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The outline that is expected to prevent isolation for students in schools in green localities will only take effect on Tuesday or Wednesday. This is despite the fact that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Ministry of Health claimed that the pilot would begin tomorrow. The reason why the outline is expected to start only later this week - the tests required to maintain the outline have not yet reached the authorities and school principals. In order to maintain the outline, which is an extension of the "Green Class" pilot, about 920,000 antigen test kits are required for about 410,000...

There was a significant increase in 2020 in the number of working days lost to the Israeli economy as a result of strikes - 391,000 working days lost compared to only 110,000 working days lost in 2019. However, the number of strikes in the economy decreased last year, because strikes in 2020 were much longer, on average. New data published by the Labor Relations Unit in the Ministry of Economy shows that in 2020, which was entirely in the shadow of the Corona plague, there were "only" 31 strikes in Israel compared to 45 strikes in 2019

1,023 Israelis were diagnosed yesterday as positive for Corona. This is the lowest number of verified since July 24. A total of 52,000 tests were performed and the positive rate was 1.99%. This is the first time since the end of July that the verified rate has been below 2%. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 674 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 463 of them in critical condition. This is a number similar to what it was last night. 186 of the critically ill patients are connected to respirators

After a year and a half of partial distance learning, the academic year opened on Sunday and hundreds of thousands of students will fill the campuses and study in classrooms. The studies will take place under the rules of the "green character". Thus, higher education institutions have announced that most of the learning will take place on campuses, but they intend to incorporate distance learning on a limited scale as well. 350,000 students are expected to study in the current academic year at 59 institutions of higher learning. This is an increase of four percent compared to the previous...

Green lable regulations confuse the public. The courts have recently ruled that the requirement to fulfill the obligations of the green lable: that is, to be vaccinated or provide a negative test result, to enter the workplace is a reasonable requirement. However, despite the clear position of the courts and also of the legal advice to the government businesses that operated then according to the green lable interpreted the regulations each in a different way. Some explicitly stated that not all of their employees were vaccinated, and others made it clear that only vaccinated workers or...

After eight years of parking, Israel is back on the map with the Nobel Prize - but as in the previous time, this time too it is a "semi-Israeli" win: Prof. Josh Angrist from MIT, an Israeli-American, became the 13th Israeli to win the most prestigious award , Even though he dropped out of his first year as a graduate student at the Hebrew University. The announcement in Stockholm of Prof. Angrist's win joins the winning of 12 other Israelis. So far, the prize is awarded annually to selected personalities for their contribution to science, literature, and humanity as a whole, the author SY...

The deficit in September continued to decline in September and amounted to NIS 6 billion. In the last 12 months, the deficit has fallen to 7.4% of GDP. State revenues since the beginning of the year amounted to NIS 295 billion, while state expenditures amounted to NIS 346.7 billion. The deficit shrank mainly due to the sharp 26% increase in state revenues in the first three quarters of the year. State revenues from the beginning of 2021 on taxes have jumped by 19.7%, with the sharpest increase (26.3%) recorded in direct taxes. At the same time, "other income" was recorded for the state,...

Industrial plants in Israel are in trouble. They are short of workers and have great difficulty recruiting skilled workers. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel's industry lacks 13,700 workers. The problem of shortage of workers in the industry is not new but increased during the Corona. Before the crisis, there was a shortage of 10,000 workers, which increased to almost 14,000. Many of the positions in the industry, at least a quarter of the missing workers, are positions on production lines, near furnaces or in the field of concrete castings. In these positions it is...

In 2020, the profits of government companies in Israel amounted to NIS 2.9 billion - compared with NIS 4 billion in 2019; This is due to losses amounting to NIS 643 million in the Israel Post attributed to the corona year, and expenses of more than NIS 950 million in respect of retirement benefits for employees at the Haifa Post and Port prior to their privatization. The operating profit data make it possible to examine the decrease in the companies 'profitability due to the corona, less the one-time events, and these data indicate a decrease of about NIS 350 million in the companies'...

The cyber ransom event in Hillel-Yaffe hospital is probably the most serious cyber event in the Israeli health system to date.The teams of cyber experts continue to work on rehabilitating the systems and returning to activity quickly. So far it is known that a group of hackers is relatively new, it is responsible for the attack and it is probably also valid for a hospital in the USA. The investigation is still in progress. At this point, both the Ministry of Health and the cyber array have issued preliminary guidelines to other medical institutions. Prof. Nachman Ash, Director General of...