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The decision to facilitate the return of vaccinated people from abroad and the abolition of the obligation to go into isolation for a week has jumped the number of bookings of Israeli and international airlines. Companies report an increase of tens and even hundreds of percent in ticket purchases. And in airlines. Earlier this week, Corona projector Prof. Salman Zarka announced a change in the foreign policy of isolation and granting an exemption from isolation for the vaccinated in the third dose back from orange countries that make up most of the countries of the world. For a negative...

The state budget for 2021 and 2022 was approved in the first reading in the Knesset plenum: Three and a half years after the last budget was approved on March 15, 2018, on Thursday evening the Knesset plenum approved in the first reading the biennial state budget. 59 Knesset members voted in favor of the budget. 54 opposed the budget for 2021 and 53 opposed the budget for 2022. Earlier, the Knesset approved on first reading the Arrangements Law by a similar majority. MK Amichai Shikli on the right is absent from the vote. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said immediately after the approval...

June 2021 set a new benchmark in apartment purchases since the peak set in June 2015 (then investors preceded their purchase against the background of the purchase tax increase), in this month 13.8 thousand apartments were purchased an increase of 26% compared to June last year. Due to the corona virus. It is difficult to say that the figure for the high volume of transactions published by the Chief Economist's Division of the Treasury was surprising, given the Bank of Israel's data on the volume of mortgages in June, which set an all-time high of NIS 11.6 billion. This amount was divided...

HMOs are starting to vaccinate against influenza viruses as early as next week, when new US flu vaccines have been released in the US ahead of a severe winter that could lead to a double wave of flu and corona flu. The World Health Organization states based on the monitoring of morbidity in the southern hemisphere that precedes the flu in the northern hemisphere, which shows that the common strains are similar to those of the last two years. This year, injectable vaccines (containing killed virus particles) intended for those aged six months and older at all ages, and spray vaccines...

16,401 Israelis were diagnosed positive for Corona over the weekend. This is according to data from the Ministry of Health. 9,725 Israelis were confirmed positive yesterday, and 6,676 have been diagnosed since midnight. Today about 118,000 tests were solved and yesterday about 178,000. The rate of positive tests in the last two days is about 6.5%. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 1,092 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 696 of them in critical condition. This is an increase compared to the number of serious patients at the beginning of Shabbat. In...

About 27,000 PCR tests were conducted at Ben Gurion Airport on September 9-10, 16,388 of which were returned from Uman in Ukraine - and now the results are flowing: Returned on flights from Uman. On Friday, it was reported that the number of Israelis verified in Corona who returned from Uman was 156, but on Saturday evening it turned out to be a much higher and more serious figure. 117 of them were summoned for questioning on suspicion of falsifying the test results. The tests are performed by Pemi Premium, and are performed immediately upon the arrival of all those returning to Israel...

Teva will be prosecuted for providing illegal incentives to two charities to encourage the use of the drug Copaxone to treat multiple sclerosis, and allow the company to bounce the price of the drug without hurting the demand for the drug. A Massachusetts court has rejected Teva's request to outright dismiss a lawsuit filed against it by the U.S. Department of Justice in August 2020. According to the lawsuit, Teva fraudulently withdrew payments from the federal health insurance company Medicare, flowing $ 328 million to two charities between 2006 and 2015. According to the lawsuit, the...

The huge improvement in the state budget data continues, along with increased activity in the economy - which has been open for seven months since the third closure. Although the state budget in August was again in deficit, the deficit is shrinking from month to month. In August, the deficit amounted to only NI 1.2%S 1.1 billion. The decrease in the cumulative deficit in August alone is the largest in all the 2000s - a decrease of to a level of 8%. In June, the budget deficit was 10% and in July 9.2%. Senior officials in the Ministry of Finance explained in the briefing on the budget data...

Itamar Medical is acquired for $ 538 million by American ZOLL Medical in a transaction that is entirely in cash. Itamar is a medical device company with a digital platform that focuses on diagnosing sleep apnea, which is traded in Tel Aviv and New York. In accordance with the terms of the agreement, which was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of each of the companies, Zol Medical will purchase in full the full share capital of Itamar Medical at a price of $ 31 for each deposit certificate (ADS), equivalent to $ 1.03 (NIS 3.31) for an ordinary share of The company. The offer...

The second quarter of 2021 was better than expected: the increase in GDP in the second quarter reached an annual rate of 16.6%, compared to the initial estimate that growth was only 15.4% - the Central Bureau of Statistics announced today. This means that the total GDP reached NIS 360 billion in the second quarter - thus surpassing the data for the fourth quarter of 2019 - the last quarter before the outbreak of the corona crisis. However, had it not been for the crisis, Israeli GDP would still have been higher - and the gap has not yet closed