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Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen and Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, opened the festive salute marking 70 years of Israeli innovation at the UN headquarters in New York, attended by more than 500 diplomats and community leader Jewish community in North America. Minister Cohen arrived on an official visit to Canada and the United States as head of a government delegation including Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Innovation Authority, Dr. Ami Appelbaum, Head of the Foreign Trade Administration, Ohad Cohen, and Chairman of the Export Institute Adiv Baruch.

An AI-based patient safety solution developed by Israeli medical tech startup MedAware identified over 10,000 potential medical errors and adverse drug events, with an accuracy rate of over 90 percent, according to a new study co-authored by Harvard researchers. The study, published last month by the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, analyzed MedAware's machine learning-enabled clinical decision support platform, designed to prevent medication-related errors, at the outpatient clinics of Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals. The system flagged...

Israeli company Simbionix, the simulator division of 3D Systems Corporation, which specializes in the development of manufacturing of medical simulators, including ultra-sound, has harnessed its capabilities to help fight COVID-19. Simbionix has developed a unique training module for diagnosing COVID-19 with a lung pulmonary. Developed in collaboration with medical teams across the globe and Israel, including Dr. Lior Fuchs, member of Ben Gurion University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and senior physician at the Intensive Internal Care Unit at the Soroka University Medical Center, and Dr....

The number of engineering students topped the number of social science students in the past school year, according to data published by the Council for Higher Education. In total, 34.6 thousand students studied engineering, 18.3% of all students. 34 thousand studied social sciences (17.9%). If the mathematics and computer sciences are added, where about 15,500 students studied, they understand that a quarter of all students in Israel study engineering and computer science, which are the core of Israeli high-tech

The Central Bureau of Statistics publishes quality of life indices in major cities for 2018 - the data shows that Ramat Gan is the leader in most quality of life indices. It leads to a life expectancy and the rate of eligibility for adulthood among those aged 26. The involuntary part-time employment rate among Ramat Gan residents is the lowest. Streets leads to life satisfaction and median gross income from work. There are no fatalities in road accidents on the streets. In Rishon LeZion, the satisfaction of cleanliness in the residential area and the rate of internet use are highest. In...

A report by the Ministry of Finance reveals that there are too many teachers in Israel, and the worst ones are very difficult to fire. The average starting salary for teachers reached NIS 5,287 (gross) per month in 2020, according to data from the department in charge of salaries and employment agreements in the Ministry of Finance. This is a salary given in the average scope of work for beginning teachers (the salary for a full-time job is NIS 8,474, but beginning teachers are not employed full-time). Like other reports concerning the Israeli education system, the report of the...

The National Insurance Institute publishes the 2017 Wage and Income Survey and it turns out that Jerusalem residents are at the bottom of the list when it comes to earning a job. Of the major cities defined as cities with more than 200,000 residents, Jerusalem is at the bottom of the list. The average wage of workers in the capital of Israel reaches eighty-one and a half percent of the average wage in the economy. The average wage in August totaled NIS 10,808, an increase of 2.5% compared to last year. Since the beginning of 2018, the average wage in the economy is higher than NIS 10,000...

ALTIS, HOT's parent company, confirmed to the stock exchange this morning that HOT had made an offer to acquire the full shareholding of Partner. Eltis, of Patrick Darhi, approved but did not specify the content of the proposal. HOT submitted an offer to acquire 100% of Partner for more than NIS 3 billion. If the proposal is approved, the first merger in the cellular industry is expected to take place, after long months of talks where HOT, controlled by Darhi, wants to merge with one of the companies, Cellcom or Partner. Partner also announced that it had received a purchase offer from...

June 2021 set a new benchmark in apartment purchases since the peak set in June 2015 (then investors preceded their purchase against the background of the purchase tax increase), in this month 13.8 thousand apartments were purchased an increase of 26% compared to June last year. Due to the corona virus. It is difficult to say that the figure for the high volume of transactions published by the Chief Economist's Division of the Treasury was surprising, given the Bank of Israel's data on the volume of mortgages in June, which set an all-time high of NIS 11.6 billion. This amount was divided...