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End to masks in the open space: A year after the directive to wear masks in the public space, on Saturday the director general of the Ministry of Health, Hezi Levy, signed an order that would remove the obligation to wear masks in open spaces from Sunday. ". The Ministry of Health emphasized that in non-open areas a mask should be worn: "We mention that it is important at every exit from the house to be equipped with a mask that will be required in enclosed spaces and to maintain guidelines - mask, social distance and hygiene, for the health of us all." Health Minister Yuli Edelstein...

Hundreds of people demonstrated Saturday night against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption in a number of centers across the country. The demonstrations come against the background of contacts for the formation of a government and Netanyahu's trial, which will resume tomorrow in the Jerusalem District Court. The activists marched from the Knesset toward the official residence of the prime minister. During the demonstration, the chairman of the Movement for Quality of Government, Adv. Eliad Shraga, presented a bill drafted by the movement, which seeks to prevent...

The Central Bureau of Statistics today publishes an amazing statistic regarding the number of vacancies in the economy. According to the CBS, the number of job vacancies was about 112.5 thousand jobs in March, which is the highest estimate observed since the beginning of the survey in 2009. The highest estimate so far was 106.5 in May 2017. The vacancy rate for March is 4.43% compared to the average vacancy rate of 3.59% in 2019 and 2.47% in 2020. There has been an increase in the number of job vacancies in all sectors of the economy surveyed compared to the 2020 average, and the most...

Elbit Systems, managed by Bezalel Machlis, won a $ 1.65 billion contract to build and operate a Greek Air Force flight training center as part of an agreement signed between the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Greek Ministry of Defense. As part of the contract, which will be executed in the next 20 years, the company will provide new M-346 (Lavi) training aircraft and will strengthen the entire training squadron array, consisting of dozens of M-346 and T-6 (Efroni) training aircraft. Elbit Systems will also provide an innovative layered training avionics to be installed on the...

Israel has signed an agreement with Pfizer to purchase 10 million vaccine doses by the end of 2022 - of which about two million vaccines have already been sent to Israel, "at the expense" of the deal signed today. In addition, Israel and Pfizer have agreed on the existence of an option to purchase millions of other vaccine doses, which will be adapted to variants, if necessary. The deal signed today with Pfizer and the one that will soon be signed with Moderna, includes a 50% lower number of vaccines compared to the original deal presented by the Ministry of Health and the Prime Minister....

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit did call on the High Court to reject the petition of the Movement for Quality of Government, which demanded the declaration of the prime minister's imprisonment due to his criminal trial, but the saga of the imprisonment is just beginning. , Which may lead to imprisonment. The adviser pointed to two main parameters that could lead to Netanyahu's imprisonment. The first parameter: "functional" fortification resulting from his involvement in the trial against him. "The possibility cannot be ruled out categorically that in exceptional concrete...

March data on new mortgages published today (Monday) by the Bank of Israel were another illustration of how hot the residential real estate market is. Amounted to NIS 22.3 billion - an increase of about 7% compared to the corresponding quarter in 2020. It is one of the strongest quarters in the mortgage market ever in the country. In addition, the volume of mortgages taken in the first quarter of 2021 is 44% higher than the rate of mortgages taken in the corresponding quarter in 2019

The price of the economic corona: The government debt has reached almost a trillion shekels. In 2020, government debt increased by about 20% and stood at NIS 984 billion each, compared to NIS 823 billion last year. The government deficit more than tripled during 2020 and has reached unprecedented proportions since the 1980s. Add to this the dramatic drop in tax revenues recorded at the beginning of the crisis and the ongoing budget, it will be possible to understand the magnitude of the event that took place in the offices of the Accountant General Unit, responsible for providing funding...

An anti-aircraft missile fired from Syria at Israel fell overnight in the Negev, after an attack attributed to Israel. An air defense system was activated against Syrian anti-aircraft fire, and in response the Air Force attacked the battery from which the missile was fired. In Syrian space. According to reports in Syria, the air force attacked several targets in the Damascus area shortly after 01:30 tonight, and then several surface-to-air missiles were fired, one of which fell in the south of the country. An IDF spokesman said that "the missile, apparently an SA5 model, which reaches a...

According to updated data from the Ministry of Health published this morning, no deaths were recorded on Thursday as a result of complications of the corona virus in Israel. This is the first time since June 29, 2020, between the first wave of morbidity and the second wave. A total of 6,346 corona patients died in Israel from the outbreak of the plague. The optimistic figure joins the sharp decline in the number of people in critical condition in hospitals, which this morning stands at 160 compared to more than 1,200 at the height of the third outbreak of the corona plague. In addition,...