Articles by November, 2018

The senior academic staff at seven public academic colleges stopped his five-week strike. The strike was halted following agreements reached with the assistance of the president of the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court. The studies will be renewed at Sapir College, Hadassah, Holon Institute of Technology, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College, Azrieli College of Engineering, Ruppin Academic Center and the Kinneret Academic College

Medtronic acquires the Israeli start-up Nutrimano, which analyzes information and creates nutrition analyzes. The Israeli start-up has raised $ 10 million to date. In a statement issued by Medtronic, the value of the agreement was not disclosed, but the market estimates that the deal is worth $ 100 million. VETRINO has developed tools for the collection, processing and analysis of nutrition data, suitable for both end users and organizations. The company collects information about users from a variety of sources, such as home computing and various medical sensors (such as glucose...

Elta Systems has unveiled a new upgraded version of the Drone Guard radar system to detect and disrupt UAVs and smal multirotor drones. The system has been sold in hundreds of units worldwide. The new and modular configuration includes an upgraded Comnet system that detects the skimmer according to its unique transmission frequency and protocol and is able to "take over" the communications to counteract threats. In addition, the radar, electro-optic system and jamming system have been updated and now offer improved capabilities

Black Friday sales worldwide will increase by 95 percent compared to last year. But the Israelis were definitely in the sales game and big. The Israeli retail chains, which feared the competition from abroad, launched significant Black Friday promotions and Israeli consumers reacted, creating a considerable burden on the credit system, causing a significant slowdown in the system for some time. On the infrastructure of the Central Payment System of the ISA, automatic banking services. This is a company that manages the infrastructure of the only payment system in the area of ​​debit cards...

The Jerusalem District Court acceded to the request of Co-Op Israel and issued a temporary stay of proceedings order until the hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning. The company asked the court for a temporary stay of proceedings due to liquidity problems. The company claims that Co-Op has a significant surplus of assets over liabilities and that it should implement an efficiency plan already in progress and halted following the cash flow. According to estimates, the chain's liabilities are estimated at NIS 100 million. At the same time, the Histadrut decided to declare a labor dispute...

Jerusalem continues to deteriorate in the socio-economic index: the capital fell within a decade from the fourth cluster to the second cluster. It is located in the 50th place of the end and falls to the lowest quintile of local authorities in Israel, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). All 11 municipalities that were in the lower cluster of the socio-economic index in 2013 remained there. All ten municipalities located in the two upper clusters also remained there. Only two authorities are located in the tenth cluster by the way, first Savyon, followed by Kfar Shmaryahu

Elta Systems Israel Aircraft Industries sold the drone guard radar system designed to locate, identify and disrupt UAVs and drills to Argentina. The system has been sold in hundreds of units around the world and includes a variety of sensors - a radar for identifying flying objects, a dedicated komint system that detects the hover according to the transmission frequency and its unique protocol identification (the information is used to verify the target and reduce false alerts) and a camera for final identification of the object in the sky