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The Israeli payment company Pioneer (Payoneer) was fined $ 1.4 million by the US Treasury Department for violating 2,260 different sanctions in a large number of countries, including Iran and Syria. Other countries include Ukraine, Sudan and violations of sanctions against individuals who are defined as barriers to money transfers by US authorities. According to the Ministry of Finance report between 2018-2013, Pioneer processed 2,241 payments to entities located in the Crimea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as 19 violations of sanctions by individuals who are blocked by the US...

Hours after the cancellation of the probable cause was approved in the first reading, demonstrations and blockades began throughout the country, among other things at all entrances to Jerusalem, the coastal road, road 4, and the Ayalon routes: "This is just the promo." A vehicle was recorded speeding toward protesters on Route 531 - and running away from the policeman who tried to stop it. MDA: "Significant delays in the movement of the ambulances, they want to allow them to move freely

WeSure GlobalTech reported the signing of an agreement to acquire control (approximately 50.44%) in the Ayalon Holdings Group from Adv. Moran Meiri, the estate manager of the late Levi Yitzhak Rahmani, the former controlling shareholder in the company. WeSure, which signed the deal with Ayalon on Friday, will pay NIS 354.5 million for the shares - that is, the deal was made at a value of NIS 700 million, while on the stock exchange Ayalon is traded at a value of NIS 500 million. WeSure indicates that they have several options for financing the transaction, and that they are currently...

About 200,000 students did not start the school year in schools and kindergartens today (Wednesday), according to data from the Ministry of Education. The reasons for this are varied: either they are isolated, or infected in Corona, or they are in grades 8-12 in red localities with a vaccination rate of less than 70% in the first dose. Of the students in the education system, 38.2 thousand are defined as active blue and 56 thousand are in isolation. In addition, 4,140 teachers and staff are sick or isolated. At this point it is still unknown what the results of the rapid tests the parents...

"Omicron" - This is the name of the new African strain of corona that threatens the world, according to the World Health Organization. Omicron is the 15th letter in the Greek alphabet. According to the organization in its announcement today (Friday), there is evidence that this strain causes increased infection and is considered a "cause for concern". This is the fifth variant of the virus that has been defined as such since the outbreak of the plague

The Yom Kippur fast will be marked tonight (Sunday) in the shadow of the general closure imposed by the government in favor of preventing the spread of the corona virus. About 7,000 police officers will take part in the closure enforcement operation during Yom Kippur. Most enforcement in localities where a Jewish majority is expected to focus on city centers and local gatherings on intercity roads. At the same time, the police are expected to deploy roadblocks at entrances and exits from cities and towns. Apart from that, the essential services will be provided only in the cities of...

Alarms sounded in the Haifa and Kiryat areas on Monday afternoon following an intense barrage of rockets fired from Lebanon, marking one of the heaviest attacks on northern Israel since the onset of the war. The IDF confirmed the detection of 90 rocket launches, with the majority intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Despite the interceptions, several rockets fell in populated areas, causing damage to property and resulting in casualties

Israel, whose response to the corona virus epidemic was initially considered a success story, especially compared to the way the epidemic was dealt with by countries like the United States, has lost its initial advantage and even worse. On Tuesday, Israel "surpassed" the United States in terms of the number of people infected with the corona virus per million people, for the first time since the end of March. At the end of May, the average weekly number of infected people in Israel was close to zero, while in the United States at that time it was about 80. Since then, the average number...

The Knesset's Constitution Committee, chaired by MK Yaakov Asher, convened on Monday to discuss the "Green Passport" initiative for recovering people from Corona and those vaccinated against it, which could allow citizens holding it free access to sites now closed to all due to the spread of the epidemic. The presentation of the Ministry of Health presented to the Knesset members suggests the areas for which the "green passport" will be valid. According to the plan, the passport may allow entry to cultural events, sporting events, conferences, events and museums, and possibly also to...

The slowdown in the economy has also reached the number of vacancies which continues to decrease and with it, the demand for high-tech people also drops. The number of vacancies decreased from 144,700 in October to 141,200 in November (seasonally adjusted data). This is a decrease of nearly 10,000 jobs from the record of 151,400 last April. Particularly affected was the demand for software engineers (programmers), which fell by 45% from last March