Articles by September, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Government
The Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Economy and Industry are launching an innovative aid track to increase research collaborations between manufacturing companies and academic institutions, to the extent of NIS 4 million The track will allow manufacturing-oriented industrial companies to order studies from the leading research institutions in Israel in a way that will allow the local industry to incorporate groundbreaking knowledge into products and production processes, advance to the forefront of industrial innovation and take leading positions in global markets
Sep 2, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Financial
Flight prices in the world and in Israel during the upcoming holidays are expected to be higher than usual. The demand for flights after the exit from the period of the corona closures encountered many challenges, including the energy crisis created by the war in Ukraine and a shortage of personnel in the aviation industry. The price of jet fuel - which is usually about a quarter of the airlines' total operating costs - is skyrocketing. The increase in its price this year is twice as high as the increase in the price of crude oil - which reflects the huge demand for flights. Following...
Sep 4, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Financial
Less than half a year after he started a tender process for the sale of the company he founded, Haim Monheit, an almost unknown entrepreneur, his Elmo from the city of Petah-Tikva for more than 700 million dollars to the giant German concern Bosch. Bosh agreed to pay more than the American company Rockwell Automation and beat it in the tender. One of the biggest exits of a private shareholder in recent years. Elmo is owned by Haim Monheit who founded it in 1988 together with two friends who have since retired. Elmo develops advanced traffic controllers and employs 330 people in Petah...
Sep 5, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Communication
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...
Sep 8, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Capital Market
In August, a budget deficit of about one billion shekels was measured, but the accumulated budget surplus in the last 12 months remained at 0.6% of GDP. Everything emerges from data published today (Thursday) by the Accountant General of the Ministry of Finance, CPA Yali Rotenberg. The cumulative surplus since the beginning of the year has dropped to the amount of NIS 34.4 billion - still unprecedented since the state has never had a situation where after eight months there is a surplus of funds in the state budget. What's more, the surplus is about 8% of the annual state budget
Sep 8, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Financial
As part of the Histadrut's ongoing struggle against the cost of living in Israel, representatives of the Histadrut, social activists, and citizens came Friday afternoon to protest the cost of living in front of the house of the president of the Union of Chambers of Commerce Uriel Lin in north Tel Aviv. The activists waved signs that read, among other things, "The workers are the solution - not the problem", "The tycoons are the engine of the cost of living" and "The state belongs to the workers and not to the tycoons"
Sep 9, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
A new scientific development may lead to blood tests for cancer diagnosis: Weizmann Institute researchers have located genetic changes in the blood of cancer patients, which may represent a "seal" that will enable early diagnosis of various diseases and cancerous tumors - with a simple blood test. The research findings are published in the scientific journal Nature Biotechnology. Cancer is the world's leading cause of death, even before heart disease, and the diagnosis is often made too late, when the tumor has already spread and the metastases cannot be destroyed. The currently accepted...
Sep 10, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Government
The average budget for a state-religious high school student in 2021 was NIS 41,400 - 26% more than the budget for a state high school student, which was over NIS 32,800. This was the gap in 2020 as well - thereby maintaining the large gap between the two sectors this year as well. This is according to the "Budgetary Transparency" presentation for 2021 published today (Sunday) by the Ministry of Education. These disparities are the result of the period in which ministers from the religious parties ruled the ministry, between 2015 and 2020 - first Naftali Bennett and then Rafi Peretz - who...
Sep 11, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Financial
Israelis try to save on expenses that are considered a necessity - such as buying food products at the supermarket and paying electricity and water bills - and on the other hand, continue to spend on things they see as experiential and fun, for example going to restaurants and cultural and entertainment shows. The result is a clear slowdown in the increase in spending from June to August (compared to the corresponding period in 2021), compared to the rate of growth from January to May, alongside a significant increase in the portion of spending on entertainment and pleasure in the total...
Sep 11, 2022

by Ifi Reporter
Category: Communication
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.
Sep 12, 2022
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