Popular Articles

The State Attorney's Office filed an indictment against MK Haim Katz as part of a plea agreement signed with him, according to which he will be fined and given a suspended sentence only. As part of the plea bargain, the offense of fraud and breach of trust attributed to Katz was reduced to the offense of conspiracy to achieve a kosher purpose by improper means. This, at the end of negotiations that lasted a year between his defense attorneys and Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and the State Attorney's Office. Katz, who will be represented by attorneys Noyet Negev, Yana Fogel and Tuval...

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,...

The sharp rise in deaths from coronary virus complications and the number of patients in serious condition: According to data from the West Bank Health Ministry on Sunday 362, the corona virus died from the outbreak of the epidemic. That's eight dead in less than 24 hours. The number of severely ill patients rose to 151, an increase of 10 patients as of Sunday morning, and nearly 4 times over three weeks ago. 47 corona patients are resuscitated. This is the highest figure of patients in serious condition since April 19 - so there were 156 seriously ill patients, 109 of whom are...

No less than 52% of the companies in the high-tech service industries reported in the first half of 2023 a reduction in personnel compared to the first half of 2022. This is according to the data of the Central Bureau of Statistics published on Monday. The company managers were also asked about the main cause of the economic damage to their company in the last six months. According to the CBS, the most significant cause of the damage was a decrease in demand for their company's product (about 36% of the companies defined it as such), followed by difficulties in raising venture capital...

The murder on Friday morning of businessman Eldad Perry, 44, caught the residents of Rehovot by surprise. Some residents were in the middle of a morning run, and others were praying in the synagogue when they suddenly heard the sounds of gunfire. Police are continuing efforts to clarify the circumstances of the murder, with all directions of the investigation still open. 06:10 - Businessman Eldad Perry leaves his house for the neighborhood synagogue located in the Faculty of Agriculture, where he used to pray every morning. 06:17 - Perry stops in the parking lot and gets out of the car. A...

The Knesset's Finance Committee approved the law to reduce gender gaps in the labor market and raise the retirement age for women. Under the bill, the retirement age for women from age 62 to age 65 will be raised, over 11 years. The committee has approved a number of tools to make it easier for women to integrate into the labor market or reduce harm. The total cost will amount to about NIS 1 billion. The following are the various measures set forth in the law that will enter into force in January 2022 and were approved by the committee and the Knesset members who dealt with the issue, in...

The Hazilo is a revolutionary interface based on face recognition technology, and was set up to minimize the number of missing persons and to assist their families in locating them, through the public and his cell phones. Families of missing persons, or those at high risk of disappearance such as at-risk youth, Alzheimer's who find it difficult to get around, small children lost in homeless places, etc., can log on to www.Hazilu.com, open a free account and incorporate a family photo including contact information Of his relatives, just as M. did with her son, which helped the reindeer...

The National Labor Court rejected Friday's state demand to issue restraining orders - announcing that the 10th grade school year is over. Meaning: Upon accepting the Teachers Organization position, the middle school year is over, and kindergarten and elementary students left for the Great Holidays on July 1st. "We do not express any position on the implications of this decision on the obligation of the Teachers' Union to act in accordance with its agreements with the state," the judges wrote. "In the absence of a normative source to require the extension of the school year to the 10th...

The Israeli Space Agency and Space Florida signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday. The signing ceremony was attended by the Minister of Science and Technology, MK Ofir Akunis, Governor of the State of Florida, Mr. Ron de Santis, CEO of Spice Florida, Frank DeLo, Director General of the Ministry of Science and Technology Ran Bar, Yitzhak Ben-Israel, Chairman of the Israeli Space Agency and Avi Blassberger, Director of the Israeli Space Agency. As part of the agreement, the institutions will work together to launch educational programs to promote science and technology in Israel...