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Sanctions by El Al workers' committees disrupt the company's regular activities on Independence Day. Mechanics at the company abandoned their positions this morning before the civilian flight of the airlines, and following the protest, El Al is not participating in the civilian flight. The EL AL workers' protest took place after the Minister of Transportation, Rabbi Michaeli, spoke this morning at the opening of the launch event of the Israeli Civil Aviation aircraft of Independence Day

A new era began tonight in the financial world. After a long period in which most countries around the world had a particularly low level of interest rates, the US Federal Reserve raised the interest rate from 0 to 0.25% - to 0.25% to 0.5%, for the first time since December 2018. Despite previous estimates that the war in Ukraine could delay interest rate hikes - high inflation, resulting from rapidly growing consumption as the Corona crisis subsided, overcame the war and led to the beginning of US interest rate hikes. The implication of raising interest rates tonight in the leading...

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...

The Ministry of Health announced today (Tuesday) that starting tomorrow, HMO insured persons aged 50 and over will be able to be vaccinated against the corona virus. The ministry said that the health funds should be contacted to schedule an appointment for the vaccine. Lowering the age of those allowed to be vaccinated comes at the same time as the teaching staff vaccination campaign that began today. 39,678 people were vaccinated against the virus yesterday, and so far 1.9 million Israelis have been vaccinated. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 73% of citizens over the age of 60...

The contractors sold only 1,819 apartments in October, which is a 68% decrease compared to October 2021 and a 34% decrease compared to sales in September - according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is the lowest volume of sales recorded in the industry since the corona virus shutdown in April 2020

The new corona projector, Prof. Nachman Ash, said tonight (Thursday) that one must prepare for at least another year of dealing with the plague. In a first briefing on the plague situation since taking office he added that "a third closure is definitely on the agenda". The briefing takes place against the background of the increase in the number of people diagnosed in recent days, which stood at more than a thousand yesterday. However, the positive rate remained below 2% and stood at 1.8% yesterday. "I and all the leaders of the struggle in Corona, see the heavy prices you pay and the...

The Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, rejected the harsh criticism leveled at him for his decision to introduce a criterion of exhausting earning capacity to subsidize day care centers as early as September - a move that will lead to the cessation of subsidies for 18,000 ultra-Orthodox families. "We did not invent the wheel," Lieberman told reporters at a special briefing with senior officials of his office ahead of the 2022-2021 budget. "I heard all the cries of the robbed Cossack. But we have done it twice already. Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also did it in 2003 and in...

The General Security Service will re-examine the security interrogation processes of workers in the vicinity of secure persons. This follows the filing of the indictment today (Thursday) against a cleaning worker at the home of Defense Minister Bnei Gantz for espionage. According to a GSS statement, the worker - an Israeli citizen named Omri Goren Gurochovsky, 37, from Lod with a criminal record - "turned on his own initiative, via a social network, to an entity affiliated with Iran and offered to assist him in various ways, given his access to the minister's house." The General Security...

More than 300,000 fines, with a total value of NIS 170 million, were imposed by the Israeli police on civilians for various violations of corona laws and regulations. So far, only about NIS 30 million has been paid, for 70,000 fines. The high number of fines and the burden imposed on citizens during a deep economic crisis raises the question of whether fines do achieve their purpose - deterring the public from violating regulations, and preventing the infection and spread of the corona virus. While the purpose of the laws and fines imposed for non-compliance is to maintain physical...

About two hours after the resignation of the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health, the Deputy Head of Public Health at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, gave a briefing to the media following the opening of street shops - a move she opposed - and the increase in infection in Israel. "To reach the next opening, we will need less than 500 verified corona patients a day - so there is still a long way to go." According to Dr. Elrai Price, "With the exit from the quarantine, the coefficient of infection increases. This is not surprising. We knew this was going to...