Articles by January, 2022

More than five years after suspicions of corruption in the purchase of submarines from Germany were first revealed, the government will approve on Sunday at its weekly meeting the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the affair. The committee, chaired by a judge, will be empowered to investigate the decision-making processes of the political echelon in relation to procurement processes and vessel transactions, as well as the involvement of former security officers and senior officials as intermediaries in large security transactions. The proposal, promoted by Defense...

According to data from the Ministry of Health from this morning (Monday), in recent days 527,233 Israelis have been diagnosed as positive for Corona and have not yet recovered. 187,867 people are in solitary confinement, many of them students - before changing guidelines. Since the outbreak of the plague, 8,447 patients have died in Israel from the complications of the virus - 11 of them yesterday. On Saturday, 20 corona patients died - the highest daily number in the fifth wave. Since the beginning of the month, 196 corona patients have died in Israel. In the last day, 67,198 positive...

The Histadrut provides El Al with additional assistance in the amount of NIS 10 million, through the Histadrut-owned business assistance fund. Avi Edri, the trustee of the Histadrut's a transportation and aviation portfolio, admitted in a conversation with Ynet that this is a rare amount of assistance. He said: "There are factories that turn to aid and we find that they can survive without us - so they do not receive aid, but that is not the case with El Al. If we did not support the company, it would have closed. This is the company that has been hit the hardest

The Knesset's Labor and Welfare Committee approved the understandings reached by the Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, and the chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Efrat Reitan, who agreed to participate in financing the expenses of the self-employed during the days of isolation. This is an addition to the layout of the isolation days for the self-employed by increasing the daily rate given for an isolation day to NIS 570, an increase of 33% to the original amount of NIS 430, which was based on the tariff set in the Wall Guard operation. The announcement was made to the...

In the last two weeks, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of deaths as a result of corona complications and the number of patients in critical condition. According to the Ministry of Health, in recent days there have been about 40 deaths from corona every day. These data are not updated on the Ministry of Health website, and these are only updated retrospectively - after death certificates are received and confirmation that the main cause of death is corona and not other diseases. By comparison, at the height of the third wave in January last year, the death toll reached 60

The Knesset plenum approved on second and third reading the bill to finance the isolation fee for the self-employed, submitted by Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the request of the self-employed organizations and the chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Efrat Reitan. Twelve MKs supported the proposal without opponents. This is after ministers Lieberman and Yair Lapid and MK Reitan yesterday agreed on the payments for the government's participation in financing the self-employed's expenses during the isolation days

Snow fell tonight in the northern and central mountains and in Jerusalem. The capital was painted white and the access roads to it - one, four-four-three and the tunnel road - were blocked. There will be no studies in Jerusalem today. At several points in the east of the city and in Beit Safafa, stones were thrown at the leveling vessels. The light rail and police vehicles were also stoned. Police arrested twenty-two suspects. Due to the storm, no studies will be held today in Mevaseret Zion, the northern Golan Heights, Safed, Kiryat Arba and the Gush Etzion Regional Council

1,256,077 Israelis were diagnosed from the beginning of the month until yesterday afternoon (Thursday) as positive for Corona. This is according to data from the Ministry of Health. This is the highest monthly number of verified people since the outbreak of the plague and in fact 47.5% of all verified people - since the first Israeli received a positive answer in the corona test - were diagnosed this month. Data from the Ministry of Health show that from Sunday to Thursday at noon, 405,667 Israelis were diagnosed as positive for Corona. For comparison, in January and February 2021 - the...

Another corona year has passed and the patterns of Internet use in Israel continue to surprise: The screen managed us this year as well - in one day we spend an average of 3.2 hours in front of the TV, 2.4 hours surfing the net, 2.1 gaming, and another 2.8 hours in which we scroll endlessly on social networks. WhatsApp is the undisputed queen - 90% of Israelis over the age of 18 are not willing to give up using the messaging app. At the time of the international glitch on meta servers (formerly Facebook, which owns WhatsApp), 25% of respondents chose not to communicate with other people....

Less than two years after the outbreak of the corona crisis in Israel, for the first time, the basic number of unemployed in Israel fell below the level that was on the eve of the spread of the plague. In the first half of January this year, there were only 148.3 thousand unemployed in Israel, which is 3.5% of the labor force. This is compared to 160,000 unemployed and 3.8% unemployment at the beginning of 2020. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported on Monday that the broad unemployment rate, which includes the unemployed due to Corona-related causes, did not fall in the first...