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Bezeq reported to the stock exchange tonight (Tuesday) that it intends to deploy fiber optics for 80% of households in Israel - within 6 years. The Ministry of Communications, which formulated the fiber outline, managed to push the most significant player in the market after years in which Bezeq refrained from deploying fiber optics and connecting homes to high-speed Internet infrastructure. The company - which has invested hundreds of millions of shekels in the project to date - has reported that it intends to continue investing another Billions of shekels in it

Nearly 100 fires have been burning for more than a day - and National Fire Commissioner Dedi Simchi said that the fire in the Jerusalem mountains is similar in size to the giant fire in Carmel in 2010. "more than 5,000 acres of woods were burned, and a few isolated houses caught fire without any injuries," Simchi updated tonight (Sunday), saying that the fact that there were no casualties is a great achievement. A cigarette box was found in the scene where the fire started, near Moshav Beit Meir, but it is not certain that its owners caused the fire. "I have been saying this for several years

In an unusual move, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has drawn criticism for his involvement in shaping a key economic report, raising concerns about the independence of professional economic analysis in Israel. The report in question, mandated by a recent amendment to the law, requires the Ministry of Finance to provide a preliminary estimate of economic forecasts in September for years with a two-year budget, such as the current 2023-2024 budget

The net profit of the aerospace industry in the nine months of 2022 jumped by 54% compared to the corresponding period last year and was about 202 million dollars. In this way, this is the most profitable period in the history of the company, which published its financial statements this morning (Thursday). Referring to the third quarter alone, the company's net profit jumped by about 135% compared to the corresponding quarter last year and amounted to about 73 million dollars

El Al's CEO, Gonen Ussishkin, strongly attacked the company's pilots committee in light of the expected decision by the company's board of directors on the outline of the state's request for assistance. Adjust the scope of personnel to the activity. Ussishkin said that as of late June, the company pilots refused to staff the flights, and that all inquiries were not answered for four consecutive days after hundreds of inquiries. "Spins and Pike News can be talked about in the media, but the truth is always within the company and our people know it," the CEO wrote to his employees. It is her...

In a move that has sparked controversy and accusations of curbing the freedom of protest, Chief Avi Biton, the commander of the Central Police District, has imposed restrictions on demonstrations near the homes of ten members of the Knesset and ministers. The restrictions were implemented to address concerns raised during a government meeting about the lack of enforcement during protests near ministerial residences and following requests from members of the Knesset to limit demonstrations outside their homes

A proposal that will go up for a vote on Sunday in front of the ministers effectively eliminates the green label in malls, street stores and shopping centers - and will introduce a strict purple label that includes occupancy restriction depending on the store area (excluding food and pharma stores). According to the proposal, stores with an area larger than 100 square meters will be able to admit customers according to a key of 15 square meters per person, and stores smaller than that - 7 square meters per customer or four customers for the entire store, whichever is higher

Although the "per citizen" grant program has been approved by the government and will be submitted to the Knesset for approval today, it turns out that hundreds of thousands of eligible people will probably have to wait to receive the money for several weeks or even more. The reason: the difficulty of the Social Security which is responsible for distributing the grants in locating their bank accounts. The National Insurance Institute currently has only the bank account data of 5.1 million eligible for the grant, out of the six million eligible. Therefore, it will be possible to transfer...

The number of students in Corona increased by 480% in December. According to the Ministry of Health, 80,000 adults, mostly parents, have been infected with children since March. The concern: Without the tightening of the closure, even the lower classes will be "corona incubators." "Out of 20 interrogations I received today, 12 were children (60%). There were several other adults who were infected from their children, who were infected in schools. This is the case almost every day these days," he wrote this week on Facebook in the Ministry of Health's epidemiological investigations. "The...

16,401 Israelis were diagnosed positive for Corona over the weekend. This is according to data from the Ministry of Health. 9,725 Israelis were confirmed positive yesterday, and 6,676 have been diagnosed since midnight. Today about 118,000 tests were solved and yesterday about 178,000. The rate of positive tests in the last two days is about 6.5%. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 1,092 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 696 of them in critical condition. This is an increase compared to the number of serious patients at the beginning of Shabbat. In...