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A number of companies in the economy have joined the "Women's strike - women and girls are not no man's land" event, which is scheduled to take place the next day (Sunday) at 12:00. This follows demonstrations all ove r the country following the incident in Eilat, in which about 30 men allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl at a hotel. As part of the event of identification with the victims of sexual assault, the resident is currently working. Among the companies that announced that they would participate in the event: Psagot Investment House, which said that "its employees were shocked to...

The demonstrators against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu moved the demonstration from Balfour Street in Jerusalem to Tel Aviv on Thursday evening. About 1,000 protesters marched in the city without permission from the police. Hundreds of policemen from the Tel Aviv district deployed in the area with increased forces and announced that the protesters had dispersed - but did not use force against them. As a result of the march, the Azrieli junction was briefly blocked, and before that, Ibn Gvirol Street in the section between Arlozorov Street and Jabotinsky Street. Police in riot gear...

The rating company S&P announced last night that it had downgraded Teva's credit rating by one level - from BB to BB - which is a rating of junk bonds and 3 levels lower than an investment rating. S&P, which set a stable rating outlook, justified the downgrade by an increase in the legal risk that Teva faces (+ 0.66% 9.19) and its exposure to the payment of substantial sums in lawsuits related to claims of marketing policies that increased the narcotics-opioid epidemic that caused 400 deaths. -2017; Coordinated price and tender affair in the U.S. generic drug market and in the case of...

Israel has experienced day and night hundreds of fires across the country. Most of the fires broke out due to the heavy heat that hit Israel on Friday. However, the fire services estimate that there were quite a few arsons. However, this will become clear after most of the fires have been extinguished and it will be possible to start investigations. The firefighters gained control of most of the fires towards Friday evening, but on Mount Deborah near the Galilee landscape the fire was still raging during the evening and night. Dozens of firefighting planes from the Elad Squadron that...

The Legal advisor of the government and the Cheif procecuter Avichai Mandelblit officially announced on Thursday evening that he has decided to adopt the recommendation of the police and the State Attorney's Office and not open a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the stock affair. The attorney general states that the prime minister received benefits, but the offense is statute-barred. At the same time, Mandelblit referred to the submarine case (Case 3000) and announced following the petition of the Movement for Quality of Government to the High Court to...

"Minister Haim Katz will be prosecuted subject to a hearing on suspicion of tax evasion in the amount of NIS 2.2 million," Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit officially announced on Tuesday evening. According to the suspicion, Katz generated rental income from seven real estate properties, some of which are registered in his ownership and some of which were registered in the name of his family members. According to a statement from the Ministry of Justice tonight, the investigation material allegedly shows that between 2007-2018 Katz did not report his income from some of the seven assets...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit this evening (Thursday) addressed Finance Minister Israel Katz and clarified to him that "the post of Accountant General cannot be left unmanned." The minister replied that he agreed and would work for the nomination of a candidate already at the next cabinet meeting. Since the retirement of former accountant Roni Hezekiah last month, no deputy has been appointed to the position. "The role and powers of the Accountant General are of great importance in general, and in the period in which we are in particular," the ombudsman clarified, noting that in his...

A 41% increase in the number of bankruptcy applications filed from the beginning of 2020 to mid-November compared to the same period in 2019. This is according to a report by the Commissioner of Insolvency Proceedings in the Ministry of Justice, the state-responsible body for managing and supervising individual bankruptcy proceedings. Dissolution and recovery of companies and creditors' arrangements. Data reflecting an increase in bankruptcy filings indicate that following the Corona crisis, many businesses and individuals find themselves in financial turmoil and having difficulty staying...

After last week about 4,500 Israelis paid the fines imposed on them for violating the corona regulations in the total amount of NIS 2.4 million, the 100,000 reported reports line was crossed. This is reported by the Center for the Collection of Fines in the Enforcement and Collection Authority. The center reports that in the past week, about 11,000 corona reports were issued to citizens in the amount of about NIS 8 million. In the last month, Israelis were given an average of 11,000 corona fines a week. Since the beginning of the corona crisis, more than 376,000 fines have been distributed

The hacker group Pay2Key, which is suspected to be linked to Iran, released a database on Sunday evening that it said was stolen from the computers of IAI's Elta Division. The aerospace industry said the issue was under investigation. At least some of the names on the list do belong to Elta employees. For example, one employee whose name appeared on the list even appeared before a committee in the Knesset and whose name was published in the minutes of the same committee that is available on the Internet. The Iranian hacker group has already revealed last week that it has managed to break...