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The Ministry of Education will abolish the matriculation exams in history, literature, citizenship and the Bible, and they will be replaced by internal assignments and multidisciplinary work. Under the new program, schools will be allowed to choose the teaching method of the four subjects '. "We decided on the change to give students a chance to stop memorizing, and really get interested," Education Minister Shasha-Bitton said at a news conference. Regarding the teachers 'union's opposition to the new program, the Minister of Education replied that the teachers' terms of employment would...

Holocaust Martyrs 'and Heroes' Remembrance Day will begin tonight at 8 p.m., at the state rally at Yad Vashem. The main theme this year is "Trails to Doom - The Deportation of Jews during the Holocaust". Data from the National Insurance Institute show that there are slightly more than one hundred and sixty-one thousand survivors of the Holocaust in Israel - almost a third of whom receive a supplement to their income for a "senior citizen" pension. 161,400 Holocaust survivors and victims of antisemitic harassment during the Holocaust live in Israel - according to data published today...

At Mount Herzl in Jerusalem opens tonight (Wednesday) the celebrations of the 74th Independence Day of the State of Israel with the traditional beacon lighting ceremony - which for the first time in two years was held without any corona restrictions, and thousands came to the audience. This year, the ceremony was held under the banner "A hand meets a sister's hand," and 13 Israelis were chosen to light the 12 beacons symbolizing the 12 tribes of Israel. As a sign of consideration with the battle shocks, and as municipalities across the country have done, there will be no fireworks at the...

Sanctions by El Al workers' committees disrupt the company's regular activities on Independence Day. Mechanics at the company abandoned their positions this morning before the civilian flight of the airlines, and following the protest, El Al is not participating in the civilian flight. The EL AL workers' protest took place after the Minister of Transportation, Rabbi Michaeli, spoke this morning at the opening of the launch event of the Israeli Civil Aviation aircraft of Independence Day

The Finance Committee of the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality has approved the doubling of the hourly parking fee in blue and white for visitors to the city center who are not residents. This will increase the price of parking from NIS 6.30 per hour today to NIS 12.60. The city council is expected to approve the change at its next meeting on May 23, and a month later it will take effect. The change in the tariff was made possible thanks to the "parking reform" that underwent the latest arrangement law, which, among other things, allowed the municipalities to raise the price of parking above NIS...

No plans, no manpower, no professional knowledge and no trust from the public - this is the bleak picture that emerges from the State Comptroller's report when it comes to dealing with the online crime law enforcement system (or cybercrime). According to estimates, in 2020 the global damage from cybercrime was about $ 6 trillion, and it is expected to reach $ 10.5 trillion by 2025. In Israel, the number of investigative cases dealing with cybercrime increased between 2016 and 2020 by about 250% to 8,821 Bags.

Fathers will be able to receive maternity leave lasting between two weeks and a month at the expense of the state, without offsetting the mother's maternity leave - this is the reform announced today by Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman (Israel Beiteinu) and Transport Minister Merav Michaeli (Labor). The cost to the state budget will reach hundreds of millions of shekels a year. Today, women in Israel after a normal birth are entitled to 15 weeks of unpaid work leave, and then to unpaid leave at their own expense up to one year after the birth. At the same time, fathers can take...

Ahead of a discussion to be held Wednesday in the Knesset's Interior Committee on the lack of queues at the Population Authority last year, the PA announced that a new dedicated center will be opened next week that will add hundreds of queues a day for the issuance of temporary passports. The temporary passport center will operate in the center of the country (near the Ayalon Mall, in Bnei Brak) and will be a center for anyone who has not had time to renew a passport before their expected trip. The center will issue temporary passports for a period of two years, at the same cost as a...

At the end of long hours, and after the exchange of attacks between the coalition and the opposition, the proposal to finance studies for discharged soldiers was finally approved tonight (Monday to Tuesday). The Likud agreed to accept a compromise proposal presented at the last minute by Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, according to which the funding will be 75% of the tuition fee, along with an immediate transfer of the money to the fighters. The coalition had a hard time finding the majority for long hours. Ra'am chairman Mansour Abbas pledged to support the vote - but there was no certainty...

Report for 2021 of the employment arm of the Ministry of Economy and Industry: The employment rate of ultra-Orthodox and Arab women in the fourth quarter of 2021 was high compared to 2019, on the eve of the corona crisis, and even reached the employment target set by the government for 2030 - 81%. This is the highest figure in the rate of women among ultra-Orthodox women in Israel, and very close to the employment rate of non-ultra-Orthodox Jewish women, which stood at 83% in the fourth quarter of 2021. However, it is interesting to note that a recently published report by the News...