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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...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced on Friday afternoon in the Kirya in Tel Aviv the completion of the deal with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to supply vaccines against Corona to Israel. The agreement relates to the purchase of eight million portions to be given to four million Israelis - two portions per person. Netanyahu also said that he was working to obtain vaccines for all citizens and noted that he was trying to promote Israel as a global leader. However, he clarified that the vaccines have not yet been approved by the US and Israeli...

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...

As part of the Histadrut's ongoing struggle against the cost of living in Israel, representatives of the Histadrut, social activists, and citizens came Friday afternoon to protest the cost of living in front of the house of the president of the Union of Chambers of Commerce Uriel Lin in north Tel Aviv. The activists waved signs that read, among other things, "The workers are the solution - not the problem", "The tycoons are the engine of the cost of living" and "The state belongs to the workers and not to the tycoons"

The results of the reading and reading comprehension tests conducted in the current school year among some 90,000 fourth-graders are very worrying. Despite the experience of the Ministry of Education, it is impossible to hold on to the corona crisis and the long closures as an excuse for the dismal situation. The closures hurt students, as did the political upheavals, frequent changes of ministers, the lack of a state budget and the general neglect of the field of education by previous governments. But the findings published today are reminiscent in severity of those obtained in the...

Data from the Employment Service published on Thursday show that already this week the ratio between those fired and those going on vacation without pay and those who have already returned has decreased. Thus, in the fourth week of quarantine for every ten registrants in the employment service, 1.3 job seekers returned to the labor force, while in the fifth week, the ratio almost doubled, with every 2.3 registrants returning to work 2.3 job seekers. Either way, it seems that the trend will be reversed as early as next week and more workers will return to work than go on vacation and be...

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

On the night between Saturday and Sunday (May 14/15), very strong winds hit the north of the country, reaching speeds of over 100 km / h in many areas, including the Hula Valley, the mountain area, and the southern Golan Heights, and Beit She'an Valley. "The damage to farmers is estimated at ten million shekels

A record in shopping ahead of Rosh Hashanah: this year in September we spent over NIS 38.811 billion on credit cards within Israel - an increase of 21.4% compared to 2021. For comparison, in September 2021 expenditures totaling NIS 31.961 billion were recorded, according to data from the Automated Bank Services Company, which manages and develops The national credit card payment system. The data does not include online purchases from websites abroad and does not include shopping overseas