Articles by December, 2018

Bezeq published its fifth report on the state of the Internet in Israel to summarize the year 2018. The report reviews the habits and behavior of Israelis in the digital era and is based on extensive research conducted by the company on the Internet in Israel, the trends that govern it and its various uses, as well as data from the company's operations and systems. The report shows that at the end of 2018 the number of Internet users in Israel stands at approximately 6.6 million. The average surfer now downloads 8GB of files per day, up 30% in just one year. 36% of the youth pay for music....

he Electra Group, controlled by Daniel and Michael Salkind, is entering the real estate sector, but not in Israel but in the US. It is acquiring two contracting companies that deal with the electro-mechanical field in New York. According to the agreements signed, Electra is acquiring 51% of the share capital of Hellman Electric and Gilston Electrical. The two companies are contractors in the field of electrical works in New York City. The total investment is estimated at NIS 155 million. Investors on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange are happy for the time being, sending Electra Group shares up 2%

Just before 2018, last year's 4 million tourist visit to Ben Gurion Airport ended this week, an 11% increase over the number of tourists who entered Israel in 2017. Direct revenues from tourism in 2018 amount to about $ 22 billion A rise of about 13% in revenues compared with the previous year According to Ministry of Tourism data, most of the countries have seen an increase in the number of entries to Israel, especially China and Russia, two countries that are in the top ten countries in incoming tourism in Israel, According to the ministry's data, in the first 11 months of the year there...

In Israel, the percentage of poor children has fallen by eight tenths of a percent, and their number is one million seven hundred and eighty thousand four hundred. This emerges from the poverty report of the National Insurance Institute for the year 2000 Among families, there was a decline of three tenths of a percentage point, due to an increase of 4 percent and 6 percent in disposable income