Business and Economy
A total of 615,834 people have registered as jobless so far in March.
The March 20 ride can be seen via the Zwift online platform, enabling fans with “smart” home-trainer devices to join the ride on their own bikes through their phones, TV or iPad screens.
It provides 18 months of career-oriented training alongside Torah learning, followed by a guaranteed minimum of two years’ employment to jump-start careers for ultra-Orthodox men.
In a seven-hour period, 28,000 new unemployed registered with the National Insurance Institute.
Dozens of Kindle eBook editions of the title have also been removed from the site, along with Hitler’s Amazon page, which displayed updates on authors and information on new releases.
Up to 80 percent of Israel’s public-sector workers and 70 percent of its private-sector office workers to go on leave until after Passover.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a slowdown of the country’s economy, including the closure of schools, at a projected cost of NIS 2 billion ($545 million) per week.
Iranian Health Ministry confirms 1,075 new coronavirus cases in past 24 hours, bringing total to 10,075 • Tehran requests $5 billion in aid from International Monetary Fund to deal with crisis.
“This is a tough decision, but it is essential to maintain public health—and public health precedes everything,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“If immediate government aid is not forthcoming, mass layoffs will begin, and the sector will lose over half of its employees,” says IHA president Amir Hayek.
Of new cases, seven returned from Europe and six contracted virus in Israel • Patients reportedly in “light condition” with three already released from hospital.
“I will continue building relationships between Israel and its neighbors in the region to work on what once seemed impossible—building together an economic bridge of peace,” said former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt.
