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South Korea rose to first place in the Bloomberg Innovation Index, after Germany, which was in first place last year, dropped to fourth place. The United States, on the other hand, dropped out of the top 10 after being in ninth place in 2020, while Israel was ranked seventh, down one step from last year. The Asian nation is now in first place in seven of the nine years the index is published. One and ranked second and third respectively. The Bloomberg Index analyzes dozens of criteria using seven equivalent metrics, including research and development spending, manufacturing capacity, and...

The average wage in 2020 was NIS 11,538, an increase of 7% compared to 2019, according to CBS data published today (Thursday). The number of jobs per employee was 3.369 million - a decrease of 10% compared to the past year. Were recorded in the hospitality and food services industry with a decrease of 41% in the number of employee jobs and in the arts, entertainment and leisure industry in which there was a decrease of 35.7% in the number of employee jobs. Since 2012, the average wage in the economy has increased by 1.7% -3.6% compared to the previous year, but due to the corona crisis,...

A few days ago, the Israeli government signed a contract with Amazon and Google, the happy winners of the first tender in the "Nimbus Project" for the provision of cloud services to the Israeli government sector. The winners will be required to establish cloud areas in Israel (Region) in the next two years; Until established, the winners will provide cloud services from the Netherlands, Germany and Ireland. The tender is valid for 7 years, with the possibility of extensions up to a period of 23 years in total. The Nimbus project is intended to enable government ministries, security bodies...

Bezeq reported to the stock exchange tonight (Tuesday) that it intends to deploy fiber optics for 80% of households in Israel - within 6 years. The Ministry of Communications, which formulated the fiber outline, managed to push the most significant player in the market after years in which Bezeq refrained from deploying fiber optics and connecting homes to high-speed Internet infrastructure. The company - which has invested hundreds of millions of shekels in the project to date - has reported that it intends to continue investing another Billions of shekels in it

The Israeli high-tech industry does not stop breaking records. According to Start Up Nation Central (SNC), a company that connects the Israeli high-tech industry to organizations and investors from around the world, start-up companies in Israel have raised over $ 10.5 billion since the beginning of the year - the amount raised in 2020 as a whole. In the last few days alone, Gong and Verbit have announced huge fundraisers of $ 250 million and $ 157 million, respectively. The huge fundraising phenomenon of high-tech companies coming close to their other fundraisers is another feature of the...

Years of regulatory stagnation, problematic government policies and the relentless exchange of ministers in the responsible ministry have brought the Israeli communications market to a significant laggard vis-à-vis the Western world in terms of communications infrastructure - both fixed and mobile. An internal report by Dr. Ofer Raz-Dror, VP of Economics at the Ministry of Communications, presents a rather bleak picture of the country's infrastructure. Israel lags significantly behind the world in deploying stationary infrastructure and is below the EU average, very far from the...

After the average wage in the economy for Israeli workers rose in February and March and reached a peak of NIS 12,740 - it fell in April by 6.9% compared to the previous month to NIS 11,661. This is according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). During the crisis, which may explain the sharp decline in the average wage this month. The largest increase in the number of employee jobs was in the accommodation and food services industry - 12.5% ​​and in the entertainment and leisure arts industry - 11.1%. These industries were the main victims of the Corona crisis, and...