Reuters: GDP contracts by annualized 6.5% in first three months of 2021 vs forecast for 3.6% growth in quarter

Two tech giants best Microsoft, IBM and Oracle to set up data centers and provide cloud services to local public entities with data secured within Israel's borders

With restrictions on businesses eased, the number of jobless shrunk by tens of thousands

Reopening the economy requires balancing individual rights, including of inoculation-refusers, with public welfare, experts agree; but the government hasn't weighed in definitively

'Landmark' loan from US tech giant will help the Israeli organization provide low-interest funds to small local businesses that are struggling due to pandemic

Proposed Finance Ministry plan, which seeks to come into force next week, sees tech, financial and services sectors leading a phased 'return to normal,' reassessed at each stage

Without a big economic package and increased spending, the effect of the pandemic on the economy will be 'even more devastating', IDI's Karnit Flug says

Weizmann Institute researchers develop epidemiological model that predicts cyclical lockdown would more slowly eradicate virus, but keep key economical sectors functioning

Innovation Authority to disburse funding to Israeli firms hit by the crisis, including NIS 50 million to companies combating the virus outbreak

Finance Ministry to sell $5 billion in debt to international investors to pay for NIS 80 billion plan as businesses falter, unemployment skyrockets