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After a postponement of about a week, Nir Hefetz, who was the spokesman and communications adviser to opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and his family, appeared for the first time in the Netanyahu trial on Monday morning. Hefetz's testimony in the Jerusalem District Court is considered key testimony - Regarding the 4000 case, in which Netanyahu is accused of bribery of fraud and breach of trust, however, parts of his testimony are also expected to touch on cases 1000 and 2000. Hefetz is expected to testify at trial for many weeks. Nir Hefetz is a key state witness. The chairman of the...

The Ministry of Finance and Health has concluded that the drug basket budget for 2020 will be NIS 500 million. Same amount as budget for 2019-2017. Deputy Minister of Health Jacob Litzman pledged to increase the budget to NIS 700 and even NIS 750 million, but due to the fact that a transitional government has not allowed him to fulfill his promise. About 900 drugs and technologies with a total cost of over NIS 3 billion have been submitted to the Therapy Basket Committee, headed by Prof. Zeev Rothstein. Since the budget is only half a billion shekels, it covers only one-sixth of the needs

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...

The cuts in the high-tech industry continue: The Israeli cyber company Cybereason has laid off about 100 employees out of about 1,500 employees, about 6% of the company's workforce. The layoffs are global and several dozen of those laid off are Israelis. The company has not yet explained the reason for the decision, but it comes against the background of horizontal layoffs that have occurred in recent weeks in many companies abroad and in Israel, including in the cyber industry - and including well-funded companies. Adam, after a period of rapid growth in the number of employees, indeed,...

AWS (Amazon Web Services) will set up local server farms in Israel in 2023, the company announced, which recently won the cloud tender (Nimbus project) of the State of Israel. It will probably be the last supplier to silence local infrastructure in Israel. This is after Microsoft, Oracle and Google, which also won the tender, will also have local infrastructure. According to the announcement by AWS, which is the arm of Amazon that deals with cloud services, the computing infrastructure it will establish will allow the government, educational institutions and nonprofits to run and run their...

Rav Bariach, controlled by Shmuel Donnerstein (60%), announced today (Wednesday) that it is joining the solar trend. Rav Briach Energy, a subsidiary of Rav Briach, will, together with Golan Solar, establish a company for the marketing and sale of components of solar systems - which will probably be called "Golan Latch". The initial investment is about NIS 15 million. Golan Solar is a consulting company in the solar field, which is owned by the entrepreneurs Boaz Presler, Eyal Bahrav and Uri Lieberman, and is involved in solar projects worth NIS 300 million. Rav Barih will hold about 66% of...

The European low-cost company Wizz Air is coming to Ramon Airport and will offer Israelis direct flights from Ramon to destinations in Europe. The company will start operating two weekly flights to Vienna in Austria and Rome in Italy starting this December. The first flights are scheduled to take off on December 17

A perishable personal device for identifying the corona of an Israeli entrepreneur last night received an emergency permit from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Visby Medical has announced that it has received approval for the company's personal and disposable PCR device, which is used for rapid detection of COVID-19 disease; The hand-sized device is capable of delivering extremely reliable results in less than 30 minutes. Visby was founded by Adam de la Zerda, who also serves as the company's CEO, a graduate of the Technion in Computer Engineering. It is reported that the first...

Doral shares rose 9.75% at the start of trading, after the company signed a huge deal to partner with the insurance company Migdal in renewable energy investments in the US. Migdal will invest $ 110 million in the purchase and allotment of 20% of the shares of Doral's American subsidiary Doral. Energy Generation (Doral Energy Generation) With the completion of the transaction, Doral's holding in the subsidiary will decrease from 50.1% to 41%, and the American partner Nicholas Cohen, who will sell shares in Migdal for $ 20 million, will hold 39% of the shares of The subsidiary. Migdal will...

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...