Popular Articles

The Bank of Israel is on its way to becoming the "big brother" of Israeli citizens: it requires banks and credit card companies to provide it with comprehensive information on the consumer behavior of their customers, which it will centralize in a special database. The database will centralize the expenditure on each citizen's credit cards, the use he made of checks and the amount of cash he withdrew and how he conducted himself with the "grant per citizen" he received. In a letter sent by the Governor's Chief of Staff, Dr. Golan Benita, to the banks and credit card companies, he demanded...

The Israeli high-tech industry is very fond of saying that there is a shortage of workers. Here comes the Central Bureau of Statistics trying to put things in order: 14,000 software developers are missing. However, this number expresses only a small part of the story. To think that only 14,000 workers are missing in high-tech is a form of thinking that is appropriate for a governmental and public body and not for an industry that is moving fast and not waiting for initiatives from the state

The Korean Samsung and Israeli Amdocs announced a number of joint initiatives to accelerate the transition of telecommunications service providers to open cloud networks that provide the freedom and flexibility needed to innovate and improve the provision of G5 services in the market, with greater speed, scope and coverage for both private and business customers . Amdocs and Samsung Networks (Samsung Networks) will collaborate in the integration process (onboarding) and integrate virtual network functions so that telecommunications service providers can take advantage of Samsung's G5...

600,000 Israelis on unpaid leave. This is according to data from the Employment Service published on Monday. Since September 17, the day before New Year's Eve and the entry of restrictions, 213,828 jobseekers have been registered in the employment service - of which 192,223 are due to unpaid leave and 21,605 for other reasons. Of the job seekers enrolled since that date, for 154,680 this is the second or more enrollment since the start of the corona crisis in the bitter month (72% of enrollees in this wave). Currently, 942,678 jobseekers are registered with the employment service, of which...

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved in a telephone poll between the ministers the amendments to the legislation agreed as part of the package deal in the economy. Among other things, under the program, the minimum wage will gradually increase to NIS 6,000 by the end of 2025 in five installments. On April 1 this year, the minimum wage in Israel will rise to NIS 5,400. The increase is less than 2%, while in 2021 inflation was measured at 2.8% in Israel and since the beginning of the year there have been further increases, such as property taxes, fuel and electricity. The next...

Three Israeli universities were ranked among the top 100 universities in the world in 2021, in the Shanghai index, which is considered one of the main indices for university rankings. This is the first time since 2013 that three Israeli universities have managed to make the list. This is despite the government's attempts to harm their public status. The Hebrew University was ranked 90th in the ranking and as the leading university in Israel, after failing to make the list of the top hundred in the previous year. According to the ranking, the Hebrew University is ranked 25th in the world in...

A report released by the Knesset Research and Information Center on Thursday reveals that there are only 1,437 available respirators in Israel. According to data transmitted to the Knesset by the Ministry of Health, at present there are 2,173 respiratory devices in Israel, of which 708 are used and 28 are abnormal. The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Seaman Tov, told the committee this morning that another 70 machines were ordered from the private medical system and 900-800 machines from the IDF. He added that there would eventually be 2,864 available machines, but he...

349 corona patients are hospitalized in serious condition and the number of respirators is 97. Data released by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday morning show that 1,801 new corona patients were diagnosed yesterday and by midnight 270 new infections were diagnosed, including a 22-day-old baby diagnosed at Poria Hospital in Tiberias. Yesterday, results of 22,396 tests were obtained. The death toll from the plague stands at 554 people - a jump of eight from yesterday. From Poria Hospital it was reported that in the morning a 22-day-old baby was hospitalized with a temperature of 38 degrees....

Marking the prices on stickers on products, which the marketing chains were required to do about 25 years ago, is one of their most hated obligations. Again and again, the networks tried to cancel the obligation, which they claim imposes heavy costs on them, and does not exist in any country except Israel. Now, it seems that the pressure of the networks is going to bear fruit. Next week, a memorandum of law (a draft of a government bill) will be published for public comment that will propose to cancel the labeling on the stickers, provided that the price appears on the shelf, next to the...