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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...

The Ministry of Finance is expected to announce in the coming days assistance to the aviation and tourism industries in Israel, in light of the fear that these industries will suffer another severe blow in the coming months due to the spread of the new Corona strain, Omicron, and additional restrictions on flights. On Sunday, the Ministry of Finance decided that there is no escape from assistance to these two industries, which have been affected more than any other industry in the economy since the Corona crisis began in March 2020. However, it is now clear that further heavy damage is...

The Ministry of Communications informed the communications company HOT that it is imposing a financial sanction of NIS 6 million on it, subject to a hearing, because it did not meet its commitment to deploy Internet infrastructure in peripheral localities. This is a violation of the company's obligation to deploy Internet and cellular infrastructure in about 200 of Israel's localities, as an alternative service to the cable infrastructure that the company is obligated to provide throughout Israel by law. This is the second fine of NIS 6 million that the ministry imposes on HOT in less than...

During 2021, Israel's population has grown by about 160,000 people and stands at about 9,449 million inhabitants - according to data published today (Thursday) by the Central Bureau of Statistics. The increase in the population of Israel was largely due to a natural increase in the population, a positive difference between the born and the dead, which is 83%. The percentage increase of the population is 1.7%. 74% of the population are Jews, and their number is 6.982 million. About 21% of the population are Arabs, numbering 1.995 million, and 742,000 are others

The Ministry of Transportation and the Tel Aviv Municipality have announced that the new central station in the city will continue to operate in the coming years. According to the agreement between the parties, the evacuation of the station will be completed within four years. Within about two years, about 50% of the activity at the station will be transferred to bus terminals to be built on Harash Street and on the Tel Aviv-Holon border. Sources involved in the matter doubted that the plan would actually be implemented within the defined time periods, and estimated that the activity at...

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

Is there a chance to end in a gainplea deal the saga of the Netanyahu trial, which has been going on for five years since the first investigation broke out? The attorney general of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Adv. Boaz Ben-Zur, recently raised this possibility in contacts with the State Attorney's Office. The gaps between the parties are narrowing: Is former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the way to a plea deal? Following the publication of the State Attorney's' willingness to close the 2000 case as part of a possible plea agreement - it appears that there is only one...

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...