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The Ministry of Health updated the corona data in Israel, with the end of the Yom Kippur fast. According to the new data, 8,586 new positives were diagnosed in Corona on Wednesday and now the number of active patients in Israel stands at 83,652 patients. The percentage of positive tests yesterday was 5.93% and the coefficient of infection is 1.14. The number of severe patients is 654 patients, of whom 237 are defined as critical and 186 are respiratory. The number of deaths from the plague also increased during the holiday and now stands at 7,465. The fight against the plague continues all...

The Corona Cabinet approved by telephone the outline formulated by the Ministry of Justice for the pilot for the opening of the malls, which is expected to begin tomorrow, Friday. The layout has created legal difficulties, because it initially includes the opening of only 15 malls, and therefore harms the value of equality. To solve the difficulty, the ministry proposed a combined solution, according to which six large malls across the country would be selected by the Malls Association, and another nine would be selected by lottery. Six malls from the two major groups that will be opened...

In 2020, the profits of government companies in Israel amounted to NIS 2.9 billion - compared with NIS 4 billion in 2019; This is due to losses amounting to NIS 643 million in the Israel Post attributed to the corona year, and expenses of more than NIS 950 million in respect of retirement benefits for employees at the Haifa Post and Port prior to their privatization. The operating profit data make it possible to examine the decrease in the companies 'profitability due to the corona, less the one-time events, and these data indicate a decrease of about NIS 350 million in the companies'...

The report of the Wage Commissioner relating to the health system in 2020 reflects well not only the main health development of that year - the corona plague - but sheds light on the structural problems of the most complex system in the public sector. The clear conclusion from 2020 is that the Israeli government has significantly increased Not only the number of employees in the system but also their salaries. In other words, the government has significantly increased inputs to health. The corona has only increased the jump, as the trend is clear when looking at the system over a period...

The chief economist at the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg, undermines the Ministry of Housing's hopes that the prices of apartments in the free market will be curbed following the renewal of subsidized housing tenders.The increase in apartment seekers in the free market has led to an increase in general demand and an increase in apartment prices. This claim was also influenced by contractors and apartment marketers and was quoted extensively in the media. Accordingly, the Ministry of Housing argued that the resumption of lottery operations would return those eligible to the waiting...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Ministry Director General Prof. Nachman Ash announced Sunday that the government is preparing to purchase Pfizer's drug for Corona patients in Israel. Why is it different from previous epidemic treatments, how effective is it, who will receive it and in what dosage, and is Israel really lagging behind other countries in negotiations with the pharmaceutical company? Dr. Erez Gerty of the Davidson Institute, the educational arm of the Weizmann Institute, explains that “if the results are correct, there is a significant change here in the way we deal...

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.

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 Central Bureau of Statistics today publishes an amazing statistic regarding the number of vacancies in the economy. According to the CBS, the number of job vacancies was about 112.5 thousand jobs in March, which is the highest estimate observed since the beginning of the survey in 2009. The highest estimate so far was 106.5 in May 2017. The vacancy rate for March is 4.43% compared to the average vacancy rate of 3.59% in 2019 and 2.47% in 2020. There has been an increase in the number of job vacancies in all sectors of the economy surveyed compared to the 2020 average, and the most...

According to the guidelines of the Home Front Command, studies will not be held tomorrow (Thursday) in most parts of the country - from the Gaza Strip to the localities of Gush Dan and the Sharon. Home Front Command guidelines also apply to Friday until the end of the school day. Since schoolchildren go on holiday for weeks, at this stage the studies are expected to resume on Wednesday, after Shavuot has been banned and only if there is an improvement in the security situation. Following the guidelines, about one million students will not attend school by Wednesday. The guidelines also...