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The Agency for Small and Medium Businesses in the Ministry of Economy and Industry is launching an aid program to promote digitization and computer systems for businesses in the amount of NIS 18 million; Up to NIS 350,000 for a business that will make investments to advance computing, which will lead to an increase in productivity and improve competitiveness. In order to increase the use of digital tools among businesses, the Small and Medium Business Agency is launching grants of up to NIS 350,000 per business, for the benefit of implementing computer systems and digital tools

"The framework of labor relations and wage rules in the public sector in Israel have remained almost unchanged since the 1950s." This is stated in a report on the wage strategy in the public sector in Israel, published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which includes a review of the wage mechanisms and bargaining systems in the public sector in Israel, along with operational proposals for efficiency. In the report, the authors point to various characteristics of the salaries of public sector workers in Israel, which they claim adversely affect...

The Israeli cyber giant Check Point presented its second-quarter report and managed to overtake the analysts' forecasts in the key indicators: the company's revenues jumped by 9% to 571 million dollars, and the diluted earnings per share (the key figure in this article which is Non -GAAP) was $1.64, compared to average expectations for revenues of $560 million and earnings per share of $1.62

Thousands of people celebrated from Saturday afternoon at the flea market in Jaffa - but the police arrived to disperse them only after about three hours. The partygoers, most of them in costumes, crowded the narrow alleys of the market, taking drinks and food they had taken at takeaways. Inside the crowd there were also spontaneous parties with music heard from the businesses, with the partygoers dancing - almost no one kept their distance or put on a mask. Later, the celebrations in the market resumed on another street. The police claimed that police officers from the Jaffa station had...

Pfizer's Child Vaccines Launch: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration confirmed the panel of experts 'decision Friday night and issued an emergency approval for Pfizer's coronary vaccines for children ages 5 to 11. The FDA agreed with the experts' decision that the vaccine given in a third of adults is safe and effective. In the prevention of infection and disease in the corona. This coming Thursday, the Ministry of Health's epidemic treatment team is expected to hold a similar discussion ahead of the recommendation to approve vaccines in Israel. The discussion will be held for the first...

The consumer price index rose in June, according to forecasts, by 0.4%. The rise in the index in June accelerates the rate of inflation in Israel and it now reached 4.4% - a record since March 2011. The most significant price increases were recorded in transportation items, which increased by 2.4%, housing, which increased by 0.7%, culture and entertainment, which increased by 0.7%, and health, which increased by 0.6%. On the other hand, due to seasonality, there were significant price decreases in the vegetable and fruit sections, which decreased by 8.5% and clothing and footwear, which...

1,256,077 Israelis were diagnosed from the beginning of the month until yesterday afternoon (Thursday) as positive for Corona. This is according to data from the Ministry of Health. This is the highest monthly number of verified people since the outbreak of the plague and in fact 47.5% of all verified people - since the first Israeli received a positive answer in the corona test - were diagnosed this month. Data from the Ministry of Health show that from Sunday to Thursday at noon, 405,667 Israelis were diagnosed as positive for Corona. For comparison, in January and February 2021 - the...

The Employment Service report, the first part of which is published today, shows that the number of jobseekers claiming unemployment stood at 490,855 in April, and decreased by 14.4% compared to March. The cumulative number of all jobseekers also decreased by 13.6%. Regarding this figure, it should be noted that most of the decrease was recorded among jobseekers who were on unpaid leave. The number of job seekers registered is the lowest since the second closure. There was also a significant improvement in the number of job seekers in relation to each vacancy: in April the best figure was...

Experts advising the Ministry of Health and the Corona Cabinet claim that since the beginning of November there has been a decline in the level of vaccine effectiveness, and that there are clear signs of another outbreak of the disease. At the Corona Cabinet hearing held tonight (Tuesday), Prime Minister Naftali Bennett instructed to promote an antigen test operation in the education system ahead of returning to school after the Hanukkah holiday. It was also decided at the hearing to extend the green label regulations for another two weeks, subject to the approval of the Knesset's...