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Severe criticism of Israel from Facebook's parent company: Meta tonight published an extensive report on a months-long investigation conducted by the company, and mapped the activities of spy and surveillance companies on its platform. Of seven companies starring in the report, five are Israeli or have ties to Israel. In all, the seven companies in the report attacked about 50,000 people in 100 countries, including journalists, human rights activists, and opponents of the regime. Meta announced that it had blocked the companies on its platforms. Of the seven companies starring in the...

The Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, is promoting legislation that will, for the first time in Israel, lead to regulation of virtual currencies. The goal is to regulate the field and fight black capital and tax evasion, which are currently estimated at hundreds of millions of shekels. It is estimated that the regulation of the field will bring billions of shekels a year into the state coffers in the future. The Ministry of Finance held a special meeting on the subject in the Minister's Office with the participation of senior officials from the capital market, the Anti-Money...

Chip giant Intel has announced that it has decided to provide its employees around the world, and also in Israel, with benefits worth more than $ 2 billion, half of which will be reflected in benefits in the salaries of the company's employees and more than $ 1.4 billion will be in options granted to employees. Most of the benefits are intended for existing company employees and a small portion of it is intended for new employees. The company currently employs about 110,000 employees worldwide, of which about 14,000 in Israel. If the payment is divided equally, which is unlikely to happen,...

The discussion that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened on Sunday evening with senior Ministry of Health officials and some ministers ended without decisions. Ministers present at the hearing said there was no point in imposing restrictions on the current state of the epidemic, and especially not on gathering restrictions - which the ministers said would "put the economy in a spin". The Prime Minister's Office said that further consultations will be held later today in order to formulate the continuation of the action plan for the treatment of Omicron, which will be submitted for...

Intel has terminated business relations with the Israeli offensive cyber company NSO, following the latter's entry into the US blacklist - according to a report in the Financial Times. NSO reportedly uses equipment it purchases from a number of US vendors - such as Dell servers, Intel hardware and Cisco routers, and uses computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system. As you may recall, in early November, the US Department of Commerce announced that NSO, along with Candiro, would be blacklisted by entities acting against the national interest of the United States. This means that...

Pfizer has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for emergency use the drug it developed for Corona. Upon receipt of the approval, the new drug will be available to tens of millions of Americans, vaccinated and unvaccinated, if infected with the virus. The FDA approved the administration of the drug subject to obtaining a doctor's prescription for diagnosed patients, as long as no more than five days had elapsed from the onset of the first symptoms. According to Pfizer, when the pill was given within three days of the onset of symptoms, the risk of...

The team of experts in the treatment of epidemics in the Ministry of Health has recommended a fourth vaccine against Corona for adults over the age of 60 and for medical staff. The recommendation is subject to the approval of the Director-General of the Ministry of Health and at this stage, it appears that the fourth vaccine will be possible, but probably not necessarily recommended. The Corona Virus Information Center said: "Epidemic treatment team members recommend giving a fourth dose to people aged 60 and over and immunocompromised, provided four months have passed from the third dose;...

The rate of academics among women in management positions is higher than the corresponding figure for male managers. The same is true of seniority at work and experience. Managers also declare a higher level of commitment to the workplace from managers, and higher prices they pay on the family front - according to regular surveys conducted by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Even when the number of weekly working hours is taken into account, managers earn about 30% more than managers on a monthly basis. A new study, based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, shows that after...

An up-to-date forecast published by the Ministry of Economy and Industry predicts an all-time record in Israeli exports in 2021, and may amount to at least $ 135 billion - an increase of 18.5% compared to the volume of exports from Israel in 2020. Last year, exports from Israel totaled $ 114 billion, a decrease of 3% compared to the volume of exports from it in 2019. The forecast is based on Israel's export data for the first three quarters of the year. The Ministry of Economy's Foreign Trade Administration said today that the growing trend in exports, which has been evident since the...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said this morning in an interview on the "This Morning" program on Kan B that "we are just before the contagion storm - on a scale we have not seen in Israel." Bennett added that according to the isolation policy that is expected to be adopted by the government, vaccinated people will not be required for isolation - even if they are exposed to a verified patient. The Prime Minister stressed that the data on the hospitalization of children in the world due to the spread of the omicron are on the rise and called on parents to vaccinate their children. The...