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"You should buy fast, even if it's a package of 20 antigen tests, because if you come in another hour there will be no more," the saleswoman at the Good Pharm branch on Florentine Street explained to one of the customers today (Sunday). The Super-Pharm branch, which is 200 meters away, has not been inspected since Thursday. The cashier says they were assured that the inventory would be replenished later in the day, but she does not know exactly when. Since the Ministry of Health announced last week that vaccines exposed to a verified patient will be able to settle for a home corona test to...

There is no doubt that returning first- and second-graders to school is much more important. It is not only that the importance to the economy of first and second grade students is greater, because it is more difficult to keep them at home, even with a big brother. It is also the tremendous damage done to first graders in literacy and basic arithmetic. The Minister for Social Equality, Meirav Cohen, asked the cabinet why not switch, that grades 1-2 would be in full capsules and grades 3-4 would study alternately. Education Minister Yoav Galant's unconvincing answer was that there was a...

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,...

The approaching holidays mark not only the massive departure of Israelis abroad, but also the arrival of tourists who return to flood the streets of the cities. However, despite a considerable recovery in the arrival of tourists, the inbound tourism industry reports that they are still not arriving here in the numbers they were before the corona virus - while Israelis are flocking abroad in droves, and the figures are already equaling, and even surpassing, the numbers before the crisis. The number of tourists reaches 60%-70% of their number before the crisis. According to data from the...

The government is trying to fight the implications of the Corona crisis. it was reported this morning that the Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, and the Minister of Economy and Industry, Amir Peretz, agreed on a plan to encourage investment and employment in the manufacturing and high-tech industries in the amount of NIS 1.1 billion. Manufacturers Association. The program includes budgets to encourage investment, R&D and innovation as well as opening markets with an emphasis on enterprises affected by the crisis and retaining a significant proportion of their workers, a budget for...

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,...

1,721 public sector wage anomalies were identified among physicians last year. This emerges from the report of the wage anomalies to the public sector of the wage commissioner Kobi Bar-Natan regarding the activity of the enforcement unit in the last two years, which was published on Tuesday. About 62% of the employees who exceed the ranking of doctors are employed by Clalit Health Fund. During the past year a collective hearing was sent to doctors at this fund. In light of this, it was decided to classify them as alleged exceptions (all the anomalies identified in the past year and their...

Between March-October this year, 2,586 more Israelis died than in these months in 2019. That means this year there are 9% more deceased. This is according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, which is published at noon (Thursday). The CBS said that the difference compared to 2019 is mainly in the months of August to October, when 2,207 corona patients died in Israel - 960 of them in October alone. The CBS added that the total mortality rate from the end of March - when the first deaths in Israel were recorded from the corona - until the end of October was 10.4% higher than the...

An Israeli cargo ship was attacked in the Persian Gulf, near the UAE port of Fujairah, according to a report in Lebanon. According to the report, this is a ship carrying cars called the "Ray Canopy", which made its way from Kuwait to the Emirates, waving the Bahamas flag. The ship, owned by Israeli businessman Rami Unger, was hit by missile fire - and the damage caused to it is defined as light. Following the injury, she was forced to enter the port area of ​​the UAE and perform damage control. Media close to the Iranian regime reported that the damage to the ship occurred after a 48-hour...

International pressure on Israel is gaining momentum. Many countries express dissatisfaction with the continuation of Israel's massive attacks in the Gaza Strip, attacks that have killed more than one hundred and seventy Israelis. President Biden has twice called on Prime Minister Netanyahu and expressed concern about the number of innocent casualties in the Gaza Strip. China and the European Union are also putting pressure on Israel to end the fighting.