Articles by December, 2019

On Sunday, the OECD released a new report on ways to reduce the congestion of traffic in Israel. In recent months, the issue of congestion fees has returned to public discourse, and as the new Transport Minister at Bezalel advances steps to reduce road congestion in favor of public transport, the new report provides insights and conclusions about the effectiveness of the block toll systems and their use in various cities around the world, In Milan, Singapore and Stockholm congestion fees have significantly reduced the load, and New York is now also planning a similar program

Israeli cyber security company Checkpoint has announced the acquisition of Israeli cyber company Protego from Israel. According to Checkpoint, the acquisition will extend cloud protection services to customers using serverless cloud applications (Cerberles). The purchase amount is estimated at $ 40 million. Check Point announced that it would "integrate technology as part of its unified Infinity defense architecture" and that the acquisition will help Checkpoint "help organizations protect themselves from fifth and sixth generation cyber attacks." Protago was founded in 2015 under the...

About two weeks ago, Tesla registered a wholly-owned subsidiary called "Tesla Motor Israel". The reason for listing the company is probably the vehicle import regulations in Israel, which require a car importer to be a company, registered in Israel. According to the Companies Registrar, the Company's description is "Import, Distribution, Sale, Maintenance and Repair of Electric Vehicles and Stationary Energy Storage Equipment Systems, Energy Production Equipment, including Solar Panels, Solar Energy Systems, and / or Other Solar Energy Conversion Systems, and General All other energy...

A complete collapse in the achievements of Arab education in Israel. This is the picture that emerges from the PISA 2018 exam grades for 9th graders. In the three areas of the test, Arab students achieved a decline, as well as peak gaps between Hebrew and Arabic students, with the average gap being 124 points. 54% of Arab students were classified as having difficulty in all three areas together, compared to only 12% among Jews. The gaps between strong and weak students in Israel are also highest in all the countries examined in all three subjects. The findings are particularly difficult in...

Partner TV, the growing television service in Israel for the past two years, has won the prestigious category of 'Featured TV App' for 2019 at the International VideoTech Innovation Awards competition in London. The competition is considered an "Oscar" for streaming and video technology, competing with streaming giants, telecoms and technology from around the world, including Microsoft, TiVo, CenturyLink, Verizon, Chinese ZTE, DAZN specializing in sports broadcasting over the Internet, and more. In the competition, a number of personal awards were given to prominent technology...

Now it's official. The Castro - Hoodies fashion group has concluded its collaboration with Kim Kardashian. Kardashian was recruited a year ago to promote the Carolina Laminated Glasses brand in the US. The collaboration with Instagram has been signed for two years and the company has been hoping that Kardashian will bring high traffic to the brand in the form of exposure to some of its 152 million followers on Instagram. However, the activity did not produce the expected results and Castro was not satisfied with the cooperation. Kardishan received $ 6 million from Castro and as the...

The Hazilo is a revolutionary interface based on face recognition technology, and was set up to minimize the number of missing persons and to assist their families in locating them, through the public and his cell phones. Families of missing persons, or those at high risk of disappearance such as at-risk youth, Alzheimer's who find it difficult to get around, small children lost in homeless places, etc., can log on to www.Hazilu.com, open a free account and incorporate a family photo including contact information Of his relatives, just as M. did with her son, which helped the reindeer...

The average monthly gross income per employee from hired employment was NIS 10,584 in 2018, up 4% compared to 2017. Median income per employee is NIS 7,988, a real increase of 6.3% compared to 2017, according to data released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. . The average number of working hours per week is 40.9, and the average gross income per working hour is NIS 61.7. According to gender, 51.6% of employees are men and 48.4% are women. The average gross income per employee male is NIS 12,498 per month (and NIS 66.3 per hour). The average gross income per hired woman is...

amounted to 3.9 million tonnes, an increase of 14% compared to 2014. However, the amount of waste recycled amounted to 2.9 million tonnes, and 75% of the total waste in the manufacturing and electricity industries remained, similar to 2014. , According to the 2017 CBS Environmental Survey. In 2017, approximately 20,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases were emitted in the manufacturing and electricity sectors, which account for about 31% of total greenhouse gas emissions as a result of fuel combustion, and this year only 6% - 4% of companies in the manufacturing and electricity sectors undertook...

Buyers in based neighborhoods pay the lowest average interest rate on the mortgage, while low-income neighborhood buyers pay the highest interest rates on average. This is according to a study published by the Bank of Israel. The study, conducted by Dr. Natalia Pressman and Dr. Nitzan Tzur Ilan of the Bank of Israel Research Division, attempted to examine the impact of various factors on determining the interest rate to reflect the risks posed by regional housing market characteristics. The analysis is based on over 80,000 mortgages provided by the banking system in 2013-2010 and the...