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The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday evening that 15 more people have been diagnosed as verified with the Omicron strain in Israel. To date, 67 verified persons have been identified in Israel: 44 who returned from South Africa, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Italy, Namibia and Turkey. Infected. The Ministry of Health also stated that out of those 67 verified, 13 are defined as unprotected (unvaccinated, recovering six months after recovery and vaccinated in a second dose six months after the date of vaccination) and 54 are...

Elbit Systems reports another huge deal, in which it will provide the European country with intelligence systems for $ 660 million. The contract will be performed over a period of four years and includes a maintenance period of an additional ten years. Most of the revenue will be recognized over the four years of delivery of the orders, and some will be recognized throughout the maintenance period

The labor market is expected to immediately face a fundamental change, whereby thousands of workers will be able to get to their jobs even if they have been infected with the corona virus. This is on the condition that their illness is without symptoms and that they will not meet on their way to the workplace and the factory where they are employed by any other worker while they are there. The innovation, which mainly concerns workers in industry, may in fact eliminate the need for many workers in isolation and help workplaces overcome the absence in recent days of many workers, including...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened a press conference on Sunday evening following the widespread of the Omicron strain across the country - and announced that the Ministry of Health has approved a fourth vaccine for all those aged 60 and up. "The wave of omicrons is here, and I want to give the citizens of Israel as complete a picture as possible," Bennett said at the beginning of the statement, which, for the first time since the increase in morbidity, was conditional on a rapid corona examination. "It is different from previous varieties and behaves differently, and this requires us...

A new estimate, the second this year, of the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) on the Israeli economy, indicates a worsening in the decline in the gross domestic product in the first quarter by 1.9%, compared to the estimate published last month, according to which growth in Israel was only 1.6%. It should be noted that the gross domestic product per capita recorded a more significant decrease of 3.5% due to the increase in the population. Hogg argues that two consecutive quarters of negative growth indicate the beginning of a recession, but at present, there is no data on the second...

First cases of the Brazilian variant of Corona in Israel: A vaccinated baby and adult who returned from abroad became infected with the Brazilian variant and were diagnosed in Israel. The Ministry of Health said on Monday evening that a first case of the variant originating in Chile had also been diagnosed in an Israeli who had returned from abroad. The Ministry of Health announced that as of Monday, new directives regarding entry into and exit from and from Israel came into force. The National Genome Flooring Array has located 19 more verified Indian strain among foreigners. A total of...

A slight and disappointing decline was recorded in unemployment in June, despite the end of the unemployment benefit extensions at the end of that month. The unemployment rate according to the CBS 'extended calculation fell from 9.8% in May to 9% in June, a decrease of only 25,000 unemployed. The unemployment rate according to the limited calculation used by the Treasury has dropped from 6.8% to 6.6% and in only 5,000 people. This is according to data from the Labor Force Survey of the Central Bureau of Statistics for June. The real test of the economy will be whether there will be a big...

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...

Israel's economy is ranked 25th out of 63 countries defined as "developed", in the Competitiveness Index of the Swiss Research Institute IMD represented in Israel by the Association of Chambers of Commerce. , Only in 53rd place. The IMD Research Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes that examines once a year the degree of competitiveness between national economies on the basis of various criteria. The Global Competitiveness Index, published annually by the Institute, ranks 63 countries according to various economic parameters and is based on data collected from...