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The State Attorney's Office filed an indictment against MK Haim Katz as part of a plea agreement signed with him, according to which he will be fined and given a suspended sentence only. As part of the plea bargain, the offense of fraud and breach of trust attributed to Katz was reduced to the offense of conspiracy to achieve a kosher purpose by improper means. This, at the end of negotiations that lasted a year between his defense attorneys and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and the State Attorney's Office. Katz, who will be represented by attorneys Noyet Negev, Yana Fogel and Tuval...

Israel approved on Sunday night the outline of inbound tourism to Israel. The Corona Cabinet approved in a telephone poll the outline of the tourist groups initiated by Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and Tourism Minister Yoel Rezbozov. The entry of tourist groups to Israel began as early as September, but now - in accordance with the approval of the outline, tourist groups will be able to enter the country even if they are not vaccinated with a third vaccine, provided they confirm a negative result in a recent corona test. According to the new outline, which will take effect tomorrow,...

Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman has decided to increase compensation for businesses affected by the Corona crisis in 2020. The compensation will be given as a one-time grant. The Ministry of Finance has established several assistance routes for businesses that have been affected due to the decrease in the scope of their activities. After examining the entitlements and providing a response to businesses that were particularly severely affected during 2020. Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman: "Thanks to the responsible conduct of the government and the preservation of business sector...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Ministry Director General Prof. Nachman Ash announced Sunday that the government is preparing to purchase Pfizer's drug for Corona patients in Israel. Why is it different from previous epidemic treatments, how effective is it, who will receive it and in what dosage, and is Israel really lagging behind other countries in negotiations with the pharmaceutical company? Dr. Erez Gerty of the Davidson Institute, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute, explains that “if the results are correct, there is a significant change here in the way we deal...

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,...

Israel has a budget for next year and 2022. The Knesset approved the Budget Law on second and third reading. Sixty-one MKs supported the budget law and fifty-nine opposed yesterday. Friday's vote for the 2022 budget 59 MK supported and 56 MK opposed. Thus, the possibility of overthrowing the government was avoided due to the failure to transfer the budget on time. Knesset members from the coalition hugged at the end of the vote and some of them were photographed on their mobile phones. This morning, the plenum will continue to vote on the other budget laws: the budget law for the year...

After last week's devastating attack on Cyberserv's servers and the disclosure of details from the Atref website: A denial of service (DDoS) attack shut down the DNS service of the Israeli company Domain the Net, which is one of the domain name registers (early evening). Domains) The largest in the country for co.il addresses on behalf of the Israeli Internet Association. According to many complaints from the company's customers who also came to us, many sites, estimated by several thousand, began to experience access issues and stopped receiving emails. As far as is known, this is not an...

On Wednesday afternoon, the US Department of Commerce dropped a bombshell: it announced that two Israeli companies, NSO and Kandiro, were blacklisted as entities acting against the national interest of the United States, in light of repression aided by the company in authoritarian countries and against democracies. "Foreign governments have served as a means of repression and silence in authoritarian regimes and as a tool against regime opponents, journalists and exiled activists." The decision means that companies will have to issue a special license to trade in the US, but it will also...

The Minister of Finance, the Governor of the Bank of Israel, the Chairman of the Histadrut, the Chairman of the Presidents of Employers and Businesses in Israel and the President of the Manufacturers' Association and the Chairman of the Presidents of the Business Sector, agreed on a "package deal" in the economy: Gradually raising the minimum wage to NIS 6,000; Employment flexibility and tools to stimulate the economy; Certainty in labor relations in the public sector. The package deal brings workers in line - the minimum wage will gradually rise to NIS 6,000, which will help reduce gaps...

The housing market is boiling: According to a survey by the chief economist at the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg, 14.1 thousand apartments were purchased in August alone, the highest level since the historic record in June 2015. This is a 31% increase compared to August last year and an 8% increase compared to last July. It should be noted that the level of transactions in August 2020 was high in itself against the background of a jump in investor purchases, after the purchase tax was lowered at the end of July that year. The survey shows that investors bought about three thousand...