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The State Comptroller's interim report on the handling of the corona crisis reveals a long list of shortcomings that need treatment. However, it does not touch on the main failure: decision-making in the government and in the Corona Cabinet. Even those who agree with Matanyahu Engelman's view that there is no room for personal criticism of decision-makers will find it difficult to justify the lack of criticism of decision-making processes. In doing so, the comptroller misses an opportunity for a thorough repair, and instead of going up to the government floor, he stays in the field clerks

The Ministry of Environmental Protection's Environmental Impact Index for 2019, published for the ninth year, provides the rating of the environmental impact of companies and enterprises that are publicly and government-owned. The index provides the public with comparative and simple information on the performance and environmental risks of public companies with large environmental impact and the factories they own. The index examines in depth the environmental risk of 49 public companies, 124 large industrial plants and about 700 gas stations, and its methodology is based on the...

The Ministry of Finance is expected to announce in the coming days assistance to the aviation and tourism industries in Israel, in light of the fear that these industries will suffer another severe blow in the coming months due to the spread of the new Corona strain, Omicron, and additional restrictions on flights. On Sunday, the Ministry of Finance decided that there is no escape from assistance to these two industries, which have been affected more than any other industry in the economy since the Corona crisis began in March 2020. However, it is now clear that further heavy damage is...

The deficit figures published by the Accountant General of the Ministry of Finance, Yahli Rotenberg, reveal that the budget deficit in relation to GDP in Israel is only 1.4% - the lowest since 2008, when Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was still and Finance Minister Roni Brown was. In March, a total budget surplus of NIS 700 million was measured, making March the third month in a row that a budget surplus was measured - a situation that has not been remembered for years. The total budget surplus in the budget already reaches NIS 23.4 billion in the first quarter of the year. The huge decline in...

Cultural performances will resume immediately in open spaces. The complexes will be divided into capsules of up to 20 people in each group. Each performance will require prior approval from the Ministry of Health. This is the outline that was agreed upon on Sunday evening and presented at the end of a meeting of representatives of the cultural industry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Israel Katz, Minister of Culture and Sports Hili Trooper and Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein. Simultaneously with this meeting, several hundred people from the cultural industry...

Perimeter 81, which develops advanced cloud solutions for network management and security, announced the closure of a third round of funding (Round C) worth $ 100 million, at a value of $ 1 billion. The fundraising round was led by the American fund B-Capital, and was attended by ION Crossover Ventures, Toba Capital, Insight Partners and Entree Capital. Among the existing investors in the company: Spring Ventures, led by Aviv Refuah and private investors. The round of funding completed last weekend puts the total capital raised by the company at $ 165 million. Founded in 2018 by Amit...

The holes in Israel's social security network widened even before the corona crisis, according to data from the April edition of the publication "Social Security in the World" in the National Insurance Institute. According to the document, public welfare expenditure in Israel in 2019 was among the lowest in the OECD and stood at 16.3% of gross national product (GDP). This figure places Israel in 30th place out of 37 countries. 17% of GDP in 2017. In the Corona crisis itself, public spending increased at a rate similar to the OECD average, but it cannot be concluded that Israel has bridged...

Contrary to expectations, the number of people resigning in 2020, the first year of the corona crisis, rose by 60%. This is despite the severe unemployment crisis. Between 2014 and 2019, there was a steady increase in the rate of resignations from 12% to 16% of all job seekers. But these were mainly strong job seekers with high skills and academic occupations. However, during the Corona crisis, there was a large increase in the proportion of low-wage and unskilled resigners. This is what the employment service report shows. The service explains the phenomenon by guaranteeing the payment of...

The tax on fuel known as "blo" will be reduced by half a shekel, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced today (Tuesday), despite the opposition of professional ranks. The reduction will be made for the next quarter only, after which a reassessment will be made as to whether to continue the extension. The reduction will be implemented immediately and is subject to the approval of the Finance Committee

The Corona Cabinet has decided not to further ease the restrictions at this stage, and to discuss this again next week in accordance with the updated morbidity data. According to the position of the Ministry of Health, it is not possible to bring forward the opening of the stores, which is scheduled for November 15. At the hearing, Finance Minister Israel Katz called on ministers to allow small businesses and shops on the street, hairdressers and beauty and cosmetics salons to resume their activities as early as Sunday, to allow self-collection from all businesses from tomorrow and to...