the increase in morbidity, was conditional on a rapid corona examination. "It is different from previous varieties and behaves differently, and this requires us...

Google acquires the Israeli cyber company Simemplify for an estimated amount of hundreds of millions of dollars. A little while ago Google issued an official announcement about the deal. According to the announcement, Simplify will join the Google Cloud security team, "to help companies deal more successfully with cyber threats." This is Google's largest acquisition in Israel since it acquired Waze for $ 1 billion, and the first time it has acquired a company in the cyber field - which indicates its intention to establish an activity in the field of information security here for the first...

Food giant Osem is not content with raising consumer prices to improve profitability. The company plans to reduce the salaries of the sales force division. This is a division of more than 100 employees and is responsible for sales in the amount of NIS 4 billion. Yesterday morning, the brigade's workers decided to strike a warning strike with the approval of the Histadrut and did not go to work in the field. Chairman of the Trade Division Workers' Committee, Shlomi Aviv, said that "the company wants to cut our sales component by 20%, so we stopped the work. For years we have hired including...

The director-general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, announced on Thursday that from midnight onwards, all countries will be removed from the list of red countries. It is recommended not to fly, "the CEO emphasized," but at the moment there is no point in doing so anymore. " The decision was made following a pre-defined policy, according to which the mechanism of the red states will be suspended in a situation in which the percentage of nationals who entered from abroad falls below 5% of the total morbidity in the country

The Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education have officially announced a new outline for the education system, and it will take effect this coming Sunday, subject to the approval of the government and the Knesset Education Committee. The bottom line of the decision, the traffic light layout is abolished, and the conduct of the education system will be the same as driving throughout the economy, regardless of the color of the authority

The Competition Authority approved the transaction for the acquisition of control of Partner by the Gabay, Rodev and Phoenix Groups. This removed another obstacle although expected to complete the transaction. Avi Gabay, Shlomo Rodev, Phoenix, Menora and Mori Arkin buy 27% of the communications company Partner from Hong Kong Hutchison for $ 300 million. The group is now waiting for a permit from the Ministry of Communications to complete the move. The estimates in the capital market are that the group will not have difficulty obtaining the permit from the Ministry of Communications and...