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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...

The United States warned on Tuesday against traveling to Israel following the spread of the corona there. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Israel is at the 4th highest level of risk from Corona - and Americans should avoid traveling to it. Along with Israel, 21 other countries were added to the list. The CDC stressed that the recommendation is sweeping for the vaccinated as well - but if it is an important trip, it is better to fly when vaccinated against the virus. The prevailing assessment in Israel is that the coefficient of infection is expected to...

The labor market is expected to immediately face a fundamental change, whereby thousands of workers will be able to get to their jobs even if they have been infected with the corona virus. This is on the condition that their illness is without symptoms and that they will not meet on their way to the workplace and the factory where they are employed by any other worker while they are there. The innovation, which mainly concerns workers in industry, may in fact eliminate the need for many workers in isolation and help workplaces overcome the absence in recent days of many workers, including...

Israel's public debt soared in 2021, in absolute terms, and crossed the NIS 1 trillion mark. However, in the main index for examining Israel's financial strength, the debt-to-GDP ratio in the economy has improved, and it dropped from 71.7% in 2020 to 70.3%. The Accountant General of the Ministry of Finance, Yahli Rotenberg, published today (Wednesday) the preliminary debt data for 2021. They show that the improvement in the debt-to-GDP ratio was recorded mainly due to the increase in GDP in the economy in 2021, in light of the economic recovery. The published figure was determined by the...

More than five years after suspicions of corruption in the purchase of submarines from Germany were first revealed, the government will approve on Sunday at its weekly meeting the establishment of a state commission of inquiry into the affair. The committee, chaired by a judge, will be empowered to investigate the decision-making processes of the political echelon in relation to procurement processes and vessel transactions, as well as the involvement of former security officers and senior officials as intermediaries in large security transactions. The proposal, promoted by Defense...

According to data from the Ministry of Health from this morning (Monday), in recent days 527,233 Israelis have been diagnosed as positive for Corona and have not yet recovered. 187,867 people are in solitary confinement, many of them students - before changing guidelines. Since the outbreak of the plague, 8,447 patients have died in Israel from the complications of the virus - 11 of them yesterday. On Saturday, 20 corona patients died - the highest daily number in the fifth wave. Since the beginning of the month, 196 corona patients have died in Israel. In the last day, 67,198 positive...

The Histadrut provides El Al with additional assistance in the amount of NIS 10 million, through the Histadrut-owned business assistance fund. Avi Edri, the trustee of the Histadrut's a transportation and aviation portfolio, admitted in a conversation with Ynet that this is a rare amount of assistance. He said: "There are factories that turn to aid and we find that they can survive without us - so they do not receive aid, but that is not the case with El Al. If we did not support the company, it would have closed. This is the company that has been hit the hardest

The Knesset's Labor and Welfare Committee approved the understandings reached by the Minister of Finance, Avigdor Lieberman, and the chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Efrat Reitan, who agreed to participate in financing the expenses of the self-employed during the days of isolation. This is an addition to the layout of the isolation days for the self-employed by increasing the daily rate given for an isolation day to NIS 570, an increase of 33% to the original amount of NIS 430, which was based on the tariff set in the Wall Guard operation. The announcement was made to the...

In the last two weeks, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of deaths as a result of corona complications and the number of patients in critical condition. According to the Ministry of Health, in recent days there have been about 40 deaths from corona every day. These data are not updated on the Ministry of Health website, and these are only updated retrospectively - after death certificates are received and confirmation that the main cause of death is corona and not other diseases. By comparison, at the height of the third wave in January last year, the death toll reached 60

The Knesset plenum approved on second and third reading the bill to finance the isolation fee for the self-employed, submitted by Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the request of the self-employed organizations and the chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, MK Efrat Reitan. Twelve MKs supported the proposal without opponents. This is after ministers Lieberman and Yair Lapid and MK Reitan yesterday agreed on the payments for the government's participation in financing the self-employed's expenses during the isolation days