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A heated debate took place on Monday in the Knesset's Finance Committee, when the Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, presented to the committee members "the most social budget ever approved in the Knesset," while the former chairman of the committee, MK Moshe Gafni, claimed that it was "The most anti-social budget that has ever been here." Lieberman emphasized in his remarks that "interest rates should be taken into account. There may be an increase in interest rates and this is a significant event for us." In the first discussion of the presentation of the state budget in the Finance...

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...

Global glitch strike began on Monday evening on Facebook platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram. Users have reported a glitch that prevents them from accessing networks, apps or websites. After midnight, Facebook and Instagram resumed operations, and around 02:00, the WhatsApp messaging app also returned to function, about six hours after it started. "We apologize to anyone who could not use WhatsApp today," the company tweeted, "WhatsApp is starting to work slowly and carefully again. Thank you for your patience." Earlier it was written in a Facebook account: "To the huge community...

Cyber ​​company Orca Security closed a $ 550 million capital raising round, valued at $ 1.8 billion. This is an extension of a series C round that was announced earlier this year in the amount of $ 210 million. The company has since expanded its round by raising an additional $ 340 million, which has increased the company's value by about 50%. In total, Orca has raised $ 640 million since its inception, $ 605 million of which has been raised in less than a year. The round was led by the Singapore Government Investment Fund Temasek. Which is one of the largest investors in the world,...

About 26% of undergraduate students study computer science, including mathematics and statistics and engineering. This is the fourth year in a row that engineering studies are the most coveted study program in Israel. More than 38,000 students, which is 18.2% of the 208,461 undergraduate students, study engineering. This is according to the report of the Council for Higher Education ahead of the start of the academic year this coming Sunday. The report shows that engineering studies continue to overtake the social sciences, which for years have been considered the largest field of study in...

The number of corona patients who are in a serious condition continues to decline, and their number on Tuesday evening is 489. This is the first time since August 13 that the number of patients is seriously lower than 500. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 197 of the seriously ill patients are connected to respirators. Of the 489 patients who were severe, 363 were not vaccinated at all, 79 received the two vaccine doses but not the booster dose and 33 were also vaccinated in the third dose. In fact, more than 76% of severe patients are not vaccinated, compared with less than 7%...

Microsoft Israel Research and Development announced on Wednesday that it intends to double the number of its employees in the next four years - from about 2,000 to about 4,500. Due to the expected jump in the number of employees, Microsoft has announced that it will open five new development centers in Israel in the coming years. The company will establish a new campus in Tel Aviv that will be spread over 25,000 square meters and will house more than 1,000 employees. A new center in Herzliya will be built with a size of 17,000 square meters that will accommodate 1,000 employees as well...

The shortening of the shifts of interns in hospitals is underway: On Tuesday evening, the Minister of Finance, Avgidor Lieberman, the Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, and the Minister of the Economy, Orna Barbibai, agreed on an initial outline for shortening the shifts from 26 hours to 18 hours (16 plus 2). At this stage only for hospitals in the periphery (10 total) - and excluding professions of surgery. The interns - who do not accept the outline - plan to intensify the struggle and carry out a mass resignation from the hospitals today. "We are continuing our struggle. We will...

An Israeli study, the first of its kind in the world, which included hundreds of thousands of Pfizer vaccines, shows that the chance of developing myocarditis following the vaccine is extremely rare, and even when it is realized, it is a very mild disease, without affecting heart function. The study is published Thursday night in the leading medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine. The study, conducted by the Beilinson Hospital Cardiology Department in collaboration with the Clalit Research Institute, examined the prevalence of myocarditis and its severity after receiving the...

The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 2,064 verified cases of the corona virus. The number of patients in critical condition dropped to 460. 227 patients are in critical condition, 183 of them respiratory. Also, during that day, nine patients died, and the total number of water since the outbreak of the plague rose to 7,885. To date, about 3.7 million people have been vaccinated against corona in Israel in the third dose. During yesterday, about 33,000 people were vaccinated with this dose. The data also show that the coefficient of infection continues to decline and now stands...