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Significant increase in the number of respirators: According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of corona patients in hospitals increased by 12 in half a day and reached 118, the most since the end of April, at the height of the first wave. The peak number of respirators was on April 13, when 137 corona patients who were connected to respirators were hospitalized in hospitals across the country. This is a sharp jump in the number of respirators in recent weeks. According to the data on July 1 there were 24 respirators, on August 1 the number jumped to 94 and this morning it...

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

.148 people were diagnosed with Corona patients in the past day, according to (Tuesday) Health Ministry data released (Tuesday). The data also shows that 32 have recovered in the last day, and the number of active patients is currently 2,722. According to data and a report from the Corona National Information and Knowledge Center, affiliated with the IDF Intelligence Division, 166 patients were added in Tel Aviv as of June 1. According to the Ministry of Health, 18,180 people have contracted corona in Israel, of which 15,159 have recovered. 31 of the active patients are defined as in...

Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky recently completed a huge $ 208 million fundraiser for their startup, Drivenets, which has developed a solution that helps media companies increase surfing volume and maintain profitability. The start-up has benefited in the past year from the move to work from home, which has forced communications companies to deal with a huge volume of traffic, and invested in expanding their infrastructure. Drivents was established in December 2015, and this is its second round of capital raising since its inception. The round was led by the D1 Capital Partners fund, which...

A recovery arrangement was signed between the Accountant General and the Israel Post in the amount of NIS 1.7 billion, along with a new collective agreement with the Post's workers' council. As part of it, out of the company's 5,000 employees, approximately 1,050 employees will be laid off in two phases - the first of which will be in December. The financing agreement consists of the sale of real estate of the post office - which has 700 branches throughout the country - to the state. The value of the assets to be sold is estimated at NIS 800 million. The state will also finance the...

5 million people have died so far from corona and virus-related complications worldwide. This was reported on Saturday by the Reuters news agency, which noted that with the spread of the delta strain, most of the victims are not vaccinated. According to the news agency, the number of victims worldwide stood at 2.5 million after almost a year after the epidemic broke out, and another 2.5 million died within 236 days. According to Reuters, more than half of the deaths are from the US, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and India. Last week, Reuters noted that an average of 8,000 deaths were reported per...

South Korea's parliament approved a trade agreement with Israel and it is expected to enter into force in December. This is Israel's first free trade area agreement with an Asian country. With the entry into force of the agreement, mutual tariff reductions will apply to imported and exported products, alongside the improvement and facilitation of trade in a variety of other areas such as services, investments, and standardization. The agreement will give Israeli companies a competitive advantage in the Korean market and is expected to increase and diversify Israeli exports to Korea, as...

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, the consumer price index (CPI) for October rose by 0.5% compared to the previous month. Still, annual inflation held steady at 3.5%, the same rate as during the corresponding period last year. Despite the monthly increase, the overall inflation rate remains within the government’s target range, though it continues to challenge economic policymakers

The Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Innovation agreed on a basket of benefits for the advancement of the Israeli high-tech industry. The government will promote three legislative amendments designed to strengthen and promote Israeli high-tech as a key engine of growth in the economy. The Ministry of Finance has issued a memorandum of law for public comments that includes three legislative amendments: 1. "Angel Law": granting a tax credit to an investor in a start-up company. This is first and foremost in order to encourage first-round investments ("pre seed"...

Only 8,000 students (about half a percent of students in Israel) are studying financial education this year, according to a report by the Knesset's Research and Information Center (KRIC) ahead of a discussion on the subject to be held on Monday in the Knesset's Education Committee. The report, prepared by Dr. Eliran Zard for the committee's chairman, MK Sharan Hashakel, also shows a new hope, that in the 2009-2010 school year, before the Corona crisis, only 24,000 students studied the profession. These numbers are very low, despite That it is a profession that is considered by many to be...