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Data released by the Ministry of Health shows that yesterday 1,430 people were diagnosed as positive for Corona. Of the approximately 87,000 corona tests conducted yesterday - 1.66% were interpreted as positive. From midnight on Friday until the end of Shabbat, another 670 Corona carriers were diagnosed in Israel. Over the weekend there was an increase in the number of critically ill patients, and it now stands at 89, of which 18 are connected to respirators. Prof. Eran Segal, component of the Weizmann Institute's corona prediction model, who revealed some of the morbidity data as early as...

Disabled people's organizations have renewed their protest for rights and budgets and are demonstrating in a variety of centers across the country. According to the organizations, the protest is renewed because the government and the Ministry of Finance are not implementing the Disability Benefit Increase Act passed in February 2018, because no state budget has been passed for about two years. The demonstrators are expected to block major roads and demonstrate in front of government ministries. A statement issued by the disabled people's organizations stated that "the demonstrations will...

The deficit in the state budget will amount to 4.1% in 2022, double the target set by the government before the corona crisis, which stood at 2%. Without government spending on the corona, the deficit would amount to only 3.7%. This summer the budget deficit is still 7% and therefore it is already a huge improvement in the finance forecast that will be presented to the government this coming Sunday. Also, growth this year will stand at 5.1% and in 2022 at 4.7%. This is according to data from the "numerator" published by the Ministry of Finance, which includes all the expenses and revenues...

The Israeli payment company Pioneer (Payoneer) was fined $ 1.4 million by the US Treasury Department for violating 2,260 different sanctions in a large number of countries, including Iran and Syria. Other countries include Ukraine, Sudan and violations of sanctions against individuals who are defined as barriers to money transfers by US authorities. According to the Ministry of Finance report between 2018-2013, Pioneer processed 2,241 payments to entities located in the Crimea, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as 19 violations of sanctions by individuals who are blocked by the US...

The Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, has decided to increase the income supplement for seniors. The benefit will increase by almost NIS 500 per person. The Ministry of Finance says that the move means that exercising the rights to receive income supplementation will allow the elderly to receive income above the poverty line. Income supplement is paid to adults whose income is low, usually without a pension, and who are mainly based on an old-age pension. The average benefit today is NIS 3,230 per person per month, and will now increase to at least NIS 3,710 per month. This amount is...

The monthly review of the chief economist at the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg, published, reveals unsurprising data for May, when there was another increase in the purchase of apartments throughout Israel. In May, 12.5 thousand apartments were purchased, an increase of 40% compared to May 2019 and an increase of 15% compared to last April. Comparing the level of transactions in the free market last May to its counterparts in the last twenty years, it is found that this is the second highest level, and is only ahead of the level of sales in May 2013. In the market segment of new...

Israel will end 2021 with a deficit of 6.8%, and 2022 with a deficit of 3.9%. After that, the reduced outline of the deficit will continue until 2026, when it will stand at 1.5%, according to the draft decision of the state budget, which the Ministry of Finance submitted to government members this morning. Towards the approval of the budget: The Ministry of Finance distributed to the government ministers the main points of the state budget, which includes the budget framework and the new deficit ceiling, along with the distribution of the budget according to government ministries and the...

Friday morning, President Yitzhak Herzog and his wife Michal received the third vaccine against Corona virus. "This is a very important step for the sake of social solidarity in the State of Israel," said President Herzog at the opening of the campaign to receive the complementary dose at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer. "We are launching, we are launching a vaccination campaign to protect the adults in the State of Israel," said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who accompanied the Herzog couple. "From today there is a new mitzvah - Hassan your father and mother for the sake of prolonging...

The government is expected to discuss the budget bill tomorrow and it will approve it. This is the first time that the Israeli government has approved a budget in the last three years. A political majority for a budget is guaranteed after 17 government ministers pledged to support it. The ministers demand budget increases of NIS 12-14 billion a year, they will criticize various items, the discussion will continue until late at night until Monday morning, but in the end the budget must be approved by the government. It was initially planned to continue the budget discussions on Thursday,...

The increase in the number of corona patients in a difficult situation continues: data from the Ministry of Health show that 201 critically ill patients are hospitalized tonight (Saturday) in hospitals across the country, compared with 168 in the update before Shabbat. This is the highest number of serious patients since mid-April. There has also been an increase in the number of respirators and their number now stands at 31. Data from the Ministry of Health show that yesterday 2,435 positive for the virus were diagnosed in Israel and today another 1,589 were diagnosed. That means over the...