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The Ministerial Committee for the Declaration of a Restricted Area expanded at noon (Friday) the list of localities in the northern region that are closed due to an increase in the morbidity data in Corona. After yesterday it was decided to extend the closure on Majdal Shams until November 10 and to announce restrictions on the locality of Restaurant until November 11, restrictions were also announced on the localities of Buqata and Hatzor HaGlilit. According to the decision, the restrictions in Buqata will begin tomorrow at 08:00 in the morning and will last until next Thursday at 08:00...

Within a few days, the entire public in Israel will be able to undergo corona tests without the need for a referral. In addition, each isolator will be able to perform two corona tests - one on the third day and the other on the tenth - and exit isolation after 12 days if they are negative. This was announced today (Tuesday) by the corona projector, Prof. Roni Gamzo, in a media briefing. Gamzo said that the actual tests are tens of thousands lower than the test capacity, which is 70,000 a day, and any test that is not performed is a miss, he said. In addition, he announced that Bnei Brak,...

Bank Leumi reported that it has signed a deal with the American Valley National Bank under which Leumi USA and the American bank will merge at a value of $ 1.2 billion. Thus, after the merger, Leumi USA will hold 14.2% of the merged bank and will be the largest shareholder in the bank - but not a controlling shareholder. Bank Leumi is expected to post a profit of up to NIS 750 million from the transaction. The merger The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and the approval of the General Meeting of Bank Valley. The merged bank will be the 29th largest bank among the banks traded...

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...

In the coming days, the Risk Loan Fund is expected to start operating, where a state guarantee of 60% will be given instead of 15% on the total loan portfolio. These are loans to businesses that have so far failed to earn the credit they need to deal with the Corona crisis. The prevailing claim is that the current loan fund - of which NIS 13 billion in loans has already been distributed to small and medium businesses - does not meet the needs of several industries, especially restaurants, cafes and hotels. According to this claim, a 15% state guarantee is not enough to address the banks'...

In the past week, there has been an increase in the number of new patients and seriously ill patients, for the first time since the closure began a month and a half ago, according to a report published today (Sunday) by the National Information and Knowledge Campaign in Corona. Masks, social alienation and enforcement may increase morbidity, which has been on the rise in the past month and includes hundreds of infections daily. The report also shows that the Central Bureau of Statistics' data for October indicate a high correlation between the excess mortality in recent months, compared...

The tightened closure will last longer than planned: On Tuesday evening, the government approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to extend the tightened closure by 10 days. Thus, the severe restrictions that were supposed to expire after two weeks this coming Thursday - will last until Sunday 31 January at midnight. At the same time, it was decided that a negative corona test would apply 72 hours before departure from abroad to Israel. The tight closure was supposed to end on Thursday this week, but the morbidity data led to its extension. , Yesterday a record of more than...

The unpaid vacation law was approved in the Knesset on second and third reading at the end of an exhausting night of debates and about 75 votes in the plenum. The law stops extending unemployment benefits to over 200,000 Corona unemployed by the age of 45. This means they will still receive payment for the month of June but will not receive any payment for July. The Minister of Finance passed in the Knesset his decision to take a stricter line on the issue of extending unemployment benefits with almost no changes, with the help of the chairman of the finance committee from his party, MK...

An additional 9,891 people have been diagnosed with Corona in the past day, the Ministry of Health said this morning (Wednesday). This is a 6.69% positive out of a total of 150,657 tests. Also, the number of critically ill patients rose to 692, including 129 respirators. Yesterday, 16 patients died of the virus, so the death toll from the outbreak rose to 6,880. To date, we have vaccinated 5,923,082 people in the first vaccine dose in the country, and 1,673,1565 in the third dose. This, after the Ministry of Health announced yesterday the expansion of the third vaccination campaign, so...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is consulting with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and senior officials of his ministry following the increase in infection rates. The discussion presented the morbidity data in Israel as well as the morbidity situation in the world, with an emphasis on the focal points of the outbreak in China and Hong Kong. The discussion presented the information currently available on the BA2 strain and the combined strain of the Omicron. At the end of the discussion, it was decided that the obligation to wear masks in closed spaces would continue at this stage and be...