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The rate of academics among women in management positions is higher than the corresponding figure for male managers. The same is true of seniority at work and experience. Managers also declare a higher level of commitment to the workplace from managers, and higher prices they pay on the family front - according to regular surveys conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Even when the number of weekly working hours is taken into account, managers earn about 30% more than managers on a monthly basis. A new study, based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, shows that after...

H2PRO, which develops technology for producing green hydrogen, is currently in the midst of a $ 70 million round of funding. The leading investor in the current round of funding is Temasek, a Singapore-owned holding company that manages the country's wealth fund with $ 283 billion in assets. In September 2020, Temasek acquired control of the Rivolis drip irrigation product manufacturer from the Pimi Fund at a company value of $ 456 million. It is estimated that the current round of funding for H2PRO will be based on a company value of $ 250-300 million before the investment

Google acquires the Israeli cyber company Simemplify for an estimated amount of hundreds of millions of dollars. A little while ago Google issued an official announcement about the deal. According to the announcement, Simplify will join the Google Cloud security team, "to help companies deal more successfully with cyber threats." This is Google's largest acquisition in Israel since it acquired Waze for $ 1 billion, and the first time it has acquired a company in the cyber field - which indicates its intention to establish an activity in the field of information security here for the first...

Another corona year has passed and the patterns of Internet use in Israel continue to surprise: The screen managed us this year as well - in one day we spend an average of 3.2 hours in front of the TV, 2.4 hours surfing the net, 2.1 gaming, and another 2.8 hours in which we scroll endlessly on social networks. WhatsApp is the undisputed queen - 90% of Israelis over the age of 18 are not willing to give up using the messaging app. At the time of the international glitch on meta servers (formerly Facebook, which owns WhatsApp), 25% of respondents chose not to communicate with other people....

The Austrian-based company Tricentis has announced the acquisition of the Israeli start-up Testim, which has developed an AI-based platform for testing automation offered as a cloud service. The value of the deal is estimated at $ 200 million. Testing will expand Tricentis' testing platform and help it simplify their automation and enable organizations to perform rigorous end-to-end testing quickly and easily. Trisentis customers will now have the flexibility to choose products and services that suit their needs, in a local installation model with a fee for annual licensing or in a cloud...

The escalation in relations between Russia and Ukraine and estimates that the situation could explode in the coming days, prompted this week the Israeli high-tech companies and the manpower companies that work with them, which together employ about 15,000 workers in Ukraine. The companies were organized ahead of time for temporary evacuation of workers and their families within the country (from east and south to west); For their transfer to neighboring countries such as Poland and Bulgaria; As well as finding alternative workspaces in case of need and providing satellite internet in case...

The Israeli high-tech industry is very fond of saying that there is a shortage of workers. Here comes the Central Bureau of Statistics trying to put things in order: 14,000 software developers are missing. However, this number expresses only a small part of the story. To think that only 14,000 workers are missing in high-tech is a form of thinking that is appropriate for a governmental and public body and not for an industry that is moving fast and not waiting for initiatives from the state

The Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Orit Farkash HaCohen, announced that she has issued a policy directive to the Innovation Authority, the main point of which is to set strict goals for significantly increasing the representation of ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, women, juniors and Israeli high-tech periphery. According to the Minister, this is a program based on comprehensive economic work carried out in recent months by the Ministry of Innovation, led by the Director General of the Ministry of Innovation, the Deputy CEO, Task Company and in collaboration with the Innovation...

The Economics Committee approved on second and third reading the amendment to the Traffic Ordinance, which would allow experiments in autonomous cars without having an operator in the vehicle. According to the Ministry of Transportation, this will allow the experiments to start this year. The number of vehicles in the experiments will be limited to 500, according to the proposal of the chairman of the Economics Committee, MK Michael Bitton (blue and white). The committee decided that many regulations would become an addition to the bill, to allow for their speedy enactment. Transport...

Israeli high-tech companies employing workers in Ukraine are in a major crisis. It is estimated that Israeli high-tech companies employ about 15,000 workers in the country, the vast majority of whom are developers. Ukrainian developers have become in demand due to being skilled workers seeking lower wages than is customary in Israel, as well as due to the fact that the flight distance is short and the time zone is the same. Even before the Russian invasion, start-ups began offering their workers in Ukraine packages of assistance or assistance in moving to another country. For example,...