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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...

118 new corona patients have been diagnosed in Israel in the last 24 hours, 93 of them since midnight. This is according to the Ministry of Health data released this evening (Thursday). According to city data, the new patients were found in dozens of localities and not in a small number of localities, as they were in recent weeks. The number of infections in Israel stands at 17,495, of which 15,013 have recovered and 291 have died - so the number of active patients is 2,191

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 shortening of the shifts of interns in hospitals is underway: On Tuesday evening, the Minister of Finance, Avgidor Lieberman, the Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, and the Minister of the Economy, Orna Barbibai, agreed on an initial outline for shortening the shifts from 26 hours to 18 hours (16 plus 2). At this stage only for hospitals in the periphery (10 total) - and excluding professions of surgery. The interns - who do not accept the outline - plan to intensify the struggle and carry out a mass resignation from the hospitals today. "We are continuing our struggle. We will...

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...

A double stabbing attack in Jerusalem: A man about 50 years old was seriously wounded from stabbing on Friday morning near the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem. He goes to Shaare Zedek Medical Center. The medical unit said: "The trauma unit faces a man in the 1950s with stabbings in the neck and head area. A short time later another wounded man was reported to be stabbed, an 18-year-old boy, near the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City. His condition is easy. The police said that the two stabbings were carried out by a terrorist. He was shot by policemen and died.

On Wednesday afternoon, the US Department of Commerce dropped a bombshell: it announced that two Israeli companies, NSO and Kandiro, were blacklisted as entities acting against the national interest of the United States, in light of repression aided by the company in authoritarian countries and against democracies. "Foreign governments have served as a means of repression and silence in authoritarian regimes and as a tool against regime opponents, journalists and exiled activists." The decision means that companies will have to issue a special license to trade in the US, but it will also...

The Investment Authority of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, will implement a program to integrate interns from the Arab population in the industrial and high-tech sectors. The program is designed to help employers from the high-tech industry integrate students and graduates of higher education institutions in Israel from the Arab population, including Druze, Bedouin and Circassians studying technological subjects. The course is intended for corporations from all over the country dealing with elite technologies, companies in the pharmaceutical industry, electronic components,...

The government is examining the possibility of imposing a closure on weekends only, in order to reduce the contagion in Corona at parties and social events and to eliminate the need for a full closure Science Minister Yizhar Shai raised the proposal in a consultation convened yesterday afternoon by Prime Minister Netanyahu in his office in the shadow of the spread of the disease. In response, Netanyahu said that closing on weekends only is an interesting idea and should be examined Netanyahu has already pushed for tougher restrictions, including closing camps, reducing crowds and shutting...