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The number of corona patients in a serious condition continues to decline and on Wednesday evening their number is 343. For comparison, exactly one month ago the number of critically ill patients was 708. This is a decrease of more than 50%. Of the severe patients - 155 are connected to respirators. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 256 of the critically ill patients are not vaccinated at all, 23 are vaccinated without validity - that is, half a year or more has passed since they received the second vaccine dose and 54 are defined as vaccinated. For some critically ill patients,...

The Knesset's Economics Committee has approved the food chapter in the import reform, which will shorten the import processes of sensitive food and is supposed to increase competition. According to estimates by the Ministry of Finance, the reform will save consumers about NIS 3 billion a year. This is a chapter from the import reform that the government sought to approve within the framework of the Arrangements Law. The purpose of the reform is to adjust the regulation on imports in Israel to the European one, thus increasing competition and lowering prices. The food chapter is intended to...

The Ministry of Environmental Protection's Environmental Impact Index for 2019, published for the ninth year, provides the rating of the environmental impact of companies and enterprises that are publicly and government-owned. The index provides the public with comparative and simple information on the performance and environmental risks of public companies with large environmental impact and the factories they own. The index examines in depth the environmental risk of 49 public companies, 124 large industrial plants and about 700 gas stations, and its methodology is based on the...

The Prime Minister, the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Innovation agreed on a basket of benefits for the advancement of the Israeli high-tech industry. The government will promote three legislative amendments designed to strengthen and promote Israeli high-tech as a key engine of growth in the economy. The Ministry of Finance has issued a memorandum of law for public comments that includes three legislative amendments: 1. "Angel Law": granting a tax credit to an investor in a start-up company. This is first and foremost in order to encourage first-round investments ("pre seed"...

The Knesset's Finance Committee approved the law to reduce gender gaps in the labor market and raise the retirement age for women. Under the bill, the retirement age for women from age 62 to age 65 will be raised, over 11 years. The committee has approved a number of tools to make it easier for women to integrate into the labor market or reduce harm. The total cost will amount to about NIS 1 billion. The following are the various measures set forth in the law that will enter into force in January 2022 and were approved by the committee and the Knesset members who dealt with the issue, in...

324 Israelis were diagnosed yesterday (Saturday) as positive for Corona - the lowest daily number diagnosed since July 10. By comparison, last Saturday 740 positive for the virus were diagnosed and two weeks ago 1,039. The coefficient of infection decreased slightly and stands at 0.73. According to data from the Ministry of Health, about 33,500 corona tests were performed yesterday and the positive rate is 0.98%. This is the first time since July 10 that the positive rate is less than 1%. It should be emphasized that the low number of tests is also due to a sharp decline in the demand for...

Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced today that "immediately after the budget is approved, we are going to launch a large amount of 26 projects in the field of infrastructure, transportation, water, and energy amounting to NIS 110 billion, not including the metro. About NIS 50 billion will be funded by the private market (PPP). - SG). "If we released the first PPP project 20 years ago, now we will release NIS 50 billion in projects here for the private sector - this should bring further impetus to the Israeli economy, which will allow the economy to grow, and bring more employment

The average mortgage amount decreased in September by about 3% compared to August to NIS 914,000. This is according to data from the mortgage market published by the Bank of Israel. This is the second month in a row that the average loan for the purchase of an apartment has decreased, after the peak recorded in July and stood at NIS 954.2 thousand. However, the average mortgage amount in September 2021 was 19.7% higher than in September 2020, when it stood at NIS 763,000

The government is considering advancing legislation that would make it possible to require corona tests, according to which if a person does not perform the test as required, he will be charged with a criminal offense that will be enforced by a fine - according to a government law memorandum distributed tonight (Monday) by the Ministry of Health. This is a very unusual proposal, which states that "the possibility" of advancing the legislation is being considered to "address a situation of concern about the outbreak of a dangerous strain of the corona virus, such as a vaccine that is less...