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Thousands demonstrated Tuesday night against the prime minister and the laws he is trying to pass in the Knesset that they believe are undermining democracy. The demonstrators from dozens of organizations gathered near the Prime Minister's residence on Balfour Street, and began marching towards the Knesset, where they demonstrated for about two hours and then returned to Balfour accompanied by District Commander Superintendent Doron Yedid and senior police officers. After 11 p.m., clashes broke out between protesters and police and six protesters were arrested. Police in riot gear stormed a...

The second wave that comes in the summer days, mass unemployment, business closures and protests, bring with them pessimism about citizens' economic situation in the country, and their economic situation in the household - according to a survey of consumer confidence for the first half of July, published today (Wednesday) by the Central Bureau of Statistics. CBS). Consumer confidence in the economy in the first half of July continues to fall to 28%, while in June it stood at a negative rate of 23%

Following the Corona crisis and the severe economic crisis affecting many workers in the economy and the self-employed in particular, Histadrut chairman Arnon Bar-David decided to fire them for the self-employed and ordered the establishment of a special fund to distribute food parcels to the self-employed and families in financial distress. Through the funds that will be deposited in the fund, the Histadrut will in the near future distribute thousands of food packages to the self-employed, each of which will include products worth NIS 350

The Knesset plenum approved on second and third reading the economic assistance program - a one-time grant for each resident. According to the approved plan, every resident over the age of 18 will be entitled to a grant of NIS 750, and an additional grant of NIS 500 for each child up to the fourth child in the family. Starting with the fifth child, a grant of NIS 300 will be received for each additional child. Earlier, Social Security announced that if the law passes today, on Sunday the grants will be transferred only to parents of children under the age of 18, and later the rest of the...

Cultural performances will resume immediately in open spaces. The complexes will be divided into capsules of up to 20 people in each group. Each performance will require prior approval from the Ministry of Health. This is the outline that was agreed upon on Sunday evening and presented at the end of a meeting of representatives of the cultural industry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Israel Katz, Minister of Culture and Sports Hili Trooper and Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein. Simultaneously with this meeting, several hundred people from the cultural industry...

The government is trying to fight the implications of the Corona crisis. it was reported this morning that the Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, and the Minister of Economy and Industry, Amir Peretz, agreed on a plan to encourage investment and employment in the manufacturing and high-tech industries in the amount of NIS 1.1 billion. Manufacturers Association. The program includes budgets to encourage investment, R&D and innovation as well as opening markets with an emphasis on enterprises affected by the crisis and retaining a significant proportion of their workers, a budget for...

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...