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Histadrut Chairman Arnon Ben David and Chairman of the Business Sector Dubi Amitai urgently approached Prime Minister Netanyahu with a demand for a state guarantee and a loan to El Al, just before the company announces cessation of activity following its financial situation. The letter comes a day after he asked the stock exchange to announce that Treasury officials told the company orally that the requested aid package would not be approved at this time. El Al noted that "the professional team stated that it is within the authority of the political echelon to make a different decision

On Tuesday, the Corona Commission chaired by MK Ofer Shelah submitted its report on its serious interim conclusions. Among other things, the committee determined that there were mental and organizational failures in decision making, poor review policy, incorrect closure. The committee was impressed that a significant portion of the policy was formulated according to the missing system. They stated in the report that "it is difficult to know whether the resistance to conducting mass tests was due to a regular theory or to the simple fact that there were simply no test kits in sufficient or...

The curfew imposed in the country for the holiday will be valid until 7 am on Thursday. Traffic is also prohibited within the cities, and food is prohibited. By Friday, at 6 a.m., crossing between towns would be prohibited, and police set up dozens of roadblocks to enforce traffic restrictions. These restrictions do not apply to communities where most of their residents are not Jewish. The imposition of Passover on the nuclear family led to the creativity of residents across the country to co-exist. Families did not settle for online order and found ways to celebrate with neighbors...

Airlines around the world are close to collapse due to almost total stoppage of flights around the world. On Tuesday, passenger traffic in the United States plunged 95%. About one hundred and thirty thousand passengers flew, a volume similar to the 1960s passenger movement. The situation in Israel is similar too. EL AL is close to collapse and the Finance Ministry has no willingness to assist the company as it requires. The Treasury rejected a request for aid of NIS 700 million. In spite of the controversy, El Al conducts Israeli rescue flights from around the world and supplies medical...

A woman who has recovered from the corona virus has donated plasma, the blood component in which the antibodies to the corona virus are found, to save the life of a 29-year-old corona patient who is in serious condition. MDA calls Corona patients who have recovered from donating plasma through a simple procedure after at least 14 days of complete recovery. A call for a plasma donation was received yesterday at Magen David Adom's blood services. Found a donor - a resident of Jerusalem who recovered from the virus. MDA then began a Bezeq operation to bring an ambulance to the blood services...

Government legal advisor Avihai Mandelblit responded Saturday to claims that seclusion from overseas has been avoided due to legal bureaucracy: "The adviser has not delayed or prevented the government from acting according to the needs, as presented, regarding the isolation of those returning to the country from abroad. In false and false briefing. " The court statement said on April 2, 2020, the government approved an amendment to the Emergency Regulations (New Corona Virus) (isolation rather than state isolation), 1920, authorizing the Ministry of Health to order that every person...

Israeli company Simbionix, the simulator division of 3D Systems Corporation, which specializes in the development of manufacturing of medical simulators, including ultra-sound, has harnessed its capabilities to help fight COVID-19. Simbionix has developed a unique training module for diagnosing COVID-19 with a lung pulmonary. Developed in collaboration with medical teams across the globe and Israel, including Dr. Lior Fuchs, member of Ben Gurion University’s Faculty of Health Sciences and senior physician at the Intensive Internal Care Unit at the Soroka University Medical Center, and Dr....

After about a year and a half of an unprecedented crisis and three election campaigns, Israel will soon have a government: The Likud and Blue Blue on Monday signed an agreement to form a rotating government that should include 32 ministers - the largest ever. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will remain in office for a year and a half, followed by his replacement for another one and a half years. The Labor Party will also join. Sources on her right say: "Netanyahu shows us the way out." The main summaries on how the government will be conducted: * The government will be equal and so will...

68% of Jewish workers are confident that they will return to work at the end of the Corona crisis, compared to 42% among Arab workers, according to a survey by the Israeli Democracy Institute. The survey was conducted the week before Passover, between March 29 and April 2, among a representative sample of the working population in Israel. The survey was initiated, drafted and analyzed by the Center for Governance and Economics at the Israeli Institute of Democracy, assisted and methodologically supervised by the Guttman Center for Public Opinion and Policy Studies, when field sampling was...

The government approved Wednesday a resolution on the operation of fireworks and laser shows in preparation for the Independence Day to be held this year under a general closure, in an attempt to prevent the wave of infection in Corona. According to the decision, in a local authority with more than 20,000 residents, two fireworks operating centers will be operated, with maximum dispersal of the operating sites in the authority, to prevent congregation. In addition, the authorities must, in every possible way, inform the residents of the prohibition on reaching the operating centers as well...