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Google acquires the Israeli cyber company Simemplify for an estimated amount of hundreds of millions of dollars. A little while ago Google issued an official announcement about the deal. According to the announcement, Simplify will join the Google Cloud security team, "to help companies deal more successfully with cyber threats." This is Google's largest acquisition in Israel since it acquired Waze for $ 1 billion, and the first time it has acquired a company in the cyber field - which indicates its intention to establish an activity in the field of information security here for the first...

Food giant Osem is not content with raising consumer prices to improve profitability. The company plans to reduce the salaries of the sales force division. This is a division of more than 100 employees and is responsible for sales in the amount of NIS 4 billion. Yesterday morning, the brigade's workers decided to strike a warning strike with the approval of the Histadrut and did not go to work in the field. Chairman of the Trade Division Workers' Committee, Shlomi Aviv, said that "the company wants to cut our sales component by 20%, so we stopped the work. For years we have hired including...

The director-general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, announced on Thursday that from midnight onwards, all countries will be removed from the list of red countries. It is recommended not to fly, "the CEO emphasized," but at the moment there is no point in doing so anymore. " The decision was made following a pre-defined policy, according to which the mechanism of the red states will be suspended in a situation in which the percentage of nationals who entered from abroad falls below 5% of the total morbidity in the country

A proposal that will go up for a vote on Sunday in front of the ministers effectively eliminates the green label in malls, street stores and shopping centers - and will introduce a strict purple label that includes occupancy restriction depending on the store area (excluding food and pharma stores). According to the proposal, stores with an area larger than 100 square meters will be able to admit customers according to a key of 15 square meters per person, and stores smaller than that - 7 square meters per customer or four customers for the entire store, whichever is higher

The Competition Authority approved the transaction for the acquisition of control of Partner by the Gabay, Rodev and Phoenix Groups. This removed another obstacle although expected to complete the transaction. Avi Gabay, Shlomo Rodev, Phoenix, Menora and Mori Arkin buy 27% of the communications company Partner from Hong Kong Hutchison for $ 300 million. The group is now waiting for a permit from the Ministry of Communications to complete the move. The estimates in the capital market are that the group will not have difficulty obtaining the permit from the Ministry of Communications and...

"You should buy fast, even if it's a package of 20 antigen tests, because if you come in another hour there will be no more," the saleswoman at the Good Pharm branch on Florentine Street explained to one of the customers today (Sunday). The Super-Pharm branch, which is 200 meters away, has not been inspected since Thursday. The cashier says they were assured that the inventory would be replenished later in the day, but she does not know exactly when. Since the Ministry of Health announced last week that vaccines exposed to a verified patient will be able to settle for a home corona test to...

The year 2021 culminated in a record mortgage takeover: homebuyers received NIS 116 billion from banks, a sum that skyrocketed demand and apartment prices to unprecedented highs. This is an increase of 149% compared to 2020, which was also a record year in real estate, in which the banks marketed NIS 78.1 billion in mortgages. And a jump of 11% compared to the previous month, November 2021. The total number of new mortgages granted by banks in Israel in November is NIS 10.98 billion, an increase of 2.5% compared to NIS 10.7 billion in October

Corona's isolation has only recently been shortened from ten days to seven, and is now expected to be further shortened: Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz on Sunday evening ordered his office staff to shorten Corona's isolation shortening from seven to five days, but Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has not yet formulated his position. However, there are growing assessments in the health system that the move will eventually be approved, and final discussions on the issue are expected to take place tomorrow and the day after.

The state aid scheme for airlines, which are suffering from a loss of revenue due to the omicron, is finally closed. The government approved the Ministry of Finance and Transportation's proposal to provide increased assistance in the amount of $ 85 million to the three airlines: El Al, Israir and Arkia. This is after according to the outline formulated in November, the assistance to the companies was supposed to amount to only $ 41 million - that is, an increase in the assistance by $ 44 million

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz decided to shorten the isolation to five days with the encouragement of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Following the announcement of the shortening of the isolation to five days, some members of the epidemic treatment team of the Ministry of Health sharply criticized the decision. The reason: Contrary to the decision to shorten the isolation to seven days discussed by the team after data was presented and a vote was taken, Minister Horowitz and senior officials of his ministry including Director General of the Ministry of Health Prof. Nachman Ash and Head of...