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Delek Drilling reported today (Monday) that it has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the sale of its entire share in the Tamar reservoir (22%) to the Mubadella Petroleum Company in Abu Dhabi. The company is part of Abu Dhabi's national investment company, which manages assets worth about $ 230 billion. This is the largest commercial agreement signed between the countries since the normalization agreements with the Emirates and it was signed as part of the gas outline in which Delek Drilling undertook to sell its holdings (22%) in the Tamar reservoir by the end of 2021....

The salary report for 2019 published today (Tuesday) by the Minister of Finance's salary, Kobi Bar-Natan, once again reports a particularly high salary paid to hundreds of employees in public bodies, up to an average monthly salary cost of NIS 119,000 for the 12 senior employees in the PA Airports. The report again includes serious data on huge wage gaps between men and women in public bodies, although the wage commissioner has made efforts in this area in recent years and told us today that "we see some improvement in this area." The wage gap between men and women continues to be high...

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