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Chip giant Intel has announced that it has decided to provide its employees around the world, and also in Israel, with benefits worth more than $ 2 billion, half of which will be reflected in benefits in the salaries of the company's employees and more than $ 1.4 billion will be in options granted to employees. Most of the benefits are intended for existing company employees and a small portion of it is intended for new employees. The company currently employs about 110,000 employees worldwide, of which about 14,000 in Israel. If the payment is divided equally, which is unlikely to happen,...

The Innovation Authority today released its comprehensive report for 2022, which raises a number of issues that are of great concern to the local high-tech industry. The State of Israel is failing to integrate ultra-Orthodox and Arabs into the high-tech industry in significant numbers, despite investing tens of millions of shekels in efforts to integrate them into high-tech. According to the report, Israel ranks first in OECD countries in terms of R&D expenditure relative to GDP. In 2019, Israel first crossed the 5% threshold in this index, and in 2020 the figure was already 5.44%. On the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the much-awaited plan with Finance Minister Israel Katz on Thursday evening. Netanyahu took responsibility and admitted that the opening of the economy may have been premature. He delayed the transfer of funds to the business owners, and pledged that bureaucrats would be handed over to the self-employed as early as next week. Netanyahu emphasized: "We are in the midst of a second wave of the Corona. It has come to us and it has reached other countries as well. In my estimation, it will not pass on almost any country. "We have had a success in the...

The Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, has decided to increase the income supplement for seniors. The benefit will increase by almost NIS 500 per person. The Ministry of Finance says that the move means that exercising the rights to receive income supplementation will allow the elderly to receive income above the poverty line. Income supplement is paid to adults whose income is low, usually without a pension, and who are mainly based on an old-age pension. The average benefit today is NIS 3,230 per person per month, and will now increase to at least NIS 3,710 per month. This amount is...

Education and health ministries on Monday concluded an outline for a gradual return to elementary, middle and high school studies. The ministry has concluded that fourth-12th graders will return to school this Sunday, May 17, but only for part of the week and in a limited format. All classes will be divided into separate groups of 20 students. According to the layout, students will not be required to wear a mask, but will keep two meters apart. The teacher will also keep a similar distance from the students, and if he travels between them, they will be required to wear masks. It was...

The Ministry of Defense has identified and thwarted a phishing attack against employees of the defense industries in Israel, which was intended to infiltrate their corporate computer networks, the ministry announced today (Wednesday). According to the Ministry of Defense, the investigation of the affair shows that the attempted attack was carried out by an international cyber system called "Lazarus", which is backed by a foreign country, with the help of social engineering and impersonation

The Labor and Welfare Committee today (Sunday) approved for the second and third reading the outline proposed by the committee's chairman, MK Haim Katz,for the government to finance most of the isolation days of the workers. According to the outline, workers will bear the cost of only one day and will be deducted up to four sick days. The state will reimburse the employer for 75% of the cost of isolation for employers up to 20 workers, and 50% of the cost for the rest. The indemnity will be provided through the National Insurance Institute

Two young men in their 20s were injured in a stabbing attack, one of them seriously and the other lightly. They were stabbed on Haim Bar Lev Boulevard in Jerusalem, near the light rail station not far from the national police headquarters. MDA staff arrived at the scene and treated the two and evacuated them to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus. Police officers who arrived at the scene began investigating the circumstances of the case, at the same time the terrorist was shot and neutralized. MDA paramedic Sigalit Mizrahi said: "We arrived at the scene and saw two wounded with stab wounds...

The Knesset's Constitution Committee is expected to approve the regulations approved by the Corona Cabinet last night. The Corona Cabinet approved the outline proposed by the Prime Minister's Office together with the Ministry of Health, according to which on the night between Sunday and Monday the new restrictions will take effect for two weeks to deal with the entry of the new Omicron variant. After the team of experts presented to the ministers his position, which emphasizes the importance of the vaccine more than ever, the ministers voted to close Israel to foreigners for two weeks....