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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this evening (Thursday): "We have decided on the establishment of an official and complete peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates." According to Netanyahu, "this is a historic moment." Netanyahu issued a statement following the agreement between Israel, the United States and the United Arab Emirates to postpone annexation in the West Bank in favor of normalization with the United Arab Emirates. However, the prime minister said at the press conference: "There is no change in my plan to apply our sovereignty in Judea and Samaria in...

The outline of the open sky for the return of civilian flights went into operation this morning (Sunday), but the road to the next vacation is still very far. A lot of hopes were hung on the deadline for the opening of the sky and the possibility of returning and flying - August 16th. Technically, the sky is not really closed to flights to and from Israel. Flights still appear on the airport's flight schedule and in fact they never stopped. However, the series of conditions that restrict passengers have made this activity extremely limited. Not only a ban on entry to Israel for passengers...

1,721 public sector wage anomalies were identified among physicians last year. This emerges from the report of the wage anomalies to the public sector of the wage commissioner Kobi Bar-Natan regarding the activity of the enforcement unit in the last two years, which was published on Tuesday. About 62% of the employees who exceed the ranking of doctors are employed by Clalit Health Fund. During the past year a collective hearing was sent to doctors at this fund. In light of this, it was decided to classify them as alleged exceptions (all the anomalies identified in the past year and their...

In tens of thousands of homes in Israel, the joy of the holidays on Rosh Hashanah and Sukkot will be replaced this year by worry and feelings of uncertainty against the background of the economic distress caused by the corona crisis. A dive into the economic data paints a gloomy and sad picture of the situation of a large part of Israelis about a month before Rosh Hashanah. Nearly a million employees and the self-employed have lost their jobs, business owners who lose money even when the store and business are open, and tens of thousands staying in isolation, some of whom are sick in...

The Employment Service expects Israel to end 2020 with about half a million unemployed. The labor market will take many years to recover from the corona crisis and the phenomenon of prolonged unemployment is expected to expand. This was stated in a report published on Sunday by the Employment Service. The authors of the report warn of a number of dangers in the current government policy that includes only assisting the unemployed without encouraging their return to the labor market and states that the policy encourages the taking of unemployment benefits. The Employment Service estimates...

The rate of eligibility for a matriculation certificate among 12th grade graduates last year stands at 69.7% across the country, a slight decrease compared to the previous year which ended with 69.9%. Data published on Monday by the Ministry of Education show that despite the stability among those eligible for matriculation in the Jewish sector, eligibility among Bedouin students fell below 50%, and among Arab students in general there was a percentage decrease among those eligible

A general strike in the midst of the corona crisis is approaching. On Sunday, talks between the heads of the Histadrut and the department in charge of salaries at the Ministry of Finance came to a dead end, regarding wage cuts planned by the Ministry of Finance for the public sector. The contacts have reached a dead end and the current situation is that Finance Minister Israel Katz intends to bring the austerity plan to the government's approval on September 13 - and on the same day the Histadrut plans to shut down the economy altogether. Following the explosion of talks, Histadrut chairman...

At noon, the Israeli delegation will return from the historic visit to the United Arab Emirates. This morning, discussions will continue on the future cooperation in the fields of economics and society of the two countries. The American representatives, including President Trump's adviser Jared Kushner, will also return to Israel on their way to the United States. Prime Minister Netanyahu has already instructed the head of the delegation, Ben Shabbat, to invite representatives of the United Arab Emirates to visit Israel to continue contacts. A ceremony to implement the agreement will be...

The night curfew planned tonight in about 40 localities defined as "red" due to the high level of morbidity in them will take effect on Tuesday at 19:00, due to a delay in formulating the list of authorities. Yesterday, the Committee of Ministers for Restricted Areas approved a night curfew and transferred the education system to distance learning in red localities, and the ministers were supposed to decide today which localities would be included in the list. Formulation of the list of localities designated for the curfew includes a hearing: The professional teams subordinate to the...

After more than eight hours of a tense cabinet meeting on Sunday, the ministers approved a closure on Fridy, New Year's Eve, at 2 p.m that will last at least three weeks. This is in order to stop the surge in coronary heart disease in Israel. Towards the end of the original closure period, a situation assessment will be conducted in which it will be decided whether to extend the closure. The closure was approved by a majority of votes in the yeshiva, and only Ministers Zeev Elkin and Assaf Zamir voted against. Ministers Itzik Shmuli and Ofir Akunis abstained, the rest supported. Prime...