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A proposal that will go up for a vote on Sunday in front of the ministers effectively eliminates the green label in malls, street stores and shopping centers - and will introduce a strict purple label that includes occupancy restriction depending on the store area (excluding food and pharma stores). According to the proposal, stores with an area larger than 100 square meters will be able to admit customers according to a key of 15 square meters per person, and stores smaller than that - 7 square meters per customer or four customers for the entire store, whichever is higher

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gave the green light for the establishment of the State Commission of Inquiry into the Submarine Affair, and the vote on this will be submitted to the government for approval at its next meeting on Sunday. The decision was made after discussions between Prime Minister and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, Justice Minister Gideon Saar and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. Gantz, who more than any other government minister promoted the establishment of the committee, welcomed the agreements: "This is a national need, and I thank the prime minister, the foreign minister,...

More than five years after suspicions of corruption in the purchase of submarines from Germany were first revealed, the government will approve on Sunday at its weekly meeting the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the affair. The committee, chaired by a judge, will be empowered to investigate the decision-making processes of the political echelon in relation to procurement processes and vessel transactions, as well as the involvement of former security officers and senior officials as intermediaries in large security transactions. The proposal, promoted by Defense...

The Knesset's Labor and Welfare Committee approved the understandings reached by the Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, and the chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Efrat Reitan, who agreed to participate in financing the expenses of the self-employed during the days of isolation. This is an addition to the layout of the isolation days for the self-employed by increasing the daily rate given for an isolation day to NIS 570, an increase of 33% to the original amount of NIS 430, which was based on the tariff set in the Wall Guard operation. The announcement was made to the...

The Minister of Transportation, Merav Michaeli, ordered the addition of bus stops at the entrances to ten Bedouin localities in the Negev, some of which are illegally recognized. Notice of the addition of the stations was sent to the Coalition Labor Party's partner, the RAAM Party. Two bus stops have recently been set up at the entrance to the new Bedouin settlement, Abda, located on Road 40 north of Mitzpe Ramon. The settlement has recently received official recognition from the state, as part of the coalition agreement with RAAM. The other stations will be built mostly, at the entrance...

Thousands of Israelis are trying to escape from Ukraine, which is fighting heroically in Russia. Last night he was accidentally shot by an Israeli while making his way from Kiev in a convoy heading for Moldova in an attempt to leave the country fighting the Russians. Roman Brodsky was killed and an effort is now being made to fly his body to Israel. He worked in Kiev for about two years and lived there. His father, Yafim Brodsky, said that in recent days Roman had reported to him about the escalation. "All the time we are only getting worse and worse. At night they sleep in the underground...

The General Security Service announced on Friday that it had reached agreements with the security authorities in the United Arab Emirates that would allow Israeli companies to continue flying to Dubai. Last month, there was concern that the activity of Israeli airlines on the Israel-Dubai route would be stopped next week, due to a security dispute between the security authorities in Dubai and the Israeli aviation security system.

The government committee that examined the brokerage gaps concluded that the reason the Israeli consumer pays much more for fruits and vegetables is the fault of the farmers and not the marketing chains. As of 2020, the total consumption market for fruits and vegetables in Israel was NIS 29.1 billion per year. Of this amount, the volume of consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables was about NIS 24.7 billion. According to the results of the joint government committee for the director general of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, Dr. Ron Malka, the director general of the Ministry of...

Israel is among the ten happiest countries in the world, according to the World Happiness Report published today, this is the tenth year. Israel was ranked ninth in the ranking, compared to 11th place in 2021 and 14th place in 2020. Finland is the happiest country in the world for the fifth year in a row in the ranking, where more than 150 countries are ranked. The ranking is published by a body called the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and is based on data from a Gallup global survey, along with other variables such as per capita GDP and life expectancy. Finland's...

The Arab and mixed cities continue to lead the list of cities with the highest rates of job seekers even in February. This emerges from data published today (Tuesday) by the Employment Service. Of the ten cities with the highest rate of job seekers in Israel, on the second anniversary of the Corona crisis, six are Arab, one mixed (Acre), and three more from the northern and southern periphery - Dimona, Safed and Tiberias. At the top of the list is Umm al-Fahm, which is the only city with a rate of job seekers higher than 10%, with a rate of 10.1% in February. It was followed by Rahat with...