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The Corona Cabinet has decided to lift restrictions on business activities on weekends and stays in public playgrounds. These decisions are subject to government approval, and a vote will be taken during the day. It was also decided to increase involvement in the orange and red cities, and it was decided to promote an outline for the opening of the skies on August 16. The focus of the discussion was a confrontation between the prime minister's approach, which pushed for a closure call, For that. The forum convened yesterday to discuss the possibility of new concessions or restrictions on...

Senior executives from various industries claim that in the last month the trend has intensified in which people refuse to return from unpaid leave or start new jobs, leading to a shortage of employees. The blame, they say, lies in promising the government to pay unemployment benefits by mid-2021 or until the unemployment rate in the economy falls below 10%. Rami Levy, owner of Rami Levy Sycamore Marketing says that "long-term unemployment benefits are the worst thing the government could have done." He said, "The state had to give money to employers so that they would pay it to workers,...

The Ministry of Health updated that 10,052 people were diagnosed with the Corona virus last week. The figure is 14.95% lower than the week before, when 11,820 people were diagnosed. 1,674 were diagnosed in the past day, bringing the number of infected patients in Israel to 80,431. Yesterday, results were obtained for 28,382 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 6.1%. The test data and their results are not final and may change in subsequent updates from the Ministry of Health. The number of active patients is 24,577. 776 patients are hospitalized in the hospitals, of...

Significant increase in the number of respirators: According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of corona patients in hospitals increased by 12 in half a day and reached 118, the most since the end of April, at the height of the first wave. The peak number of respirators was on April 13, when 137 corona patients who were connected to respirators were hospitalized in hospitals across the country. This is a sharp jump in the number of respirators in recent weeks. According to the data on July 1 there were 24 respirators, on August 1 the number jumped to 94 and this morning it...

Cultural performances will resume immediately in open spaces. The complexes will be divided into capsules of up to 20 people in each group. Each performance will require prior approval from the Ministry of Health. This is the outline that was agreed upon on Sunday evening and presented at the end of a meeting of representatives of the cultural industry with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Finance Israel Katz, Minister of Culture and Sports Hili Trooper and Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein. Simultaneously with this meeting, several hundred people from the cultural industry...

The Medical Federation announced on Sunday evening a labor dispute that will apply to the entire public health system in Israel. The dispute was declared as a result of the non-allocation of standards required to meet the workload during the Corona period and due to the Finance Ministry's decision to impose on hospitals part of the funding of additional standards, which is expected to deepen existing deficits and require layoffs. Finance Minister Israel Katz and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein will hold a meeting tomorrow with representatives of the Medical Federation in order to regulate...

The government is trying to fight the implications of the Corona crisis. it was reported this morning that the Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, and the Minister of Economy and Industry, Amir Peretz, agreed on a plan to encourage investment and employment in the manufacturing and high-tech industries in the amount of NIS 1.1 billion. Manufacturers Association. The program includes budgets to encourage investment, R&D and innovation as well as opening markets with an emphasis on enterprises affected by the crisis and retaining a significant proportion of their workers, a budget for...

There is no real danger to financial stability in Israel, but the intensity of the risk to financial stability in the first half of the year was assessed as medium-high. This emerges from the Financial Stability Report of the Bank of Israel's Financial Division, published on Tuesday. This is a rare assessment of its kind in Israel. The report reveals that Israel is below average among the countries that have provided support to the economy, both in grants to citizens and assistance to the self-employed and companies, and in providing guarantees for loans and opening special funds for...

Surprising recovery in the housing market: A survey by the Chief Economist of the Ministry of Finance shows that in June there was a record sale of apartments since the outbreak of the crisis. The increase was also recorded compared to June last year. Total transactions last June amounted to 10,900 - an increase of 16% compared to June last year. After deducting price-per-tenant sales, 9,100 transactions were recorded in the free market - an increase of 11% compared to the corresponding period. 4,200 new apartments were sold in June, the highest monthly number since the beginning of the...

The Deputy State Attorney and the prosecutor in the Netanyahu cases, Liat Ben-Ari, was recently summoned for questioning together with her husband Aviv Shviki, on suspicion of construction offenses in a property registered in their name in Rosh HaAyin. According to the municipal inspectorate, Ben-Ari is suspected of splitting the apartment she owns into two housing units without a permit, which could be considered a criminal offense. The Ministry of Justice denied Ben-Ari's summons to a hearing, but the Rosh HaAyin municipality confirmed the details to Haaretz. This is a hearing before an...