The National Insurance Institute has paid for 101,000 workers who were forced to be absent from work due to isolation

The National Insurance Institute has so far already paid for 101,000 workers who were forced to be absent from work due to isolation, a total of NIS 157 million.
The current isolation law will only be in effect until December 31, that is, about three more weeks, and the government will have to decide whether to extend it. Today (Thursday) the National Insurance Institute announced an extension of the period during which employers can apply for retroactive payment for the days parents were absent due to the isolation of their children, so that the application can be submitted until January 20. This is on the condition that the employees report in real time the child's entry into isolation between the dates of April 21 this year and December 31.
The Economic Assistance Program Law (New Corona Virus) sets out the rules for employees' entitlement to the payment of isolation benefits from the employer, and sets the division of the burden of payment between the state, employers and employees. Now, the cost of financing most of the days of isolation is shared between the government and employers (half-and-half), after the High Court banned the declaration of days of chemical isolation of illness, so that the employee himself bears only the cost of the first day of isolation.
In December 2020, an operation to vaccinate the population began in Israel, and at the same time it was determined that those who were vaccinated or recovered from the disease would be exempt from the obligation to isolate. On the other hand, due to the spread of the Delta variant of the new corona virus, either vaccinated or recovering is required in specific circumstances to stay in isolation, and therefore he too will be entitled to the full isolation fee, in addition to parents of children required to be isolated. In light of these, the law was amended and adapted to the new situation created.
An employee who stays in solitary confinement due to his child (a child under the age of 16) will be entitled to solitary confinement, even though being vaccinated does not require isolation himself. This provision will apply retroactively from 1.1.2020. Meanwhile, even parents who have not been vaccinated and who are not vaccinated will be entitled to full payment of the isolation fee if they were required to stay in isolation with their children. It should be noted that parents may be absent intermittently during their child's isolation period.
An employee who has not been vaccinated and who is not vaccinated will be entitled to a payment of 75% of the isolation fee subject to compliance with the conditions of the law. The Ministry of Finance will reimburse the National Insurance Institute for all its expenses incurred for the implementation of the Isolation Law.