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The public has suffered in 2020 the most severe damage to its economic situation in the last twenty years. According to the report, the decline in living standards in Israel in 2020 was the largest recorded in the country since the Great Recession in 2001. Households from the middle-class deciles suffered the most economic damage while families from the highest decile suffered less income. Thus, incomes Of households in the fifth and sixth deciles decreased in 2020 by about 5% compared to 2019, in the seventh decile income decreased by 4.3%, and in the eighth decile by 4%. In the ninth...

There was a significant increase in the corona 2020 in the government debt of Israel and in the public debt, which includes the debts of local authorities. Taking out large-scale loans for government spending to fight the virus and aid the economy, caused for the first time in 11 years a significant increase in debt and this increase is expected to continue in 2021. However, it must be said honestly. A debt of 73% is a very impressive rate. We are very far from a real economic crisis. Even if it grows to 80% this year, we are very far from a real economic crisis

The district court today (Wednesday) rejected the appeal filed by Twitter against a decision given in September in the Magistrate's Court - in which it was determined that Linoy Bar-Geffen could file a defamation lawsuit against the company in Israel. The lawsuit, for NIS 300,000, was filed by Bar Geffen in 2019 against Twitter (+ 3.89% 47.72) - after she asked her twice to remove an abusive and blatant tweet posted against her and her partner - and was denied. Only after contacting lawyer Guy Ophir and he turned to Twitter, the tweet was removed. According to Bar Geffen, her inquiries...

The tightened closure will last longer than planned: On Tuesday evening, the government approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to extend the tightened closure by 10 days. Thus, the severe restrictions that were supposed to expire after two weeks this coming Thursday - will last until Sunday 31 January at midnight. At the same time, it was decided that a negative corona test would apply 72 hours before departure from abroad to Israel. The tight closure was supposed to end on Thursday this week, but the morbidity data led to its extension. , Yesterday a record of more than...

Israel is at the forefront of enforcing restrictions as part of the fight against the corona virus. This is according to data collected by the Israel Police from its partners around the world. For comparison, 30,000 reports have been distributed in the UK so far, compared to 522,000 reports distributed in Israel. This emerges from data presented by the Israel Police. In recent months, the Israel Police has been holding online meetings with police around the world in order to learn about their challenges there, and try to find solutions to local challenges. Among other things, the police...

The Ministry of Communications imposes a high fine on Hot after it thwarted the wholesale market reform. The ministry imposed an unusual fine of NIS 6 million on the cable company. The fine was imposed after the Ministry of Communications, according to the Ministry of Communications, prevented the implementation of the reform for about a year, and made it difficult for Internet providers without infrastructure to lease infrastructure segments and market them to consumers. The wholesale market reform required Bezeq and Hot to allow competitors to ride on their infrastructure. The reform...

The Ministry of Health announced today (Tuesday) that starting tomorrow, HMO insured persons aged 50 and over will be able to be vaccinated against the corona virus. The ministry said that the health funds should be contacted to schedule an appointment for the vaccine. Lowering the age of those allowed to be vaccinated comes at the same time as the teaching staff vaccination campaign that began today. 39,678 people were vaccinated against the virus yesterday, and so far 1.9 million Israelis have been vaccinated. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 73% of citizens over the age of 60...

The Employment Service reports this morning (Monday) that in the last day 18,566 new jobseekers were registered, with 39,308 unemployed registered since the closure and since Sunday, 27.12.2020, the day the closure began, a total of 99,234 new jobseekers were registered. The update also shows that 81,923 of the unemployed were released on unpaid leave, and their share of all new job seekers is 82.5%, while 17,311 of them have been fired or resigned and their share stands at 17.5% of all registrants since the closure began

The Center for the Collection of Fines in the Enforcement and Collection Authority, which collects the corona fines imposed by the police, reports this morning (Monday) that in the last 12 days, Israeli citizens have been given about 52,000 fines in the amount of NIS 42 million. Since the beginning of the crisis, citizens who violated the regulations have been fined NIS 510,000, in the amount of NIS 312 million. Over 90% of the fines were given for not wearing a mask. One-third of the requests for cancellation of reports filed by citizens against Corona fines issued by police were granted....

The Ministry of Health will consider starting easing the closure in about two weeks if the morbidity data continues to fall. During the progress of the vaccination program will also be taken into account. Meanwhile, there is controversy in the government over whether to allow a large-scale opening of the economy as soon as there are two and a half million Israelis who will be vaccinated in two doses or wait until the vaccination of five million Israelis is completed. Our correspondent Liel Kaiser submits that at the current rate of immunization, such a wait would last three to four weeks....