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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced today (Wednesday) that the obligation to wear masks indoors will be abolished on Saturday evening, April 23, starting at 8 p.m. However, it will still be mandatory to wear masks in places with a high potential for infection such as hospitals, nursing homes, and flights. Even a person who is on the road to isolation will need to wear a mask. According to Bennett and Horowitz, the abolition of the obligation to wear masks will be possible due to the reduction in morbidity in Corona. In recent days, an average of...

The Lod District Court sentenced former Kfar Saba mayor Yehuda Ben-Hamo to 24 months in prison, who was convicted last October of theft by a public official, receiving anything fraudulently under aggravated circumstances, and fraud and breach of trust. The days of his son-in-law's detention will be deducted from the prison sentence, which he will begin serving on June 19. He was also fined NIS 200,000. The court emphasized in its decision that "this is not a one-time stumble - the goal was to make money. Ben Hamo's part in a major case is the perpetrator of the offenses." The sentence was...

The Israeli astronaut and businessman Eitan Steva, along with members of the AX-1 mission team Dragon, landed on Earth off the coast of Florida. The exciting moment of landing was preceded by a number of stages, when the process of disconnection from the International Space Station began at 03:55 (Israel time). Steva has been in space since April 8, completing a total of 17 days in space, 16 of them at the International Space Station. Just before entering the atmosphere, the spacecraft's crew compartment separated from the service cell (which includes the solar panels) and activated its...

The Ministry of Education will abolish the matriculation exams in history, literature, citizenship and the Bible, and they will be replaced by internal assignments and multidisciplinary work. Under the new program, schools will be allowed to choose the teaching method of the four subjects '. "We decided on the change to give students a chance to stop memorizing, and really get interested," Education Minister Shasha-Bitton said at a news conference. Regarding the teachers 'union's opposition to the new program, the Minister of Education replied that the teachers' terms of employment would...

Holocaust Martyrs 'and Heroes' Remembrance Day will begin tonight at 8 p.m., at the state rally at Yad Vashem. The main theme this year is "Trails to Doom - The Deportation of Jews during the Holocaust". Data from the National Insurance Institute show that there are slightly more than one hundred and sixty-one thousand survivors of the Holocaust in Israel - almost a third of whom receive a supplement to their income for a "senior citizen" pension. 161,400 Holocaust survivors and victims of antisemitic harassment during the Holocaust live in Israel - according to data published today...

The report of the Adva Center, the center for social democratic policy, shows a surge in socio-economic disparities in the last two years: the education system does not provide solutions for the most vulnerable populations, the accessibility of the weaker sections to health is harmed and significant disparities in the housing market. On the occasion of just over two years since the Corona crisis, the Adva Center publishes its annual report, entitled "The Plague of Inequality Continues." "The corona plague has not yet passed from the world, even though it has been pushed to the margins of...

The start-up company AVO, which operates a grocery and consumer goods delivery service, is laying off about 500 of its 750 employees worldwide - about two-thirds of its workforce. In Israel, the company employed about 500 employees, of whom about 350 will be fired. In addition, the company completely stopped all shipping activities for private consumers, which was aimed at residential buildings and included about 1,000 buildings in Israel in cities such as Petah Tikva, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv and Ashdod. Now the company will focus only on activities with businesses - that is, deliveries to...

The average mortgage amount reached a peak of NIS 975,000 in March - another step up in mortgage activity, which reflects the increase in apartment prices and the leverage of bank customers, in light of the rise in apartment prices. This, is without a corresponding increase in the equity of apartment buyers. Investors finance the increase in total mortgages by increasing repayments and increasing the average duration of the mortgage repayment. Data from the Bank of Israel show that 13,780 mortgages were taken out in March - an increase of 15.5% compared with February, which mainly reflects...

Innoviz from Rosh HaAyin has been chosen to be the official and direct supplier of LIDAR sensors to one of the largest automotive groups in the world. This is a group that holds a share of more than 10% of the global car market and sells millions of cars a year. The deal is worth $ 4 billion. This is the explanation for the surprising jump of its share by 10% on Friday on the Nasdaq stock exchange, a day when most of the shares actually fell. Sales under the current agreement are expected to be spread over eight years and will begin in three years, after the completion of the joint...

Communications Minister Yoaz Handel and the head of the national cyber network, Gabi Portnoy, announced in a joint statement to the media, a series of measures that will require communications companies to prepare and implement cyber defense plans that will first include an orderly and unified system that will strengthen defense levels and actively prepare for cyber attacks. The decision was made after a hearing last August in the Ministry of Communications, according to which the licenses of the communications companies will be amended and provisions and a number of milestones will be set...