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The average wage in the economy in September per employee post was NIS 11,373, an increase of 4.9% compared to the corresponding month last year (NIS 10,840). Among the main reasons: layoffs and expenses for low-wage workers. However, in September, the average wage per employee fell by 1.6% compared to the previous month, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published on Thursday. In high-tech, the increase in wages is even sharper: an employee in the field earned an average of NIS 24,327 in September, an increase of 5.3% compared to the corresponding month last...

Good news for Enlivex, which is traded on the stock exchange at a value of NIS 394 million. The company achieved positive intermediate results in a Phase 2 clinical trial in corona patients in a difficult and critical condition, which they treated using the drug Allocerta. Of the eight corona patients who were recruited for the trial, six in critical condition and two in critical condition, seven fully recovered and were discharged from the hospital after less than five days on average from the date of treatment. The eighth patient who was recruited in a critical condition for drug...

In a discussion held on Thursday between representatives of the HMOs and the Ministry of Health on the subject of corona vaccines, the representatives of the HMOs were surprised to discover that vaccine doses are expected to arrive in Israel in a much larger amount than initially expected. According to the information received by the HMOs, the vaccines in the first delivery will arrive in two beats and in each beat two million vaccine doses will be received. The shipment may arrive in Israel as early as the end of December or the beginning of January. Following the vaccination campaign...

After last week about 4,500 Israelis paid the fines imposed on them for violating the corona regulations in the total amount of NIS 2.4 million, the 100,000 reported reports line was crossed. This is reported by the Center for the Collection of Fines in the Enforcement and Collection Authority. The center reports that in the past week, about 11,000 corona reports were issued to citizens in the amount of about NIS 8 million. In the last month, Israelis were given an average of 11,000 corona fines a week. Since the beginning of the corona crisis, more than 376,000 fines have been distributed

The Ministry of Health announced hat 1,227 people have been diagnosed with Corona in the past day - a record of a month and a half of infections per day. This increased the number of verified infections in Israel to 357,207 people. Yesterday, results were obtained for 57,428 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 2.1%. The test data and their results are not final and may change in subsequent updates from the Ministry of Health. "Unfortunately, I expect that in the next week or two we will see the numbers go up, because we are in the adhesion coefficient R above 1,"...

Israir announced tonight (Monday) that it has received permission to take off tomorrow for the United Arab Emirates, and to pass through the airspace of Saudi Arabia. An American source said that the issue of flight permits for Israeli airlines in Saudi Arabia to the UAE and Bahrain had been resolved. This, after talks between Jared Kushner, senior adviser to President Donald Trump, and White House envoy Avi Berkovich, with senior officials in Saudi Arabia. During the conversation between the parties, the Saudis clarified what should be the technical mechanism for approving these flights...

The Employment Service on Monday released data on doubling the number of income support plaintiffs - citizens whose economic situation is particularly difficult - according to which their number has doubled since the outbreak of the corona crisis and the number of claims now stands, towards the end of 2020, at 115,336. The last time the number of income support claimants was so high was in 2013 when 120,000 people received an actual income guarantee. On the eve of the crisis, March 2020, the number of plaintiffs was only 59,000. 18,387 income support claimants and 44,086 unemployment...

The government approved the compromise proposal that the obligation to prioritize Israeli products in public procurement be expanded. Today there is an obligation to prioritize local produce in the procurement of government ministries amounting to up to 15% of the product price. The manufacturers and representatives of the business sector pushed for the expansion of compulsory procurement to other public bodies as well. On the other hand, the Ministries of Finance and the Competition Authority warned that the proposal could harm Israel's competitiveness and productivity. Prime Minister...

The new corona projector, Prof. Nachman Ash, said tonight (Thursday) that one must prepare for at least another year of dealing with the plague. In a first briefing on the plague situation since taking office he added that "a third closure is definitely on the agenda". The briefing takes place against the background of the increase in the number of people diagnosed in recent days, which stood at more than a thousand yesterday. However, the positive rate remained below 2% and stood at 1.8% yesterday. "I and all the leaders of the struggle in Corona, see the heavy prices you pay and the...

The Corona Cabinet approved by telephone the outline formulated by the Ministry of Justice for the pilot for the opening of the malls, which is expected to begin tomorrow, Friday. The layout has created legal difficulties, because it initially includes the opening of only 15 malls, and therefore harms the value of equality. To solve the difficulty, the ministry proposed a combined solution, according to which six large malls across the country would be selected by the Malls Association, and another nine would be selected by lottery. Six malls from the two major groups that will be opened...