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The rate of positive tests is lower than one percent in the last whole week. The number of verified daily has been lower than 500 for two weeks. The coefficient of infection also decreases. Still, most schoolchildren still study in capsules - so stay home most of the day. Data from the Ministry of Health published on Saturday evening show that the rate of positive tests has been lower than 1% for six days in a row. Yesterday the positive rate was 0.6%. A total of 221 Israelis were diagnosed positive for Corona yesterday (Friday), and another 48 have been diagnosed since midnight. A total...

The recovery in economic activity in Israel continues, according to two indices published today. The first is the Accountant General's announcement that the cumulative deficit in the last 12 months reached the end of June reached 10.1% in relation to GDP, which is NIS 144.6 billion, compared with 10.5% at the end of May. The second figure comes from another division of the Ministry of Finance, the Tax Authority, which reports an increase in imports to Israel, an increase that indicates an increase in private consumption. The Accountant General's announcement in the Treasury also shows...

Cisco's second acquisition in Israel in three months: The American company acquired the Israeli start-up Epsagon for $ 400 million. Epsagon was established four years ago and is developing a platform for identifying and fixing faults in cloud applications. Epsagon was founded by Nitzan Shapira and Ren Rabensaft, and raised $ 30 million over the years. Prominent investors in the company include Lightspeed, Stagevan, Deutsche Telekom Partners and USVP, as well as the founders of Armis Nadir Jezreel and Yevgeny Dibrov

Israel will be officially opened to inbound tourism tomorrow with a new outline formulated by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Tourism, under which vaccinated and recovering tourists will be able to enter Israel. This is the first time the state has allowed single tourists to officially enter Israel since the start of the Corona crisis. At the same time, a new corona test system will begin operating tomorrow at Ben Gurion Airport, with Pangia replacing Omega (Check to Play) with tests for departing tourists. The new tourist entry plan states that foreigners who have been...

The Ministry of Health announced that for the first time seven cases of an Indian mutation of the Corona virus were identified in Israel among unvaccinated citizens who returned from abroad. The ministry said there was still no clear information regarding this variant and its implications for the vaccinated and recovering. The cases were identified using the National Genomic Flooring Array. In its announcement, the Ministry of Health emphasized the importance of isolating returnees from abroad to Israel, especially from countries where morbidity in Corona is severe. Prof. Galia Rahav,...

Ministry of Finance officials have already estimated that their work on the 2023 budget will probably be in vain, and this evening on Wednesday Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman confirmed the assessment and announced that budget discussions are frozen at this stage. This is after the coalition suffered another discrimination in the Knesset with the minimum wage law of the opposition, which passed a preliminary reading contrary to the government's position. Lieberman said after his decision: "This is not the right time to bring in a budget, until everything calms down and stabilizes."

Starting this May, some 3,600 IEC employees will be allowed to work from home regularly for two days a week. This is according to an agreement signed between the Electric Company, the person in charge of wages at the Ministry of Finance, the Companies Authority and the workers' organization. According to the agreement, those employees whose work allows it will be allowed to work from home (subject to corona status), when one of the two days will be mandatory and the company's sites will be closed for efficiency reasons. On the other working days of the week, the employees will come to the...

The Ministry of Finance will assist in a particularly limited program with the exception of the self-employed who were partially injured as a result of the spread of the Omicron strain in the past two months. The pressure of small and medium-sized self employed businesses did not seem to help. Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced in the Knesset that the outline formulated by the Ministry of Finance to assist small and medium-sized businesses up to a turnover of NIS 60 million per year will be limited and will include maximum assistance of NIS 600,000 only for businesses damaged by...

The General Security Service announced on Friday that it had reached agreements with the security authorities in the United Arab Emirates that would allow Israeli companies to continue flying to Dubai. Last month, there was concern that the activity of Israeli airlines on the Israel-Dubai route would be stopped next week, due to a security dispute between the security authorities in Dubai and the Israeli aviation security system.

Cellcom reported the results of the first quarter of 2022, in which it continues the positive trend and shows the highest profit in the last 20 quarters - NIS 28 million, this is the first report under the new CEO Daniel Sapir. Available foreign cash amounted to NIS 52 million, with a growth of 31,000 mobile subscribers in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, a growth of 6,000 Internet infrastructure subscribers in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, and a growth of 2,000 TV subscribers in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter