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10 days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of winning Chinese Hutchison Group tender for establishment of Sorek 2 Desalination - Joint Committee of Energy and Water Ministry Announces Joint Group of Desalination Company IDE and Bank Leumi in Tender The facility, which is being built near zero from sensitive security facilities, has an output of 200 million cubic meters per year, will be the largest of its kind in the world and increase Israel's desalination capacity by 35%

The government ministers (Tuesday) confirmed in a telephone poll the cancellation of a series of restrictions created for the Corona period. Tomorrow, swimming pools, tourist attractions and the number of people allowed in confined spaces will be opened. As decided by the Prime Minister's Office, the restaurants, bars and public transport will also be opened. It was stated that "the reliefs have been approved due to the prolonged decline and stabilization in the number of new verified patients every day, in view of the steps taken by the government to prevent the spread of the corona virus

In the coming days, the Risk Loan Fund is expected to start operating, where a state guarantee of 60% will be given instead of 15% on the total loan portfolio. These are loans to businesses that have so far failed to earn the credit they need to deal with the Corona crisis. The prevailing claim is that the current loan fund - of which NIS 13 billion in loans has already been distributed to small and medium businesses - does not meet the needs of several industries, especially restaurants, cafes and hotels. According to this claim, a 15% state guarantee is not enough to address the banks'...

Minister of Economy and Industry, Amir Peretz, formulates a plan that will lead to the establishment of a trust between the Bedouin society in the Negev and the State of Israel. "If we do things right, we can make the next generation part of the Israeli human economy, because otherwise the neglect and deterioration that leads to the separation between Bedouin and Israeli society will continue." Minister Peretz and the office's director, David Lefler, met with the heads of the major authorities, senior representatives of the diaspora accompanied by MK Said Al-Khrumi, and with the Bedouin...

The train will return to activity on Monday morning after months of disabling, since the Corona virus erupted. The opening is made possible after the decision of the Corona Cabinet last week, which approved the opening after several rejections. The opening of the train has become imperative, as the economy has returned to activity, traffic jams have increased without a proper public transport alternative, and the need for an effective mobility solution has become critical for the public. The train was run this past week and drafted a plan to run it, under new health ministry restrictions....

950,000 of nearly 4 million participants in the labor market in Israel did not return to work in May due to causes related to the Corona virus (IAA or days off). At the same time, the number of temporary workers absent from work all week among persons aged 15 and over was 797.6 thousand, compared with 1.5 million in April. 684,000 were absent all week due to Corona virus-related causes, up from 1.3 million last month. The number of unemployed persons absent from work for part of the week among persons aged 15 and over was 666.1 thousand (compared with 1.011 million in the previous month)....

The prime minister was focused this week on one thing that managed to boil over the people of Israel and its voters. He promised in the Knesset that he would receive tax benefits, more correctly say tax refunds. I do not dispute Benjamin Netanyahu's right to exercise his rights vis-à-vis the tax authority. With that, every move also has the issue that makes your move a winning move. Netanyahu is an expert in this field. This is how elections win. But the man is probably in financial obsession, always has been. For some reason he forgot that there are about a million unemployed, many of whom...

For the second time this week, the number of job seekers is higher than those returning to work. This is evident from the data published by the Employment Service. The data shows that in the last 24 hours, 1,448 reports of return to work were received by the Employment Service. At the same time, 1,592 new job seekers were registered. The last time a higher number of layoffs was reported in relation to people returning to work was on Sunday this week, it was reported that the number of job seekers was double the reported return to work, with 466 reports of returning to work, compared to 850...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the much-awaited plan with Finance Minister Israel Katz on Thursday evening. Netanyahu took responsibility and admitted that the opening of the economy may have been premature. He delayed the transfer of funds to the business owners, and pledged that bureaucrats would be handed over to the self-employed as early as next week. Netanyahu emphasized: "We are in the midst of a second wave of the Corona. It has come to us and it has reached other countries as well. In my estimation, it will not pass on almost any country. "We have had a success in the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Israel Katz met with representatives of the Independents on Friday afternoon, with the aim of preventing the big rally scheduled for Saturday evening in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv. Despite the compromise attempts, the organizers renewed the required license from the police and it will go as planned. Netanyahu, who presented the "Corona safety net" program on Thursday, spoke with one of the organizers, restaurant representative Roi Cohen, and other representatives who complain about the government's handling of the economic crisis...