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The Ministry of Finance published a memorandum to increase the retirement age for women, now 62 years. According to the proposal, this is a gradual move that will take place over a period of 11 years, starting next April. In the first three years, the retirement age will be raised at a rate of 4 months per year, and for the rest of the years - 3 months per year. Then the retirement age will be linked to life expectancy when the retirement age for women can not exceed that of men. The first stage in which the retirement age will be raised in 4 months per year will apply to the children born...

Shikun VeBinui is the winner of the tender for the construction of the intelligence complex in Likit, whose construction cost is estimated at NIS 3-2.5 billion. This was announced by the director of the move south to the Ministry of Defense. This is a PFI tender in which the winning company will finance, plan, build, operate and maintain the complex - which is expected to contain 350,000 square meters that will be built on an area of ​​2,500 dunams - for 26 years. The Blikit Intelligence Campus is the latest and most complex tender issued by the defense establishment as part of the IDF's...

Israel, long recognized for its prowess in innovation and academia, now faces a troubling descent in the OECD's education yearbook "Education View." This internationally renowned statistical publication is an important benchmark in the field of education, and Israel's recent rankings are raising concerns

A complete collapse in the achievements of Arab education in Israel. This is the picture that emerges from the PISA 2018 exam grades for 9th graders. In the three areas of the test, Arab students achieved a decline, as well as peak gaps between Hebrew and Arabic students, with the average gap being 124 points. 54% of Arab students were classified as having difficulty in all three areas together, compared to only 12% among Jews. The gaps between strong and weak students in Israel are also highest in all the countries examined in all three subjects. The findings are particularly difficult in...

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.

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...

A ranking published in the New York Times shows that Israel is in sixth place in the world in terms of the number of new infections per day per million inhabitants. In the first places in the ranking are the Gulf states of Oman and Bahrain, where the virus is spreading rapidly, especially among foreign workers. Before Israel, which affects about 200 people per million inhabitants a day, are Oman, Bahrain, Panama, South Africa and the United States. In Oman, which leads the ranking, more than 300 people per million inhabitants are infected per day, as of the end of July. After Israel in the...

At Mount Herzl in Jerusalem opens tonight (Wednesday) the celebrations of the 74th Independence Day of the State of Israel with the traditional beacon lighting ceremony - which for the first time in two years was held without any corona restrictions, and thousands came to the audience. This year, the ceremony was held under the banner "A hand meets a sister's hand," and 13 Israelis were chosen to light the 12 beacons symbolizing the 12 tribes of Israel. As a sign of consideration with the battle shocks, and as municipalities across the country have done, there will be no fireworks at the...

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 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,...