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South Korea rose to first place in the Bloomberg Innovation Index, after Germany, which was in first place last year, dropped to fourth place. The United States, on the other hand, dropped out of the top 10 after being in ninth place in 2020, while Israel was ranked seventh, down one step from last year. The Asian nation is now in first place in seven of the nine years the index is published. One and ranked second and third respectively. The Bloomberg Index analyzes dozens of criteria using seven equivalent metrics, including research and development spending, manufacturing capacity, and...

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...

After quite a few delays, the "Shark" rig arrived in Israel and infuriated the Lebanese. The reason for this lies in the conflict over the economic maritime border between Israel and Lebanon, an area with the potential to find gas reserves that could dramatically improve the precarious economic situation of the land of cedars. In order to protect the rig, last week the Economics Committee approved a no-go zone at a distance of about 500 meters from the outer edge of the rig, and within a radius of 1,500 meters around the location of the rig. In Israel, they intend to produce gas from a...

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 emergency discussion on the issue of raising the price of bread ended without decisions. At the beginning of the debate, which took place on Sunday at the initiative of Prime Minister Yair Lapid, he announced that the purpose of the debate is "a complete halt to the rise in the price of uniform bread." During the discussion, a number of economic and legislative proposals were raised on how to reach agreements. Prime Minister Lapid ordered the head of the budget department in the Ministry of Finance to return within three days for another discussion, with the formulation of the best way...

The largest mass event since the beginning of the Corona period has become one of the greatest disasters in the country's history: 44 people were killed and more than 100 were injured last night (Thursday to Friday), including 23 in critical condition, at the Toldot Aharon storks' lighting compound on Mount Meron. Around 3:00 a.m., ambulances finished evacuating all the wounded to hospitals in the northern region, and police subsequently continued their efforts to evacuate all participants from the mountain. Dozens of buses on their way to the scene were turned around, and encountered...

About a month after Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David called for a consumer boycott due to the rising prices for Diplomat, Shastovitz, and Kimberly Clark, the response arrived: the employees of Kimberly Clark Israel decided to take revenge: to leave the Histadrut and move to the National Histadrut. There are about 1,000 employees

The government approved the expansion of the aid plan budget by NIS 14 billion on Sunday. According to the Treasury's calculations, together with the aid provided by leveraging those budgets, the total aid package is NIS 100 billion, but the actual implementation is much lower, of course. The expansion approved by the government today will allow the NIS 8 billion loan to NIS 14 billion to expand to NIS 8 billion, financing tools for high-tech companies of NIS 2 billion, providing state guarantees for vendor credit worth $ 750 million and more

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...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett gave the green light for the establishment of the State Commission of Inquiry into the Submarine Affair, and the vote on this will be submitted to the government for approval at its next meeting on Sunday. The decision was made after discussions between Prime Minister and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz, Justice Minister Gideon Saar and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid. Gantz, who more than any other government minister promoted the establishment of the committee, welcomed the agreements: "This is a national need, and I thank the prime minister, the foreign minister,...