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The declining trend in morbidity continues: The Ministry of Health announced that 2,386 Israelis were diagnosed with corona yesterday, and another 409 received a positive response at midnight. The verified rate of the 84,286 tests sampled yesterday stands at just 2.9%. The coefficient of infection has already dropped to 0.8, a continuum that the Ministry of Health has previously defined as a condition for easing restrictions. As of tonight, 626 patients are hospitalized in critical condition, including 214 respirators. 5,988 people died in the outbreak. According to the Ministry of Health,...

Shikun VeBinui, controlled by Nati Saidoff, continues to expand its activities in the renewable energy market in the United States. Shikun VeBinui acquired 49% of a 400-megawatt energy storage facility under construction north of Los Angeles for NIS 190 million. By the Swiss investment fund Capital Dynamics, which specializes in investing in renewable energy assets. The project was purchased from Strata Solar and is located in the city of Oxnard, located 40 km north of Los Angeles. It was established at a total cost of NIS 750 million, financed in equal parts by equity and bank financing...

The industrial cyber company Clarotti raised $ 140 million in Round D. The company declined to state the value at which it raised, but learned that it stands at $ 1 billion. This is the company's first recruitment since 2018. The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners' Century II growth fund, set up to invest in market-leading companies, and 40 North, the investment arm of global industry giant Standard Industries. Other strategic investors who participated in the round are LG and I Squared Capital's ISQ Global InfraTech Fund. In addition, all previous investors in Clarotti -...

The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday evening that the number of those infected with the Omicron variant in Israel has risen to 11. According to the ministry statement, five of those infected returned from South Africa, two returned from France, one returned from Malawi, one from England and another from the US. Of the verified, four are not vaccinated, six are vaccinated in a third dose and another verified is vaccinated with the Astra-Zanka vaccine. According to the ministry's announcement, there are fears that another 24 people have been infected with the new strain of corona virus:...

A report by the Innovation Authority shows that the participation rate of women in high-tech is low - about a third of the employees. Only about nine and a half percent of the CEOs who have set up start-up companies are women and in fifty-seven percent of the major venture capital funds in recent years there is no woman appointed as a partner. The report also shows that forty-nine percent of all students in five units in mathematics are women and only about a third of those who take matriculation exams in computer science are women

Communications Minister Yoaz Handel and the head of the national cyber network, Gabi Portnoy, announced in a joint statement to the media, a series of measures that will require communications companies to prepare and implement cyber defense plans that will first include an orderly and unified system that will strengthen defense levels and actively prepare for cyber attacks. The decision was made after a hearing last August in the Ministry of Communications, according to which the licenses of the communications companies will be amended and provisions and a number of milestones will be set...

Israel celebrates 73: This morning (Thursday), President Reuven Rivlin hosted for the last time during his tenure the event "All Israel from Jerusalem" and the ceremony of the 120 outstanding soldiers. Chief of Staff Major General Aviv Kochavi also attended the event, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz are not attending this year due to Corona restrictions. Rivlin congratulated the outstanding soldiers. "My dear, I must say that I am excited to stand before you here today, for the last time as President. On this Independence Day you and you give us 120...

An up-to-date forecast published by the Ministry of Economy and Industry predicts an all-time record in Israeli exports in 2021, and may amount to at least $ 135 billion - an increase of 18.5% compared to the volume of exports from Israel in 2020. Last year, exports from Israel totaled $ 114 billion, a decrease of 3% compared to the volume of exports from it in 2019. The forecast is based on Israel's export data for the first three quarters of the year. The Ministry of Economy's Foreign Trade Administration said today that the growing trend in exports, which has been evident since the...

4,916 Israelis received a message on Thursday that they are positive about Corona. This is the highest daily verified number since September 27th. However, Channel 12 reported that the Ministry of Health is considering abolishing the isolation of returnees abroad. A total of 157,600 tests were deciphered and the positive rate was 3.15%. This is the highest positive percentage since October 1st. At the same time, the infection rate continues to rise and this morning stands at 1.71 - indicating a very widespread spread of the plague. 169 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals around...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett today (Sunday) instructed to increase enforcement of corona restrictions. In a conference he convened, the prime minister ordered the filing of criminal indictments against patients who violate isolation, the definition of events - with an emphasis on marriages - as a priority for enforcement and the regulation of legal approvals for the use of technological means to monitor isolates