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1,023 Israelis were diagnosed yesterday as positive for Corona. This is the lowest number of verified since July 24. A total of 52,000 tests were performed and the positive rate was 1.99%. This is the first time since the end of July that the verified rate has been below 2%. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 674 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 463 of them in critical condition. This is a number similar to what it was last night. 186 of the critically ill patients are connected to respirators

After a year and a half of partial distance learning, the academic year opened on Sunday and hundreds of thousands of students will fill the campuses and study in classrooms. The studies will take place under the rules of the "green character". Thus, higher education institutions have announced that most of the learning will take place on campuses, but they intend to incorporate distance learning on a limited scale as well. 350,000 students are expected to study in the current academic year at 59 institutions of higher learning. This is an increase of four percent compared to the previous...

Green lable regulations confuse the public. The courts have recently ruled that the requirement to fulfill the obligations of the green lable: that is, to be vaccinated or provide a negative test result, to enter the workplace is a reasonable requirement. However, despite the clear position of the courts and also of the legal advice to the government businesses that operated then according to the green lable interpreted the regulations each in a different way. Some explicitly stated that not all of their employees were vaccinated, and others made it clear that only vaccinated workers or...

After eight years of parking, Israel is back on the map with the Nobel Prize - but as in the previous time, this time too it is a "semi-Israeli" win: Prof. Josh Angrist from MIT, an Israeli-American, became the 13th Israeli to win the most prestigious award , Even though he dropped out of his first year as a graduate student at the Hebrew University. The announcement in Stockholm of Prof. Angrist's win joins the winning of 12 other Israelis. So far, the prize is awarded annually to selected personalities for their contribution to science, literature, and humanity as a whole, the author SY...

The deficit in September continued to decline in September and amounted to NIS 6 billion. In the last 12 months, the deficit has fallen to 7.4% of GDP. State revenues since the beginning of the year amounted to NIS 295 billion, while state expenditures amounted to NIS 346.7 billion. The deficit shrank mainly due to the sharp 26% increase in state revenues in the first three quarters of the year. State revenues from the beginning of 2021 on taxes have jumped by 19.7%, with the sharpest increase (26.3%) recorded in direct taxes. At the same time, "other income" was recorded for the state,...

Industrial plants in Israel are in trouble. They are short of workers and have great difficulty recruiting skilled workers. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel's industry lacks 13,700 workers. The problem of shortage of workers in the industry is not new but increased during the Corona. Before the crisis, there was a shortage of 10,000 workers, which increased to almost 14,000. Many of the positions in the industry, at least a quarter of the missing workers, are positions on production lines, near furnaces or in the field of concrete castings. In these positions it is...

In 2020, the profits of government companies in Israel amounted to NIS 2.9 billion - compared with NIS 4 billion in 2019; This is due to losses amounting to NIS 643 million in the Israel Post attributed to the corona year, and expenses of more than NIS 950 million in respect of retirement benefits for employees at the Haifa Post and Port prior to their privatization. The operating profit data make it possible to examine the decrease in the companies 'profitability due to the corona, less the one-time events, and these data indicate a decrease of about NIS 350 million in the companies'...

Iron Source, managed by Tomer Bar-Ze'ev, CEO and co-founder, announced today (Thursday) the acquisition of the mobile advertising company Tapjoy for $ 400 million in cash - and the share of Iron Source jumped by 6%. The deal is expected Close in the fourth quarter of 2021 or the first quarter of 2022. Tapuji is engaged in mobile advertising and monetization (generating revenue from applications). Revenue of $ 81 million in 2021. According to Iron Source, the acquisition will strengthen its platform on several levels: Iron Source customers will be able to increase their revenue by...

The housing market is turbulent: According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in the 12 months of September 2020 to August 2021: 49,000 new apartments were purchased, a 32% jump compared to the previous 12 months September 2019 - August 2020. In that period 37,000 appartments were purchased. In the 12 months that passed until September 2021, construction also began on 13,000 apartments that are not for sale (for example, by purchasing groups and projects of your home)

The murder on Friday morning of businessman Eldad Perry, 44, caught the residents of Rehovot by surprise. Some residents were in the middle of a morning run, and others were praying in the synagogue when they suddenly heard the sounds of gunfire. Police are continuing efforts to clarify the circumstances of the murder, with all directions of the investigation still open. 06:10 - Businessman Eldad Perry leaves his house for the neighborhood synagogue located in the Faculty of Agriculture, where he used to pray every morning. 06:17 - Perry stops in the parking lot and gets out of the car. A...