Articles by March, 2019

The chairman of the permits committee, retired judge Euni Habash, resigned 10 days ago. The committee operates on behalf of the State Comptroller's Office. Judge Habash told his associates that he felt "political pressure" put on the committee he headed. Last month, the committee rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's second request to authorize him to raise $ 2 million in donations from two of his close associates, cousin Natan Milikovsky and businessman Spencer Partridge, to finance his legal representation. According to a statement sent by the State Comptroller's Office to the...

Israel Natural Gas Lines Company inaugurated the natural gas pipeline to Jerusalem in a ceremony attended by Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon.This is an 18-inch, 34-kilometer-long pipe, costing NIS 290 million. The construction was done in two sections. The first part, the western one, starts close to the Sorek interchange on the Trans-Israel Highway and the second begins at the Zion Railroad station near Sha'ar Hagai. It ends at Beit Zayit. Only when this facility is completed can the gas flow to factories and consumers in the Jerusalem area. In 2020, the...

Alibaba announced that it is acquiring the Israeli company InfinityAR. The amount of the acquisition was not disclosed but is estimated at $ 10 million. In a statement issued by the Israeli company, she says that the company's employees will join Alibaba's machine vision lab in Israel after three years of partnership. Alibaba is the largest investor in the company alongside Moshe Singag's Singularity. So far, $ 25 million has been invested in the Israeli company, so the deal does not return the investment in a company established in 2012

Severe security breaches were discovered in the applications of the Likud and Labor parties, Check Point reported. The company did not examine applications by other parties as white blue, as they do not have official applications. Check Point researchers found that the Labor Party application extracts and maintains contact lists of its users without their knowledge and uploads them to an external server, mapping the social connections of users based on the names of the contacts, apparently in order to map the nature of the relationship between the user and the contacts His. In doing so,...

The plan of the Ministry of Economy to encourage the absorption of workers and workers whose participation in the labor market is low is underway. The Investment Authority allocates NIS 46 million to the plan, which stimulates employers to absorb workers. The program encourages employers to absorb workers whose participation in the labor market is low: persons with disabilities, single parents, Druze, Bedouin, Circassians, ultra-Orthodox and residents of national priority areas A. The amount of assistance for each worker is on average 20% of the worker's wage for 30 months, in some cases...

Elta Systems, a subsidiary and division of Israel Aircraft Industries, is acquiring 50% of the Eltam subsidiary of the MalamTeam group for NIS 42 million. The acquisition represents a step in the implementation of IAI's strategy to enter the IDF maintenance and outsourcing market in areas rich in technological equipment