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Daylight saving time will end on Sunday morning. Tomorrow Saturday night we will be enjoying for the last time daylight saving time until March next year. The savings for the Israeli economy from operating daylight saving time, which ends tomorrow night, between Saturday and Sunday at two in the morning, are estimated at more than NIS 400 million. If these figures are correct it would be possible to enjoy them all year round. There is room for daylight saving time all year round even in winter. In the summer days from the end of May to the end of October it was possible to move the hands...

Between Sunday and Monday, the price of fuel will increase by 23 agorot compared to the previous month and will be a maximum price of NIS 6.62 per liter of unleaded 95-octane gasoline for the consumer at the self-service station. The supplement for full service will be 21 cents per liter. This is an increase of about 24% compared to November last year when the price was NIS 5.34 per liter

Israel will be officially opened to inbound tourism tomorrow with a new outline formulated by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Tourism, under which vaccinated and recovering tourists will be able to enter Israel. This is the first time the state has allowed single tourists to officially enter Israel since the start of the Corona crisis. At the same time, a new corona test system will begin operating tomorrow at Ben Gurion Airport, with Pangia replacing Omega (Check to Play) with tests for departing tourists. The new tourist entry plan states that foreigners who have been...

The climate conference is coming to an end and there is no doubt that world leaders have made many statements about improving the state of global pollution and the war on greenhouse gases and other pollutants on the planet. "Climatic events such as heat waves, which were relatively rare, have become the 'norm' in recent years when this year we also witnessed the nights becoming warmer so the damage to crops was greater than before." Data from Kent (the Fund for Natural Damage Insurance in Agriculture) show that in the last six years there has been a 60% increase in compensation for farmers...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Deputy Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman convened a special press conference on Saturday, after the coalition succeeded in passing the state budget for the years 2022-2021. "At a good time the budget for 2022-2021 has passed." Bennett opened solemnly. He emphasized the ability of the coalition partners to work together, in a way that ensured political and economic stability for the State of Israel. "We have completed the complex move of expelling Israel from three years of instability," Bennett said. "Quietly, consistently,...

The Natural Resources Taxation Law passed on Wednesday evening by a majority of 9 MKs against 0 opponents and entered the law book of the State of Israel after long months of discussions and delays. In this way, the "wealth fund", to which taxes from gas profits are directed, will probably accumulate more than a billion shekels in 2022, and the money will be able to be used for public use. Thanks to the amendment to the law, levies over $ 200 million, the payment of which has been delayed for a long time due to disputes with the tax authority, will soon be paid for the benefit of all...

Israel and Jordan signed an agreement on Monday under which Israel will purchase solar electricity from Jordan and Israel will supply it with desalinated water. Nevertheless, question marks may make it difficult to implement the move - despite Jordan's urgent need for water and Israel's desire to increase its use of solar electricity to meet its electricity generation targets from renewable sources. According to a joint statement to Israel, Jordan, the United States and the United Arab Emirates, where the signing ceremony was held, the Minister of Energy, Karin Elharar, the Minister of...

During the month of October, 25,402 jobseekers with disabilities were registered in the employment service, which constituted 9.1% among all jobseekers in that month. This emerges from a special report published by the Employment Service on the occasion of the International Day for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which took place on Friday. Although this is a relatively low rate for the proportion of people with disabilities among the general population since according to the CBS (as of 2020) 12% of those aged 20 and over have a severe functional disability and 29% of those aged...

The number of unemployed dropped to 292.2 thousand - still almost double the number on the eve of the corona crisis, at the beginning of 2020, which amounted to only about 160,000 unemployed. New data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics shows that in the first half of November the number of unemployed decreased, by broad definition, compared with the second half of October, by about 16.4 thousand. This is a particularly high rate of return to work - from 308.6 thousand in the second half of October to 292.2 thousand in the first half of November. The rate decreased from 7.3% for...

The Minister of Education, Dr. Yifat Shasha-Bitton, fired the director of her office, Yigal Slovik, in an unusual move. This is an unusual move, as it is the immediate dismissal of an incumbent CEO, in the middle of the school year and in the middle of the corona crisis and a large-scale vaccination campaign. According to government sources, the disagreements between Slovik and Shasha-Biton, which led to the unusual move, arose against the background of his support for the new vaccination campaign in schools that began today, and the minister's opposition to the operation. Cause that they...