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Global glitch strike began on Monday evening on Facebook platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram. Users have reported a glitch that prevents them from accessing networks, apps or websites. After midnight, Facebook and Instagram resumed operations, and around 02:00, the WhatsApp messaging app also returned to function, about six hours after it started. "We apologize to anyone who could not use WhatsApp today," the company tweeted, "WhatsApp is starting to work slowly and carefully again. Thank you for your patience." Earlier it was written in a Facebook account: "To the huge community...

Cyber ​​company Orca Security closed a $ 550 million capital raising round, valued at $ 1.8 billion. This is an extension of a series C round that was announced earlier this year in the amount of $ 210 million. The company has since expanded its round by raising an additional $ 340 million, which has increased the company's value by about 50%. In total, Orca has raised $ 640 million since its inception, $ 605 million of which has been raised in less than a year. The round was led by the Singapore Government Investment Fund Temasek. Which is one of the largest investors in the world,...

About 26% of undergraduate students study computer science, including mathematics and statistics and engineering. This is the fourth year in a row that engineering studies are the most coveted study program in Israel. More than 38,000 students, which is 18.2% of the 208,461 undergraduate students, study engineering. This is according to the report of the Council for Higher Education ahead of the start of the academic year this coming Sunday. The report shows that engineering studies continue to overtake the social sciences, which for years have been considered the largest field of study in...

The number of corona patients who are in a serious condition continues to decline, and their number on Tuesday evening is 489. This is the first time since August 13 that the number of patients is seriously lower than 500. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 197 of the seriously ill patients are connected to respirators. Of the 489 patients who were severe, 363 were not vaccinated at all, 79 received the two vaccine doses but not the booster dose and 33 were also vaccinated in the third dose. In fact, more than 76% of severe patients are not vaccinated, compared with less than 7%...

Microsoft Israel Research and Development announced on Wednesday that it intends to double the number of its employees in the next four years - from about 2,000 to about 4,500. Due to the expected jump in the number of employees, Microsoft has announced that it will open five new development centers in Israel in the coming years. The company will establish a new campus in Tel Aviv that will be spread over 25,000 square meters and will house more than 1,000 employees. A new center in Herzliya will be built with a size of 17,000 square meters that will accommodate 1,000 employees as well...

The shortening of the shifts of interns in hospitals is underway: On Tuesday evening, the Minister of Finance, Avgidor Lieberman, the Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, and the Minister of the Economy, Orna Barbibai, agreed on an initial outline for shortening the shifts from 26 hours to 18 hours (16 plus 2). At this stage only for hospitals in the periphery (10 total) - and excluding professions of surgery. The interns - who do not accept the outline - plan to intensify the struggle and carry out a mass resignation from the hospitals today. "We are continuing our struggle. We will...

An Israeli study, the first of its kind in the world, which included hundreds of thousands of Pfizer vaccines, shows that the chance of developing myocarditis following the vaccine is extremely rare, and even when it is realized, it is a very mild disease, without affecting heart function. The study is published Thursday night in the leading medical journal The New England Journal of Medicine. The study, conducted by the Beilinson Hospital Cardiology Department in collaboration with the Clalit Research Institute, examined the prevalence of myocarditis and its severity after receiving the...

The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 2,064 verified cases of the corona virus. The number of patients in critical condition dropped to 460. 227 patients are in critical condition, 183 of them respiratory. Also, during that day, nine patients died, and the total number of water since the outbreak of the plague rose to 7,885. To date, about 3.7 million people have been vaccinated against corona in Israel in the third dose. During yesterday, about 33,000 people were vaccinated with this dose. The data also show that the coefficient of infection continues to decline and now stands...

The outline that is expected to prevent isolation for students in schools in green localities will only take effect on Tuesday or Wednesday. This is despite the fact that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and the Ministry of Health claimed that the pilot would begin tomorrow. The reason why the outline is expected to start only later this week - the tests required to maintain the outline have not yet reached the authorities and school principals. In order to maintain the outline, which is an extension of the "Green Class" pilot, about 920,000 antigen test kits are required for about 410,000...

There was a significant increase in 2020 in the number of working days lost to the Israeli economy as a result of strikes - 391,000 working days lost compared to only 110,000 working days lost in 2019. However, the number of strikes in the economy decreased last year, because strikes in 2020 were much longer, on average. New data published by the Labor Relations Unit in the Ministry of Economy shows that in 2020, which was entirely in the shadow of the Corona plague, there were "only" 31 strikes in Israel compared to 45 strikes in 2019