Articles by August, 2020

The government is trying to fight the implications of the Corona crisis. it was reported this morning that the Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, and the Minister of Economy and Industry, Amir Peretz, agreed on a plan to encourage investment and employment in the manufacturing and high-tech industries in the amount of NIS 1.1 billion. Manufacturers Association. The program includes budgets to encourage investment, R&D and innovation as well as opening markets with an emphasis on enterprises affected by the crisis and retaining a significant proportion of their workers, a budget for...

There is no real danger to financial stability in Israel, but the intensity of the risk to financial stability in the first half of the year was assessed as medium-high. This emerges from the Financial Stability Report of the Bank of Israel's Financial Division, published on Tuesday. This is a rare assessment of its kind in Israel. The report reveals that Israel is below average among the countries that have provided support to the economy, both in grants to citizens and assistance to the self-employed and companies, and in providing guarantees for loans and opening special funds for...

Surprising recovery in the housing market: A survey by the Chief Economist of the Ministry of Finance shows that in June there was a record sale of apartments since the outbreak of the crisis. The increase was also recorded compared to June last year. Total transactions last June amounted to 10,900 - an increase of 16% compared to June last year. After deducting price-per-tenant sales, 9,100 transactions were recorded in the free market - an increase of 11% compared to the corresponding period. 4,200 new apartments were sold in June, the highest monthly number since the beginning of the...

The Deputy State Attorney and the prosecutor in the Netanyahu cases, Liat Ben-Ari, was recently summoned for questioning together with her husband Aviv Shviki, on suspicion of construction offenses in a property registered in their name in Rosh HaAyin. According to the municipal inspectorate, Ben-Ari is suspected of splitting the apartment she owns into two housing units without a permit, which could be considered a criminal offense. The Ministry of Justice denied Ben-Ari's summons to a hearing, but the Rosh HaAyin municipality confirmed the details to Haaretz. This is a hearing before an...

The tender for new frequencies, including frequencies for the 5th generation of cellular phones, ended on Wednesday evening without any significant surprises. The cellular companies will pay a total of NIS 265 million for the new frequencies, but will later be reimbursed according to the network's deployment rate. The concern that arose at the beginning of the tender, according to which some of the companies would remain without frequencies, was removed with the publication of the results of the tender. All companies will receive frequencies that will allow the expansion of the 4th...

The Ministry of Defense has identified and thwarted a phishing attack against employees of the defense industries in Israel, which was intended to infiltrate their corporate computer networks, the ministry announced today (Wednesday). According to the Ministry of Defense, the investigation of the affair shows that the attempted attack was carried out by an international cyber system called "Lazarus", which is backed by a foreign country, with the help of social engineering and impersonation

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this evening (Thursday): "We have decided on the establishment of an official and complete peace between Israel and the United Arab Emirates." According to Netanyahu, "this is a historic moment." Netanyahu issued a statement following the agreement between Israel, the United States and the United Arab Emirates to postpone annexation in the West Bank in favor of normalization with the United Arab Emirates. However, the prime minister said at the press conference: "There is no change in my plan to apply our sovereignty in Judea and Samaria in...

On Saturday evening for the eighth week in a row, many Israelis demonstrated at bridges and intersections across the country in protest of the conduct of the government and its leader - Benjamin Netanyahu - regarding the economic crisis. Also, many thousands protested in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, under the headline "We are the hope - voting with our feet," and hundreds demonstrated near his home in Caesarea. One of the signs read: "When will you make peace between us?". At the same time, police announced that they had arrested a Hadera resident on suspicion of...

On Saturday evening for the eighth week in a row, many Israelis demonstrated at bridges and intersections across the country in protest of the conduct of the government and its leader - Benjamin Netanyahu - regarding the economic crisis. Also, many thousands protested in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, under the headline "We are the hope - voting with our feet," and hundreds demonstrated near his home in Caesarea. One of the signs read: "When will you make peace between us?". At the same time, police announced that they had arrested a Hadera resident on suspicion of...

1,386 people infected with corona were identified on Friday. This is according to data from the Ministry of Health. This is a rate of about 7% of the total tests (about 20.7 thousand). So far, a total of 674 people have died in Israel since the outbreak of the plague. The hospitals hospitalize 387 patients in critical condition, of whom 116 are respirators. The death toll from the plague in Israel has risen by eight since midnight to 665, the Ministry of Health updates. 783 people are hospitalized: 375 in critical condition, including 108 respirators, and 158 in moderate condition. 931...