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The 23rd Knesset dissolved and Israel entered a fourth election campaign within two years after failing to approve a budget for the State of Israel for 2020 until Tuesday at midnight. Meanwhile, the Constitution Committee unanimously approved on second and third reading the temporary directive for conducting the elections to the 24th Knesset during the Corona crisis. The Speaker of the Knesset, MK Yariv Levin, concludes the plenary session to dissolve the 23rd Knesset: Challenges, and yet also controversial.The controversies that exist in the public, found their expression naturally here...

Israel is on its way to a fourth election in less than two years. The Knesset plenum rejected on Tuesday night in the first reading the bill to postpone the date of the dissolution of the Knesset, and it appears that it will be dissolved at midnight. This is after no agreements were reached between the Likud and Blue and White, and the Likud's attempts to recruit a majority failed. MK Michal Shir from the party objected and announced that she would join Gideon Saar's new party and MK Sharan Hashakel (Likud) was absent. A majority of Blue and White MKs were absent, but three of them,...

The hacker group Pay2Key, which is suspected to be linked to Iran, released a database on Sunday evening that it said was stolen from the computers of IAI's Elta Division. The aerospace industry said the issue was under investigation. At least some of the names on the list do belong to Elta employees. For example, one employee whose name appeared on the list even appeared before a committee in the Knesset and whose name was published in the minutes of the same committee that is available on the Internet. The Iranian hacker group has already revealed last week that it has managed to break...

The Ministry of Health has issued an import permit for the rapid test kit for the detection of the corona virus by the global medical technology giant Ketone Dickinson (BD) for immediate use in Israel. The test, dubbed Veritor, was approved by the regulatory authorities in the United States and Europe several months ago. The kit works on the basis of identifying proteins from the envelope of the virus (antigens), and allows a result to be obtained within about 15 minutes. It is simple to operate, and will be approved for use in laboratories. In the future, home operation may be possible...

The employment rate in the economy has fallen from 61% to 50% since the beginning of the crisis - but this figure does not reflect the intensity of social disparities: the employment rate of the bottom quintile of income was 29% lower in October relative to the eve of the crisis, compared to only 6%. In the top quintile. That is, the decline in employment among the weakest was 5 times greater than that recorded among the strongest. This emerges from a review of the effect of the second closure on the labor market published today (Sunday) by the chief economist at the Treasury, Shira...

The Israeli start-up Innoviz, which develops Lidar sensors that help autonomous vehicles identify their surroundings, announced today (Friday) that it will be listed for trading on NASDAQ in early 2021. The registration will be done by a merger with SPAC called Collective Grot. (Collective Growth) Collective is a content public company that has raised $ 150 million for one purpose - locating a private merger company. In such a merger process, Invis is expected to gain access to the Spock funds and another $ 200 million from investors, including institutional entities such as the Phoenix...

The first shipment of corona vaccines landed on Wednesday in Israel. With the arrival of the shipment, which includes between 3,000 and 4,000 vaccines created by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein spoke at Ben-Gurion Airport. Netanyahu has stated that he will be the first Israeli citizen to be vaccinated, to serve as an example to the public. "I have served as Israeli prime minister for quite a few years, and this is one of the most exciting moments," Netanyahu said. "This is a holiday for Israel." "It is not obvious...

The Corona Cabinet approved tonight (Tuesday) the operation of all malls from tomorrow, in accordance with the rules of the malls pilot. In addition, all markets and museums will be able to open, depending on the outline formulated for them. Also, in accordance with the opening of trading, it was approved to cancel the exception set during the closure period for operating stores for home maintenance and communication products and computers in the format of "essential stores", and to compare the occupancy conditions with those of other non-essential stores. Meanwhile, the decision to impose...

Throughout a decade, the achievements of Israeli students in mathematics and science have remained unchanged, but the gaps in Israel are still among the highest in the world. This is according to the International Times report for 2019, which will be published this morning. According to the report, there is a slight increase in the achievements of 8th grade students in Israel in mathematics and science, but the gaps between outstanding students and weak students remain among the highest among the countries that participated in the study. According to the study, the higher the...

Between March-October this year, 2,586 more Israelis died than in these months in 2019. That means this year there are 9% more deceased. This is according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, which is published at noon (Thursday). The CBS said that the difference compared to 2019 is mainly in the months of August to October, when 2,207 corona patients died in Israel - 960 of them in October alone. The CBS added that the total mortality rate from the end of March - when the first deaths in Israel were recorded from the corona - until the end of October was 10.4% higher than the...