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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...

The number of corona patients who are in a serious condition continues to decline, and their number on Tuesday evening is 489. This is the first time since August 13 that the number of patients is seriously lower than 500. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 197 of the seriously ill patients are connected to respirators. Of the 489 patients who were severe, 363 were not vaccinated at all, 79 received the two vaccine doses but not the booster dose and 33 were also vaccinated in the third dose. In fact, more than 76% of severe patients are not vaccinated, compared with less than 7%...

Corona's isolation has only recently been shortened from ten days to seven, and is now expected to be further shortened: Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz on Sunday evening ordered his office staff to shorten Corona's isolation shortening from seven to five days, but Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has not yet formulated his position. However, there are growing assessments in the health system that the move will eventually be approved, and final discussions on the issue are expected to take place tomorrow and the day after.

The Employment Service reports this morning (Monday) that in the last day 18,566 new jobseekers were registered, with 39,308 unemployed registered since the closure and since Sunday, 27.12.2020, the day the closure began, a total of 99,234 new jobseekers were registered. The update also shows that 81,923 of the unemployed were released on unpaid leave, and their share of all new job seekers is 82.5%, while 17,311 of them have been fired or resigned and their share stands at 17.5% of all registrants since the closure began

The salary of senior officials in the economy increased by about 13% in 2021 and averaged about 1.93 million shekels, compared to about 1.71 million shekels a year earlier.The average salary of senior executives even exceeded what they received in 2019, before the corona virus, when it was about NIS 1.86 million - an increase of about 3.5%. This is according to the data of an economic study recently conducted by the consulting and accounting firm BDO in the field of remuneration of senior officers, which monitors the salary of the five senior officers (Chairman, CEO, CEO of a subsidiary...

The average budget for a state-religious high school student in 2021 was NIS 41,400 - 26% more than the budget for a state high school student, which was over NIS 32,800. This was the gap in 2020 as well - thereby maintaining the large gap between the two sectors this year as well. This is according to the "Budgetary Transparency" presentation for 2021 published today (Sunday) by the Ministry of Education. These disparities are the result of the period in which ministers from the religious parties ruled the ministry, between 2015 and 2020 - first Naftali Bennett and then Rafi Peretz - who...

The Corona Cabinet decided on Tuesday evening to impose further restrictions on the public in view of the increase in Corona morbidity, including the expansion of the green label outline. The public will be required to wear masks even in open spaces during gatherings. The list of countries from which returnees will be required to enter isolation has been expanded, even if we have been vaccinated before leaving for them. Most of the decisions will take effect next Sunday, August 8th. During the discussion, some of the ministers raised the possibility that another closure would be imposed on...

The ratio between the number of jobseekers and the number of job vacancies fell in February to 1.1, the lowest figure since 2009. This is according to the employment market pulse report of the employment service. This means that 1.1 employees applied for each position, and this ostensibly indicates the possibility of almost every employee finding a job. For comparison, at the beginning of 2021, about 12 job seekers competed for each vacancy. This is the best ratio since 2009, and much better than the one recorded in Israel on the eve of the crisis (1.7)

Enterprise video solutions company Kaltura reports that it has received a purchase offer at a value of $383 million, a 27% premium over the last closing price on Wall Street. The potential buyer is a competitor of Kaltura called Panopto, which already at the beginning of June announced its intention to buy Kaltura. Earlier this month, it already put a concrete offer on the table, but Kaltura for its part only disclosed the contacts now, when the offer was improved, and more importantly - when Panopto's partner in the move, the K1 Foundation, became an interested party in Kaltura and left...

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.