Articles by November, 2018

The European Union's budget program for innovation development is expected to introduce innovations that could harm the research budgets of Israeli high-tech. This is a new outline for the Horizon Europe program, the Horizon 2020 sequel. The new plan was submitted two weeks ago to the European Parliament, and includes new emphasis on allocating a research and development budget of about 100 billion euros for the years 2027-2021

Harish is the growing city in Israel. The survey was carried out over the past five years and the data collected indicate that in the past five years 2,367 dwellings have been built for every 1,000 residents in the city. The investigators noted that Harish began to settle only a year and a half ago, and despite that, the rate of occupancy in it compared to other places is enormous

The son of businessman Lev Leviev Zevulun is one of the 10 suspects in the smuggling of diamonds to Israel. The other suspects are Moshe Leviev, brother of Lev Leviev, Reuven Shamalov, Asher Yechieli, Hanania Issacharov and Yehuda Isor. Medov in the smuggling of diamonds through the LLD company owned by the well-known businessman who is currently in Russia. According to suspicions, the suspects, each according to his share, managed a network of smuggling diamonds to Israel and beyond its borders, over many years, amounting to about 300 million

The investigation into the file 3000 is completed after two years and the police recommend that six suspects be brought to trial: Police claim evidence has been formed against six involved in the submarine affair: Brig. Gen. (res.) Avriel Bar Yosef, Brig. Gen. (res.) Shai Brosh, Attorney David Shimron, former minister Modi Zandberg and David Sharan, who said that "there was not enough evidence to commit crimes" from attorney Yitzhak Molcho, his close associate, advisor and former personal envoy to the prime minister

Five months after the agreement reached between Channel 10 and Channel 13 regarding the merger, members of the Second Authority Council approved the merger. Eight council members supported the merger, and only the head of the Second Authority, Yulia Shamalov-Berkovitz, objected

Israeli security company Check Point revealed a serious security problem in the rackets of the Chinese DJI company. DJI is considered to be the leader and largest in the global civilian-consumer market, with a market share of 70%. Check Point's investigators, Dikla Barda and Roman Zaken, said the problem allowed hackers to break into the personal accounts of the spiders' operators, and in some cases to obtain real-time access to the information and even receive live video and voice broadcasts

The Bank of Israel announced the cessation of the foreign currency purchases program aimed at offsetting the effect of gas production on the exchange rate, which began at the end of the tenure of former Governor Stanley Fischer, coinciding with the end of the term of the Governor, Karnit Flug. The dollar posted a sharp drop, moving from a 0.2% rise to a drop of 0.36% and is now trading around NIS 3.6767

At the end of an assessment of the situation, the IDF announced the removal of the restrictions on defense in the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip, the Negev and Lachish. Accordingly, studies in educational institutions in the cities and regional councils will be held in order. The Israel Railways said that according to the security forces' instructions, rail traffic in the Ashkelon-Be'er Sheva area will be renewed in the morning

Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced on Wednesday during a special meeting of his party MK members, Yisrael Beiteinu, that he would resign as defense minister. In a statement to the press. Lieberman announced the move and called for a new date for elections as soon as possible. He announced the convening of the meeting about a day after the end of the round of escalation against Hamas. A senior Likud official said after the announcement of Lieberman's resignation: "We do not have to go to elections, the case will go to Netanyahu

The house price index for August-September rose by 0.1% compared with the July-August index, followed by housing prices in the last 12 months, a decrease of 1.9%. New home prices fell by 0.6 percent in August-September and the rate of government-sponsored transactions (occupant price and target price) was 34.1 percent