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According to the guidelines of the Home Front Command, studies will not be held tomorrow (Thursday) in most parts of the country - from the Gaza Strip to the localities of Gush Dan and the Sharon. Home Front Command guidelines also apply to Friday until the end of the school day. Since schoolchildren go on holiday for weeks, at this stage the studies are expected to resume on Wednesday, after Shavuot has been banned and only if there is an improvement in the security situation. Following the guidelines, about one million students will not attend school by Wednesday. The guidelines also...

In light of the security situation, foreign airlines continue to cancel their flights to and from Israel in the coming days. Only a few foreign airlines continue to operate flights to Israel, including the Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia, and meanwhile also the Ethiopian Airlines, which at this stage has not yet announced the cancellation of the upcoming flight that is scheduled to depart at 1:00 at night, Play Dubai, Aegean Scheduled to fly on Monday and others. The first to cancel the flights were the American airlines United, Delta and American Airlines, which announced last...

Judea and Samaria sector warms up, in parallel with the continuation of the operation in Gaza: 9 Palestinians were killed on Friday, according to the Palestinian Authority's official news agency, in clashes with IDF forces across Judea and Samaria. He was wounded in the hospital earlier in the day by a terrorist who tried to run over and stab soldiers near Ofra in Binyamin. In an attempt to ignite the fire in the West Bank as well, Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obeida sent a message to West Bank residents: "Congratulations on your uprising. Ignite the land under the feet of the...

International pressure on Israel is gaining momentum. Many countries express dissatisfaction with the continuation of Israel's massive attacks in the Gaza Strip, attacks that have killed more than one hundred and seventy Israelis. President Biden has twice called on Prime Minister Netanyahu and expressed concern about the number of innocent casualties in the Gaza Strip. China and the European Union are also putting pressure on Israel to end the fighting.

After staying in their homes for almost two weeks since the operation began in Gaza, today (Sunday) about 2.4 million students returned to school and kindergarten in the southern and central localities. In accordance with the directive of Education Minister Yoav Galant, the rehearsal began today and will be done gradually to allow each authority and school to prepare accordingly, until a full rehearsal tomorrow. The directive also applies to youth villages and boarding schools. The principal of the Alon School of Science in Sderot, Vered Afenger, said upon returning to school that "we feel...

Two young men in their 20s were injured in a stabbing attack, one of them seriously and the other lightly. They were stabbed on Haim Bar Lev Boulevard in Jerusalem, near the light rail station not far from the national police headquarters. MDA staff arrived at the scene and treated the two and evacuated them to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. Police officers who arrived at the scene began investigating the circumstances of the case, at the same time the terrorist was shot and neutralized. MDA paramedic Sigalit Mizrahi said: "We arrived at the scene and saw two wounded with stab wounds...

Following the criticism in recent days, Finance Minister Israel Katz instructed the professionals in his office to expand the outline of compensation to be given to businesses as part of the Wall Guard operation, so that businesses within 40-80 km of the Gaza Strip border will also be entitled to compensation. In the cities involved, any business owner who was injured during the riots and closed for at least 7 days will also be able to receive indirect compensation beyond the direct compensation. As part of the new outline that will be submitted to the Finance Committee for approval next...

The economy continues to recover. For the first time since the start of the Corona crisis, the percentage of unemployed in the Central Bureau of Statistics' expanding calculation fell from 10%, to 9.6% in the first half of May. The percentage of unemployed in the limited calculation used by the Treasury fell to 6.7%. This is according to data from the Labor Force Survey published by the CBS. However, it is likely that in the second half of May, in which Operation Wall Guard was conducted, the downward trend in the unemployment rate was halted

The Foreign Trade Administration at the Ministry of Economy and Industry will open a new economic diplomatic office in Abu Dhabi this summer, which will be a faith in the ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. The Economic offices will be a belief on behalf of the Ministry of Economy and Industry on strengthening trade and economic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates as well as on attracting foreign investment from the United Arab Emirates to the Israeli economy. Upon its establishment, this annex will join the system of economic annexes operated by the Foreign...

The head of the General Security Service, Nadav Argaman, issued a stern warning about the extremism in the public discourse in recent times, and said that there may be people who will interpret certain statements as a call for physical harm. "The State of Israel regrets on its banner the principle of freedom of expression, this is an important and necessary principle in a democratic state," wrote Argaman, who did not coordinate the announcement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "At the same time, in recent times we have identified an increase and severe extremism in the violent and...