Financial

Enterprise video solutions company Kaltura reports that it has received a purchase offer at a value of $383 million, a 27% premium over the last closing price on Wall Street. The potential buyer is a competitor of Kaltura called Panopto, which already at the beginning of June announced its intention to buy Kaltura. Earlier this month, it already put a concrete offer on the table, but Kaltura for its part only disclosed the contacts now, when the offer was improved, and more importantly - when Panopto's partner in the move, the K1 Foundation, became an interested party in Kaltura and left...

After six consecutive months of increases, fuel prices will drop sharply tonight at midnight - according to the Ministry of Energy announcement. The decrease is recorded following the drop in oil prices in the world in the last month, and after last week the Ministry of Finance published an order that expands the reduction of the excise tax on fuel to NIS per liter. The order that reserves the reduction of the excise tax on fuel will be in effect until the end of the month, after which it will be possible to extend it

The Israeli cyber giant Check Point presented its second-quarter report and managed to overtake the analysts' forecasts in the key indicators: the company's revenues jumped by 9% to 571 million dollars, and the diluted earnings per share (the key figure in this article which is Non -GAAP) was $1.64, compared to average expectations for revenues of $560 million and earnings per share of $1.62

The government price committee recommended on Wednesday evening to raise the price of supervised nurseries by a high amount of NIS 500 per month. Ynet has learned that the ministers of finance and economy will not approve the recommendation: "This is a disproportionate harm to the public of parents." Failure to raise the price may result in at least some nurseries not opening

Bezeq Group closes the second quarter of 2022 with an adjusted net profit of NIS 310 million, a moderate increase of 3% compared to the corresponding quarter in 2021. Revenues were NIS 2.23 billion, a slight increase of 1.1%. Operating profit decreased by 1.3% to NIS 463 million and EBITDA also decreased by 1.4% to NIS 921 million. The company's free flow increased significantly to NIS 359 million, compared to NIS 85 million in the corresponding quarter. Bezeq reduced the debt in the company by about one billion shekels and now it stands at 5.63 billion

The cellular company Cellcom, which operates a cell phone network, Internet and telephone services, and controls Golan Telecom, published its financial reports for the second quarter according to which the company recorded revenues of NIS 1.069 billion compared to NIS 1.003 billion in the corresponding quarter last year - an increase of 6.5%. The company's net profit in the second quarter amounts to about NIS 39 million compared to a loss of NIS 14 million in the second quarter last year. The company's operating profit in the current quarter amounted to approximately NIS 95 million...

About a month after Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David called for a consumer boycott due to the rising prices for Diplomat, Shastovitz, and Kimberly Clark, the response arrived: the employees of Kimberly Clark Israel decided to take revenge: to leave the Histadrut and move to the National Histadrut. There are about 1,000 employees

The ICL company managed by Raviv Zoler reports on a major deal - the company signed a memorandum of understanding for the supply of potash in Europe. The identity of the customer was not disclosed, but according to estimates, it is the Norwegian capital. This is an activity of 300 thousand tons per year and given the price of potash, it is a transaction with a financial scope of approximately 220-240 million dollars. This deal comes against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine war and the suspension of purchases from Russia and Belarus. Europe sanctions Russia and this may have transferred...

The CEO of Carrefour Israel, Uri Kilstein, is leading a NIS 50 million streamlining process in the company. Kilstein's presentation to the company's managers held on Sunday indicates that the plan will include layoffs, closing branches, and changing suppliers. The move is being made in a chain that is still branded under Beitan and Mega wines, in preparation for the transition to the Carrefour brand. The plan includes reducing the number of employees, currently numbering about four thousand, by 200-300 branch employees, most of whom are temporary workers and personnel workers. In addition,...

The use of credit cards abroad will soon be added to the list of products that are becoming more expensive in Israeli life: a six-year dispute between the credit card companies and the tax authority may soon end in a compromise, the consequences of which could make the fees for using credit cards abroad more expensive. In December 2016, the Tax Authority issued an assessment to the credit card companies that mainly deals with the payment of VAT for income from credit card transactions carried out abroad, as well as online purchases on websites abroad. When a customer carries out such...