Communication

The long queues at Ben Gurion Airport where the Israelis stood during the week of Passover are also reflected in the data: in April this year, 685.6 thousand passenger departures were recorded abroad, close to the numbers before the corona eruption in 2019, when 798.7 thousand passengers left the country. On the other hand, despite a significant recovery, the increase in inbound tourism is still far from the data before the crisis and stands at about half of April 2019. Due to the Corona restrictions in 2020 as a whole, 887.1 thousand foreign arrivals to Israel were recorded, and in 2021...

In the next five years, the Ministry of Transportation will invest about NIS 1 billion in the network of public transportation routes and bicycle paths in Netanya. This was announced by Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli and Netanya Mayor Miriam Feierberg, after signing the agreement. The project will be completed only in 2027. In the coming year, the Ministry of Transportation and the municipality will complete the preparation, and only then will the actual work begin. The Ministry of Transportation was proud today that Netanya will be the first city in Israel to offer maximum...

The CEO of the public broadcasting corporation "Kan", Eldad Koblenz, is leaving his position after seven years. He will be temporarily replaced by the corporation's vice president of television, Tal Freifeld. Koblenz was due to end his term in March 2023 but was forced to resign after a dismissal order was issued by the corporation council last month. Koblenz petitioned the Labor Court for a restraining order against his dismissal, but the president of the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court, Justice Eyal Avrahami, ruled on Thursday that the hearing procedure for Koblenz was lawful. The...

Yes has received an Internet provider license, and will begin selling combined packages of Bezeq's TV, provider and Internet infrastructure, Bezeq announced today (Thursday) to the stock exchange. The move will further shrink the customer base of Bezeq International (750,000 customers), which has already lost tens of thousands of customers in favor of Bezeq following the reform to abolish the separation between supplier and infrastructure. The reform actually helped Bezeq increase its power at the expense of its subsidiary

Apple unveiled the iPhone 14. At its fall event, the technology giant presented the Apple Watch for extreme athletes, AirPods headphones that cancel out even more noise than before, and the iPhone 14 models that for the first time include support for satellite communication and real-time accident detection; All models sold in the US will now only support eSim - what will happen to them in Israel? Just yesterday they were announced at a festive event and already today we are informed of the prices in Israel of the 4 new Apple devices: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14...

After the government approved last night (Sunday) the proposal for the establishment of metropolitan transportation authorities by the Minister of Transportation, MK Merav Michaeli, which should allow, with the advancement of the legislation, the delegation of powers to the authorities to run public transportation tenders on Shabbat, the question arises whether the heads of the local authorities who will head the metropolitan areas are even interested in this.

The police and the Shin Bet opened an investigation into suspected damage to the railway tracks between Acre and Karmiel, after it was discovered that an obstacle had been placed on the track near Route 85. There were no casualties and no damage was caused. For the security officials' investigation. The rest of the details of the case and the investigation are subject to a publication ban. The detainee took advantage of the shutdown of the track due to the holiday, and placed an engineered accessory, which was apparently designed to cause a train to derail on its journey at the end of the...

The European low-cost company Wizz Air is coming to Ramon Airport and will offer Israelis direct flights from Ramon to destinations in Europe. The company will start operating two weekly flights to Vienna in Austria and Rome in Italy starting this December. The first flights are scheduled to take off on December 17

The new Minister of Transportation, Miri Regev, met earlier today (Sunday) with senior officials of the Ministry of Transportation and Israel Railways to discuss work on the railroads on Saturday. Regev said that on Shabbat only work related to supervision will be carried out, and asked to present additional solutions to reduce work on the track on Shabbat. Last night, those around the minister also claimed that despite the request of the minister of housing and Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf to stop the works on Shabbat, they will continue.

Partner will compensate with benefits amounting to an additional three million shekels for a huge glitch in its television broadcasts two years ago: Last week, a request was submitted to the District Court in Tel Aviv to approve a settlement agreement and grant validity of a judgment to the settlement agreement, as part of requests to approve class actions filed in 2021 against the company Partner Communications. In the center of the applications submitted through three different law firms, it is claimed that for several days in January 2021, Partner TV's television services were down for...