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The Ministry of Education will abolish the matriculation exams in history, literature, citizenship and the Bible, and they will be replaced by internal assignments and multidisciplinary work. Under the new program, schools will be allowed to choose the teaching method of the four subjects '. "We decided on the change to give students a chance to stop memorizing, and really get interested," Education Minister Shasha-Bitton said at a news conference. Regarding the teachers 'union's opposition to the new program, the Minister of Education replied that the teachers' terms of employment would...

The Israeli astronaut and businessman Eitan Steva, along with members of the AX-1 mission team Dragon, landed on Earth off the coast of Florida. The exciting moment of landing was preceded by a number of stages, when the process of disconnection from the International Space Station began at 03:55 (Israel time). Steva has been in space since April 8, completing a total of 17 days in space, 16 of them at the International Space Station. Just before entering the atmosphere, the spacecraft's crew compartment separated from the service cell (which includes the solar panels) and activated its...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced today (Wednesday) that the obligation to wear masks indoors will be abolished on Saturday evening, April 23, starting at 8 p.m. However, it will still be mandatory to wear masks in places with a high potential for infection such as hospitals, nursing homes, and flights. Even a person who is on the road to isolation will need to wear a mask. According to Bennett and Horowitz, the abolition of the obligation to wear masks will be possible due to the reduction in morbidity in Corona. In recent days, an average of...

The Lod District Court sentenced former Kfar Saba mayor Yehuda Ben-Hamo to 24 months in prison, who was convicted last October of theft by a public official, receiving anything fraudulently under aggravated circumstances, and fraud and breach of trust. The days of his son-in-law's detention will be deducted from the prison sentence, which he will begin serving on June 19. He was also fined NIS 200,000. The court emphasized in its decision that "this is not a one-time stumble - the goal was to make money. Ben Hamo's part in a major case is the perpetrator of the offenses." The sentence was...

The Israeli company Orca Security will fly to Jamaica all 355 company employees from all over the world, for a three-day vacation at the end of May in a luxury beach resort, which in practice will be populated only by Orca employees. The company will lease an aircraft for the purpose of flying the 145 employees employed in Israel. This will be the first time all employees have met together since the company was founded in 2019 and all of its growth was done during the Corona period. The site is made up of luxurious luxury suites in a classic British colonial design, located on the...

The Israeli company Demostack - which was the first to develop a platform for creating demos for sales teams of SaaS companies, has completed a $ 34 million B round of funding. Tiger Global Management led the round of funding, with the participation of Bessemer Venture Partners, Amiti Ventures and Operator Collective. A year ago, Demostack completed the $ 13.5 million A round of funding, and at the end of 2020, the company raised $ 4 million. In total, the company raised $ 51.5 million over the course of a year and a half

The defense establishment has announced that it has successfully completed a series of experiments in a target interception system using a powerful laser. The experiments have taken place in recent weeks in an experimental field in the south of the country, in which the ground laser system intercepted unmanned aerial vehicles, shrapnel, rockets and anti-tank missiles in various scenarios. Israel is the first country in the world to present experimental results demonstrating operational capabilities for laser interception. During the experiment, the developers imagined the launches over...

The chief economist at the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg, undermines the Ministry of Housing's hopes that the prices of apartments in the free market will be curbed following the renewal of subsidized housing tenders.The increase in apartment seekers in the free market has led to an increase in general demand and an increase in apartment prices. This claim was also influenced by contractors and apartment marketers and was quoted extensively in the media. Accordingly, the Ministry of Housing argued that the resumption of lottery operations would return those eligible to the waiting...

The average credit to a household in Israel in 2020, the first corona year, amounted to NIS 246.6 thousand, most of which was bank credit. This is an increase of only 2.3% compared to 2019, when the average credit amounted to NIS 240.7 thousand. At the same time, this is a much sharper increase of about 17% compared to 2016, when the average household credit amounted to NIS 219.1 thousand.

The record for taking out mortgages by the public of apartment and house buyers in Israel was broken, just before the interest rate was raised: The volume of new mortgages taken by the public in March amounted to NIS 13.42 billion, about NIS 1 billion more than the previous record in December last year. This was reported by the Bank of Israel. This is an increase of 19.7% compared to the previous month and an increase of 55.7% compared to the corresponding period last year. In total, housing loans totaling 34.6 billion were taken out in the first quarter of the year, and 137 billion in the...