Following Yamina leader Naftali Bennett’s speech pledging to join Yair Lapid’s “change” bloc, there was murmuring within the Likud by ministers who said that Prime Minister Netanyahu should have been more willing to step aside and let someone else lead the party for a period of time that would have made possible the
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IDF veterans in a protest for better rehabilitations services for wounded soldiers, outside the Knesset, Wednesday. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Thursday that the government has reached agreement on a plan to improve services for wounded IDF soldiers.
“After many efforts, we reached an agreement between the Prime Minister’s Office and defense and finance ministries, together with the IDF Disabled Veterans Organization, on a budget [for] reforming the Rehabilitation Department. Wounded IDF veterans are important and dear to us and an immediate and fundamental reform is needed to ensure the help that they deserve,” Netanyahu said in a statement from his office.
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Apr. 22, 2021 1:03 AM
Israel’s broad unemployment rate continued to drop in the second half of March as the economy reopened from a year of coronavirus restrictions, but the number of jobless edged down by just 9,000 in the period to a total of about 484,000, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported Wednesday.
The broad unemployment rate fell to 11.6% in the second half of March from 12% in the first half. Since the second half of February, when the economy began to gradually reopen, the jobless rate has fallen in every two-week period by three percentage points.