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Bezeq has released its sixth report on the state of the Internet in Israel for a summary of 2019. The report, which reviews the Israelis' use and behavior in the digital age, is based on in-depth research conducted by the Company on Internet usage patterns in Israel, its controlling trends and its various uses, as well as data from the Company's activities and systems. The survey included a national sample of 1400 respondents aged 13+ from all sectors, including the first sample of children aged 8 to 12. The survey and infrastructure data collected from Bezeq systems, together with market...

The United States, Israel, and Sudan officially announced Friday the normalization of relations between Khartoum and Jerusalem - a move that ends decades of hostility. According to the announcement, US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Sudanese leaders' Abd al-Fatah al-Burhan and Abdullah Hamduk spoke today and discussed "the historic process that Sudan is undergoing for democracy" and the promotion of peace in the region. A senior source says that within the framework of the agreement, the agreements between Israel and Sudan are also being formed on the return...

At midnight (Tuesday-Wednesday) the new corona restrictions came into effect, with the aim of curbing the rise in morbidity, which includes the expansion of the green label on most sectors of the economy and the activation of the purple label in malls and shopping centers and crowd restrictions. In the late evening, however, pressure was exerted to exclude children from having to present a negative test in order to enter pools or attractions. During the night, a telephone poll was expected in the government with the aim of approving the exclusion of the swimming pools, nature reserves,...

The Knesset plenum opened on Thursday morning and its members will vote in the second and third readings on the Knesset Dissolution Law. The plenum will not advance the Metro Act and the laws necessary to obtain a visa exemption when traveling to the United States. Live broadcast from the Knesset. The vote was supposed to take place last night until midnight, but it was postponed due to the lack of agreements between the opposition and the coalition on laws to be promoted in cooperation despite the dispersal, most notably the Metro Act, laws required to promote U.S. visa exemptions and...

The International Bank concludes 2021 with a profit of NIS 1.4 billion, a jump of almost twice that of the profit in 2020, which amounted to NIS 750 million. The return on capital amounts to 14.7% in 2021 compared to 8.6% in 2020. The Bank's revenues amounted to NIS 3.15 billion in 2021, compared with NIS 2.9 billion in 2020. Net interest income amounted to NIS 2.8 billion, compared with NIS 2.6 billion. International's revenue from interest amounted to NIS 1.44 billion, compared with NIS 1.37 billion in 2020, an increase of 5.3%. The fees charged by the bank last year amounted to NIS...

The number of corona patients hospitalized in critical condition continues to decline and tonight (Saturday) their number stands at 694, compared to 741 on Wednesday. However, there has been an alarming increase in the number of serious patients connected to respirators and their number stands at 221 - a record in the fourth wave. Among the severe patients - 486 are not vaccinated, 134 are vaccinated in two doses and 56 are vaccinated with a booster dose. No data were provided for the other severe patients. The rate of severely unvaccinated patients now stands at 72%. Among severe patients...

The State of Israel, through the State Attorney's Office, filed a NIS 340 million lawsuit against the Teva District Court for violating the state's intellectual property rights due to non-payment of royalties from the sale of Copaxone preparation in its renewed version for multiple sclerosis. The lawsuit was filed as part of the activities of the Civil Enforcement Unit of the State Attorney's Office, the Accountant General's Division of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Health for the protection of state assets and rights, including intellectual property rights through civil law...

An investigation by a global media consortium based on leaked targeting data provides further evidence that military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group, the world’s most infamous hacker-for-hire outfit, is being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents. From a list of more than 50,000 cellphone numbers obtained by the Paris-based journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories and the human rights group Amnesty International and shared with 16 news organizations, journalists were able to identify more than 1,000 individuals in 50 countries who were...

For the second time this week, the number of job seekers is higher than those returning to work. This is evident from the data published by the Employment Service. The data shows that in the last 24 hours, 1,448 reports of return to work were received by the Employment Service. At the same time, 1,592 new job seekers were registered. The last time a higher number of layoffs was reported in relation to people returning to work was on Sunday this week, it was reported that the number of job seekers was double the reported return to work, with 466 reports of returning to work, compared to 850...