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The number of recipients of academic degrees has decreased by 3%, from 79,600 in the 2018/19 school year to 77,200 in 2019/20. A particularly high decrease of 6.4% was recorded in the number of master's degree recipients from 25,700 to 24,000 and in particular in academic colleges (13.4%). There was a more moderate decrease in undergraduate recipients (1.5%). This is according to data on recipients of academic degrees in 2020, published today by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The decline is due, among other things, to the slowdown in the number of students in recent years

Binyamina is defined today as a red city according to the traffic light plan for the fight against Corona, due to the surge in morbidity in its territory. The definitions in the program have no practical significance since the removal of the restrictions in recent weeks, but they reflect high data on the number of patients in the city, the rate of positive tests and a change in the number verified in the last week. There have been no red settlements in Israel since March 30. Intelligence is defined as yellow today, and the rest of the cities in the country are green. Meanwhile, the upward...

"The framework of labor relations and wage rules in the public sector in Israel have remained almost unchanged since the 1950s." This is stated in a report on the wage strategy in the public sector in Israel, published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which includes a review of the wage mechanisms and bargaining systems in the public sector in Israel, along with operational proposals for efficiency. In the report, the authors point to various characteristics of the salaries of public sector workers in Israel, which they claim adversely affect...

The unpaid vacation law was approved in the Knesset on second and third reading at the end of an exhausting night of debates and about 75 votes in the plenum. The law stops extending unemployment benefits to over 200,000 Corona unemployed by the age of 45. This means they will still receive payment for the month of June but will not receive any payment for July. The Minister of Finance passed in the Knesset his decision to take a stricter line on the issue of extending unemployment benefits with almost no changes, with the help of the chairman of the finance committee from his party, MK...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Justice Minister Gideon Saar, and Deputy Prime Minister Avir Kara held a press conference in which they presented a "national plan to reduce regulation and bureaucracy." The trials, already six months ago, during the previous government term. Prime Minister Bennett said that prices in Israel are very high and the government headed by him is not ready to accept the reality. "The truth must be told, the real cause of business awkwardness and the cost of living is the government itself. Everything is going to change, the...

Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman begins work. The Minister announced today (Wednesday) that he is returning the criterion for maximizing earning capacity in order to receive a subsidy in day care centers worth approximately NIS 1,800 per child. It will be recalled that Foreign Minister Yair Lapid introduced this section when he served as Minister of Finance, but immediately after he ended his term, this section was repealed so that ultra-Orthodox families were no longer required to go to work to receive the subsidy. In order to encourage integration in the employment market, the Minister...

The draft law of arrangements presented by the Ministry of Finance includes reference to the issue of public transport, which is of critical importance in view of the exacerbating crisis on the roads, but ignores possible solutions. It should be emphasized that this is a draft that is expected to change until it is approved. Although the law includes reference to enforcement on public transport routes and the Treasury recommends paving more such routes, it does not include increasing the frequency of buses traveling on these routes. Also, the law does not include congestion charges - a...

The Ministry of Health is preparing for the number of passengers leaving and departing from Ben Gurion Airport during the summer months, and for this purpose they made a forecast of the number of corona patients expected to enter the country from different countries - based on flights and morbidity. On 4,037 flights. The morbidity rate estimated by the Ministry of Health is 0.11% - so that in the coming month another 518 new verified people are expected to enter Israel. Segmented by country, Turkey is expected to be the country from which the most patients will arrive - 104. This is when,...

The Ministry of Economy and Industry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and the Innovation Authority, launched the Energy Innovation Community in Israel. The innovation community is expected to build an engine of economic growth in a market valued at $ 1 trillion a year David Lefler, Director General of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, in front of hundreds at the conference: "The technologies in Israel exist and are excellent. The problem is in the application and assimilation of the technologies in the Israeli market and in the Israeli reality. Only cooperation between the...

About a month after he stopped being prime minister and about 12 years after he began his second term in office, the longest in the history of Israeli governments, opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu vacated the official residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem on Saturday night. The Netanyahu family left the residence shortly after midnight. Netanyahu agreed on the current evacuation of the center with his successor, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, but then the two agreed that he would vacate the center by Saturday. Prior to the evacuation, one transport truck left the residence hall on...