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At the Alon headquarters in the Home Front Command, efforts are being expanded to curb the corona virus, in light of the recent outbreaks of the Delta strain across the country. "The increase in morbidity is abnormal compared to what we expected," says a senior official at the headquarters, "because it is not just in children." He stressed that the headquarters is conducting "aggressive operations", which include sending epidemiological investigations and sampling to each outbreak point, and even increasing the number of investigators by about 500. However, for now there is no intention to...

The ruling of the Lod District Court Judge, Shmuel Bornstein, may force Teva to pay additional taxes in the hundreds of millions of shekels. Judge Bornstein rejected Teva's appeal (-6.72% 2915) against an order filed by the Jerusalem Assessing Officer regarding the tax years 2008–2011. At the heart of the dispute between Teva and the tax authority was the question of whether Teva's use of tax-exempt profits for the acquisition of Ivax, Barr, Ratiopharm and Cephalon, in the cumulative amount of $ 27 billion (of which $ 18 billion in cash), expires Teva's tax exemption. Under the Capital l...

Snow fell tonight in the northern and central mountains and in Jerusalem. The capital was painted white and the access roads to it - one, four-four-three and the tunnel road - were blocked. There will be no studies in Jerusalem today. At several points in the east of the city and in Beit Safafa, stones were thrown at the leveling vessels. The light rail and police vehicles were also stoned. Police arrested twenty-two suspects. Due to the storm, no studies will be held today in Mevaseret Zion, the northern Golan Heights, Safed, Kiryat Arba and the Gush Etzion Regional Council

Matthias Korman, Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), arrived at a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem today and presented a presentation to the Prime Minister and government ministers on the impact of the corona on the Israeli economy. In the presentation, data were presented to the ministers, according to which the increase in employment in the past year was higher than the average of the other OECD countries. So while the employment rate for ages 25-64 in Israel is about 75%, the average in the member states of the organization is about 70%....

The Employment Service on Monday released data on doubling the number of income support plaintiffs - citizens whose economic situation is particularly difficult - according to which their number has doubled since the outbreak of the corona crisis and the number of claims now stands, towards the end of 2020, at 115,336. The last time the number of income support claimants was so high was in 2013 when 120,000 people received an actual income guarantee. On the eve of the crisis, March 2020, the number of plaintiffs was only 59,000. 18,387 income support claimants and 44,086 unemployment...

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...

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'...

In 2021, the average wage in the economy was NIS 11,773. An increase of 2.3% compared to the same period last year and an increase of 9.2% compared to 2019 before the outbreak of the corona crisis. On the other hand, in the high-tech field, the average salary was NIS 26,494 - 2.25 times, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics published on Thursday. In December, the average wage in the economy was NIS 12,142, an increase of 7% compared to the previous month. This concludes a year with great volatility in the average wage resulting from changes in the labor market following...