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Bloomberg News says it is possible to measure when the epidemic will end based on the current vaccination rate. To this end, Bloomberg has built the largest database of vaccines worldwide, having already given over 119 million doses in various countries. Scientists in the United States, including Dr. Anthony Pauchi, who was one of the top members of the Trump administration's team to deal with the corona virus, estimate that around 70 percent to 85 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated so we can return to normal life. The Bloomberg Surveillance Index shows that in some countries...

American supermarket giant 7Eleven on its way to Israel. The chain is in talks with Electra Consumer, which is controlled by the Zalkind family, to hand over a franchise in which a Fox partner controlled by Harel Wiesel is expected to be a partner. The American company will try - with the help of the Israeli partners - to quickly bite into a share of the Israeli convenience store market, which has a turnover of about NIS 10 billion a year and enjoys growth, according to people close to the negotiations. After the negotiations between the parties were exposed in the media, Fox (-2.05%...

The long-standing Alliance factory in Hadera, a key manufacturer of patented tires, will be permanently closed, Japanese multinational corporation Yokohama announced last month. The closure, set for December 31, 2024, follows a significant decline in orders, attributed to Israel's loss of its competitive edge in transportation, the company explained

Israel President Reuven Rivlin decided to convert about four months out of Nochi Dankner's imprisonment, on probation to be added to the probation sentence imposed on him. This decision will allow Dankner to stand before the parole committee soon, rather than face it as it should, in early May. The statement further states that "the decision was made on the basis of Dankner's medical condition these days. These are medical circumstances that were not before the court at sentencing and which, according to medical opinions, were greatly aggravated during his imprisonment and necessitated...

Facebook suspended the Likud's propaganda chat, Bibi Bot, this week, following a post calling for the public to be given personal details of citizens who have not yet been vaccinated in Corona, the social network confirmed tonight. On Saturday, Dr. Anat Ben-David of the Open University revealed that Bibi Bot, a key figure in Likud election campaign in the form of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is asking his followers to send him confidential medical information about their relatives and acquaintances. We have not yet been vaccinated, "he wrote," you can write to me here in response to...

Israeli democracy - disabled. On the night between Wednesday and Thursday, the Knesset plenum approved the law, also known as the "Great Corona Law," which will allow the government to declare restrictions on Corona without waiting for Knesset approval. 48 voted for the law, 35 opposed, and no one abstained. Contrary to the original intention, which would have allowed the government to bypass the Knesset and issue immediately valid orders, the proposal formulated in the Law, Constitution and Justice Committee requires approval of regulations from the relevant Knesset committees, although...

The Federation of Consumer Authority examined the characterization of Israeli consumer behavior in 2019, and the results are fascinating. Only 43% of respondents believe that the conduct of businesses in Israel is fair, while 51% say it is unfair. It should be noted that the perception of fairness of Israeli businesses increases with the income level of the subjects. Another significant figure that emerges from the survey is that 80% of the Israeli public will stop buying from a business that infringes on its workers' rights, and a similar figure has suggested that it would be better to buy...

25% of fathers say they do not exercise their parenting rights because of the corporate culture that does not allow them, according to a survey conducted by the Division for Gender Equality at the Civil Service Commission, on the occasion of Family Day held on Wednesday. Many fathers have stated that they fear the response in the ministry if they start taking advantage of the parenting rights they are entitled to. "I feel that fully utilizing parenting rights will prevent me from performing my job well and therefore choose to take advantage of only some of the rights," says a father who...

The Ministry of Communications responded to the administrative petition filed earlier this month by telecommunication companies Cellcom, Golan Telecom and Expon to the District Court in Jerusalem with a request for an interim order and to freeze the procedure for the 5th generation tender. The companies argued that the firm chose to try a new and complex tender method known as a "combinatorial watch auction" that has never been tried in Israel and may violate the principle of equality and competition and lead to absurd results. The state replied that "the Tender Committee chose the tender...