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About 634,000 people entitled to unemployment benefits are in full unemployment, while 121,000 are entitled to part-time unemployment.Total applications for unemployment benefits since the beginning of the outbreak: 1.08 million applications. Of these, over 980,000 applications were approved (92%), while 114,000 were approved under COVID-19 terms (qualification period 6-12 months) and 85,000 were not eligible under the terms of the law.Today, about 1.09 million citizens are entitled to more than 980,000 shekels due to COVID-19 and more than 107,000 citizens are entitled to unemployment since the pre-crisis.Those who have not yet returned to the labor market: 668,191 citizens since 9/13 - (second wave) - 161,257 citizens went to unpaid leave, 77,905 new applications.

Blue and White faction Chairman Eitan Ginzburg today violated coalition discipline, and supported a proposal by Yesh Atid-Telem MK Yoray Lahav Hertzanu that seeks to stipulate that "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" (instead of "Father" and "Mother") be written in official forms of bodies that provide services to the public.

Police have issued 1,688 fines in the last day for COVID-19 violations.Most of the citations were given for "not wearing a mask in the public space" - 1,562, including 25 tickets for violating isolation as well as 60 for various violations by businesses.

Moshe Bar Siman Tov, the retiring Health Ministry Director, is joining the Institute for National Security Studies as a guest researcher, headed by Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Yadlin."Bar Siman Tov is expected to lead the institute in dealing with the place of the health system as an important and central component in Israel's concept of national security, and conduct research and policy documents, in collaboration with senior researchers at INS, that will be presented at the institute and to the public and decision makers. The right balance between the steps to deal with a multidimensional crisis - economic, health, social, and leadership - requires strengthening the research of the health system in Israel," the institute said in a statement.

MK Betzalel Smotrich attacked Transportation Minister Miri Regev in the Knesset plenum, who replaced him in the position: "Regev is trying to make quarrels between residents of the center and Tel Aviv and residents of the periphery - she's talking baseless nonsense."MK Smotrich recounted a meeting they had when she took over as Minister of Transport: "I said 'In the Transportation Ministry you're measured by indices. In the Culture Ministry you go in, fight with the Leftists, you get applause, yay." In addition, he accused her: "There's no good thing that you didn't burn in this Ministry. "Regev replied: "Smotrich did terrible things for transportation and was a tool of the officials, he abandoned the periphery and the Judea and Samaria area."

In most cases, those found breaching lockdown are Inly fined.