As I noted in my response to Paul's comment above, you can avoid the fees if the applicant is old or sickly (but what if the applicant is a company and it's only the inventor who's old or sickly?). In principle you can get the fee waived by making a PPH request, but of course that won't be situation here. The ILPTO also waives the fee for accelerating examination of "green" applications (and, if I recall correctly, applications concerning treatment or detection of the Wuhan virus), but I need to revisit the announcement of that program to understand the basis for the waiver.

Paul, you're correct that a mechanism for expediting examination already exists, but that was precisely my point: until now, anyone who'd filed a provisional and then decided he wants an examination report before the end of the priority year could file an Israel application claiming priority to the priority application make a request under section 19A of the statute that the examination be expedited. 19A(a) lists six non-exclusive bases for such a request: (1) applicant's age or state of health; (2) a published notice of Commissioner on the basis of examination of a corresponding foreign application (i.e., PPH); (3) infringement or suspicion of infringement by a third party; (4) unreasonable delay on the part of the ILPTO in examining the case, (5) for the public good; (6) particular circumstances that justify the application being examined out of turn. What this week's announcement effectively does is say that (i) an application's claiming of priority from a provisional application will ipso facto be considered a sufficient basis to expedite examination (under 19A(a)(6), I guess), and (ii) the earlier announcement about waiving the requirement for an affidavit ("declaration" is actually a more accurate translation of תצהיר) applies here too. You are correct that the regulations actually establish a two-part fee scheme, a first fee for requesting that the examination be expedited, and a second fee to expedite if the request is granted. I only mentioned the second fee. More importantly, and in contrast to what I wrote, the fees are waived for applicant age/health or PPH requests, but are due for applications that are first filed in Israel. So the cost difference between first filing a provisional and then filing in Israel and requesting acceleration of examination versus first filing in Israel and requesting acceleration of examination are whatever you pay to file a provisional.