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The Corona Commission on Tuesday approved the exclusion of the restaurants from the government order, and their continued activity includes sitting in closed spaces. This is contrary to the decision of the government. Eight members of the committee supported the opening of the restaurants, in front of three opponents. Blue and white were absent from the vote in coordination with the Likud. The restaurants will now be able to open after they closed this morning, following the failure of contacts between Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and committee chairman MK Yifat Shasha Bitton. According...

Thousands of people demonstrated Saturday night against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption, for the 34th week in a row. About a thousand demonstrators in front of the prime minister's residence on Balfour Street in Jerusalem and several hundred demonstrators near the Netanyahu family's home in Caesarea. These demonstrations were preceded by a series of smaller protests at intersections, bridges and interchanges across the country. Some of the protesters reported incidents of violence during the demonstrations at the intersections. A young woman was arrested after...

The deficit in September continued to decline in September and amounted to NIS 6 billion. In the last 12 months, the deficit has fallen to 7.4% of GDP. State revenues since the beginning of the year amounted to NIS 295 billion, while state expenditures amounted to NIS 346.7 billion. The deficit shrank mainly due to the sharp 26% increase in state revenues in the first three quarters of the year. State revenues from the beginning of 2021 on taxes have jumped by 19.7%, with the sharpest increase (26.3%) recorded in direct taxes. At the same time, "other income" was recorded for the state,...

More than five years after suspicions of corruption in the purchase of submarines from Germany were first revealed, the government will approve on Sunday at its weekly meeting the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the affair. The committee, chaired by a judge, will be empowered to investigate the decision-making processes of the political echelon in relation to procurement processes and vessel transactions, as well as the involvement of former security officers and senior officials as intermediaries in large security transactions. The proposal, promoted by Defense...

June 1 is a date that will undoubtedly be remembered in the history of the State of Israel's war on the corona virus: in light of the low and stable morbidity along with a successful vaccination campaign, the need for a green label will be eliminated from today (Tuesday). This means that after a year and three months of restrictions, closures and a variety of areas of life that have entered silence - life as we knew it is back. In enclosed spaces there is still a duty of masks, but most of the economy should today move to normal activity, with no occupancy restrictions, no need to display...

After more than eight hours of a tense cabinet meeting on Sunday, the ministers approved a closure on Fridy, New Year's Eve, at 2 p.m that will last at least three weeks. This is in order to stop the surge in coronary heart disease in Israel. Towards the end of the original closure period, a situation assessment will be conducted in which it will be decided whether to extend the closure. The closure was approved by a majority of votes in the yeshiva, and only Ministers Zeev Elkin and Assaf Zamir voted against. Ministers Itzik Shmuli and Ofir Akunis abstained, the rest supported. Prime...

End to masks in the open space: A year after the directive to wear masks in the public space, on Saturday the director general of the Ministry of Health, Hezi Levy, signed an order that would remove the obligation to wear masks in open spaces from Sunday. ". The Ministry of Health emphasized that in non-open areas a mask should be worn: "We mention that it is important at every exit from the house to be equipped with a mask that will be required in enclosed spaces and to maintain guidelines - mask, social distance and hygiene, for the health of us all." Health Minister Yuli Edelstein...

In light of the security situation, foreign airlines continue to cancel their flights to and from Israel in the coming days. Only a few foreign airlines continue to operate flights to Israel, including the Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia, and meanwhile also the Ethiopian Airlines, which at this stage has not yet announced the cancellation of the upcoming flight that is scheduled to depart at 1:00 at night, Play Dubai, Aegean Scheduled to fly on Monday and others. The first to cancel the flights were the American airlines United, Delta and American Airlines, which announced last...

About 26% of undergraduate students study computer science, including mathematics and statistics and engineering. This is the fourth year in a row that engineering studies are the most coveted study program in Israel. More than 38,000 students, which is 18.2% of the 208,461 undergraduate students, study engineering. This is according to the report of the Council for Higher Education ahead of the start of the academic year this coming Sunday. The report shows that engineering studies continue to overtake the social sciences, which for years have been considered the largest field of study in...