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The night closure on Purim took effect tonight (Thursday) at 20:30 and will last until 05:00. Among other things, it will be forbidden during these hours to leave the house for a distance of more than 1,000 meters and stay in other houses. Public transportation will also be reduced, and as always in Israel, the outline for restrictions on lines was published at the last minute. The night closure will also apply on Friday and Saturday, but not on Sunday - then Shoshan Purim will be celebrated in Jerusalem. The government has approved the restrictions for fear that as last year mass...

Thousands of people celebrated from Saturday afternoon at the flea market in Jaffa - but the police arrived to disperse them only after about three hours. The partygoers, most of them in costumes, crowded the narrow alleys of the market, taking drinks and food they had taken at takeaways. Inside the crowd there were also spontaneous parties with music heard from the businesses, with the partygoers dancing - almost no one kept their distance or put on a mask. Later, the celebrations in the market resumed on another street. The police claimed that police officers from the Jaffa station had...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Galant announced last night (Sunday) that schooling will continue in July, but did not present a clear outline for this. The students are outraged and the student council said: "We have been stuck in the same place for almost a year and the solution in your opinion is to extend this year further? Parents and teachers were left confused, wondering if it was an election announcement, or a decision the system could stand. The guiding principle in the outline that should be formulated by the Ministry of Education and presented...

The reform of the port of Ashdod is underway: after almost eight years of negotiations, an agreement was officially signed tonight between the state, the management of the port of Ashdod and the workers. The agreement ensures substantial efficiency in all sectors and managerial flexibility that will allow the port to compete with the private ports currently being established. At the same time, the remaining employees received a variety of benefits; Among other things, 10 years of protection against collective redundancies will be given to second-generation non-founding employees; A...

2,393 corona patients have died in Israel since the beginning of the year - 1,459 of them in January and 934 in February. There are more than 40 deaths every day. It should be emphasized that the data for the month ended yesterday (Sunday) are not final, as late data on deaths are still coming to the Ministry of Health. There is no doubt that the extensive vaccination campaign is the significant factor in the decrease in the number of deaths from corona in Israel. An analysis of data from the Ministry of Health shows that in the first half of last month, an average of 40 patients died...

The average wage in 2020 was NIS 11,538, an increase of 7% compared to 2019, according to CBS data published today (Thursday). The number of jobs per employee was 3.369 million - a decrease of 10% compared to the past year. Were recorded in the hospitality and food services industry with a decrease of 41% in the number of employee jobs and in the arts, entertainment and leisure industry in which there was a decrease of 35.7% in the number of employee jobs. Since 2012, the average wage in the economy has increased by 1.7% -3.6% compared to the previous year, but due to the corona crisis,...

Handwashing hygiene stations developed by Israel Development have been set up in Bangalore and Podochary districts in India with the aim of guiding and encouraging local residents, children and adults, to wash their hands properly and effectively and contribute to reducing morbidity from infectious diseases. The stations were self-funded by the startup Soapy Care, which set itself a policy of providing washing stations in India and Africa with a tithe of ten sales in Israel and around the world. The project is in collaboration with the Swasti and Sanitation First organizations that promote...

The government approves the third-beat regulations of the reliefs that will take effect on Sunday. Studies in grades 7-10 will be renewed in educational institutions in the green, yellow and orange cities. Institutions of higher education will also be opened for the vaccinated and recovering. The ministers also approve a restriction on gatherings in banquet halls, which will allow up to 50% of the hall to occupy no more than 300 people. Entrance to the halls will only be allowed for green card holders, except for 5% of the event participants, who will be able to enter by presenting the...

Only NIS 16 million will be allocated at this stage for the benefit of performing professional training and placing workers in required professions in the industry and construction industries with government funding. In the past, there have been statements from senior members of the economy that vocational training will need to be allocated hundreds of millions of shekels and even more, in order to return the hundreds of thousands of unemployed to work after the severe corona crisis. With the significant reopening of the economy after the third closure, tens of thousands of workers are...

Bank Leumi ended 2020 with a net profit of NIS 2.1 billion, compared with NIS 3.5 billion in the corresponding period in 2019 - a decrease of 40%. The decrease in profit is mainly due to the significant increase in expenses for credit losses, mainly in the group provision, and a decrease in non-interest financing income, which in 2019 also included income from the sale of Leumi Card, in the amount of NIS 314 million. The return on equity for 2020 amounted to 5.7%, compared with a return of 9.8% in 2019 (9.2% excluding the effect of the sale of Leumi Card in 2019), mainly due to the...