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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein arrived at the Clalit Health Fund's vaccination complex in the city of Umm al - Fahm on Friday, where the millionth vaccine against the corona virus was carried out. "This is great excitement," Netanyahu said after city resident Muhammad Jabarin received the vaccine. "We are breaking all records, we have brought millions of vaccines to Israel." Netanyahu added: "We have preceded the whole world and now we are ahead of them with our excellent health funds. We are moving forward with tremendous speed to vaccinate the entire...

Five election campaigns in less than four years cost us a lot of money, when all the expenses and damages to the economy in one election campaign are estimated at three billion shekels, including the cost of the Sabbath day and the damage to economic growth. Today (Sunday) the Finance Committee approved the budget proposal of the Central Election Committee for the elections to the 25th Knesset, which this time will amount to approximately NIS 538 million

The Ministry of Economy and Industry, in collaboration with the Ministry of Energy and the Innovation Authority, launched the Energy Innovation Community in Israel. The innovation community is expected to build an engine of economic growth in a market valued at $ 1 trillion a year David Lefler, Director General of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, in front of hundreds at the conference: "The technologies in Israel exist and are excellent. The problem is in the application and assimilation of the technologies in the Israeli market and in the Israeli reality. Only cooperation between the...

Daylight saving time will end on Sunday morning. Tomorrow Saturday night we will be enjoying for the last time daylight saving time until March next year. The savings for the Israeli economy from operating daylight saving time, which ends tomorrow night, between Saturday and Sunday at two in the morning, are estimated at more than NIS 400 million. If these figures are correct it would be possible to enjoy them all year round. There is room for daylight saving time all year round even in winter. In the summer days from the end of May to the end of October it was possible to move the hands...

Big Group announced that it will not force the tenants to close their businesses. After the new announcement, the company's share rose by about a percent after yesterday falling by 2.7%. Contrary to rumors, Big stands behind her decision," the company claimed and added: "When preserving democracy is the basis of her decision, Big stands behind her announcement. At the same time, as many as there are tenants in the centers who ask to open, she will respect their wishes and will not prevent them from doing so. In order to encourage tenants to participate in the strike, stores that will join...

The government ministers (Sunday) approved the opening of public gardens throughout the country, as well a availables the use of the amusement and fitness facilities there, but without amusement facilities. The gaming facilities will not open for use. The decision was made by telephone meeting of the ministers. This is a continuation of the exit strategy from the Corona crisis. At the meeting, which was chaired by Foreign Minister Israel Katz, the ministers also confirmed that the isolation obligation in the hotel would be revoked from abroad, and they could now stay in domestic isolation....

The aerospace industry launches the Scorpius family, the first electronic warfare system (LA) of its kind in the world with reception capabilities, blocking and disrupting several threats at different frequencies and in different directions at the same time. And disrupt the activity of enemy systems in a targeted manner, using multiple transmission beams at the same time. The threats handled by the system are from a wide range and include aircraft, drones, ships, missiles, means of communication and more. Unprecedented that it is possible to detect a large number of threats with different...

The Innovation Authority's Human Capital Report and Start-Up Nation Central show an alarming picture of the state of employment. The number of high-tech industry employees rose significantly in 2019 to 321,000 employees, accounting for 9.2% of all employees in the economy - up 8% from 2018. On the other hand, besides the large increase in the number of employees, the demand for workers is only rising, and as of July 2019, approximately 18,500 open technology jobs have been registered in the non-staffed industry and were not filled. Aharon Aharon, CEO of the Innovation Authority, said, "We...

The Ministry of Health has been discussing in recent days the possibility of imposing severe restrictions on the coming Purim, in order to prevent a renewed increase in morbidity, which has been declining significantly in recent days. Meanwhile, many people took advantage of the trade opening yesterday to buy costumes for Purim - and toy stores have long queues ahead of the holiday, which will begin on Thursday evening. At this stage, the Ministry of Health has not yet formulated a decision regarding restrictions on Purim, with one option being to impose a night curfew to prevent...

The tax authority transfers hundreds of millions of shekels in tax refunds to businesses in a concentrated manner. The Authority announced today (Thursday) that out of a desire to help businesses in Israel, in light of the cash flow difficulties they encountered as a result of the economic consequences of the Corona virus and the tightening of restrictions, tax refunds amounting to hundreds of millions of shekels were released this week. Those eligible will be able to see the money in their bank accounts in the coming days. In this context, income balances in the total amount of NIS 153...