Government

The Knesset chose Matanyahu Engelman as the next State Comptroller. Engelman, the candidate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was elected by a majority of 67 Knesset members, compared with 48 who voted for the opposition candidate Giora Romm. Five MKs abstained. When the results of the vote were announced, Netanyahu called Engelman and congratulated him on his election to the post. "People were impressed by your integrity and professionalism," Netanyahu told Engelman. "You will do a great job and I am sure that it will work for the benefit of the state and for the benefit of the...

The Ministry of Finance published a memorandum to increase the retirement age for women, now 62 years. According to the proposal, this is a gradual move that will take place over a period of 11 years, starting next April. In the first three years, the retirement age will be raised at a rate of 4 months per year, and for the rest of the years - 3 months per year. Then the retirement age will be linked to life expectancy when the retirement age for women can not exceed that of men. The first stage in which the retirement age will be raised in 4 months per year will apply to the children born...

The Ministry of Transport published the identity of the winners in four service taxis in Beer Sheva, Ramle-Lod, the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv and Netanya. The use of the multi-line on these lines will only be possible on weekdays, but taxi service operators will be able to offer travel on Shabbat as well. All in all, there are dozens of service taxi lines, half of which are new lines, which will begin operating within a few months. In each of these plans, dozens of municipal and interurban taxis will be operated, doubling the number of taxis in these areas. Passengers in service taxis...

43 employees were killed in work accidents in the first half of 2019 - an increase of 30% over the same period last year, and the highest figure for this period in the last five years. Kav La'Oved, a report published by the Kav LaOved organization, is working to eradicate the scourge of work accidents in general and in the construction industry in particular. The main cause of fatal work accidents is falls from heights - with about 40% of these accidents. The second factor is the fall of heavy objects - with 26% of the fatal accidents, and the third of the injuries to vehicles (18%) most...

The Chinese-Israeli MRC Group, consisting of China's China Harbor and Israel's Mivtach Shamir and Rafak, is the winner of the giant tender for the purchase of the Alon Tavor power plant. The company beat six competitors and will purchase the station for NIS 1.9 billion. This is the first time a Chinese company has been entering conventional electricity generation in Israel. The station is supposed to be transferred to the group until the end of 2019. There is a large gap between the price offered by the group and the estimated shelf price of the station, which is around NIS 800 million....

Demonstrations of Ethiopian Jews and their supporters in the wake of the death of Salomon Tekka from the shooting of a policeman in Haifa deteriorated on Tuesday evening to vandalism, anarchy, police and property damage. The riots continued all night. Rioters threw stones at a bus in Petach Tikvah and its windows were smashed, police cars in Kiryat Malachi were stoned, and policemen were attacked after midnight in Afula. Following riots on Route 431, near the Ramle junction, 10 wounded were evacuated to Assaf Harofeh Hospital, nine of whom were released to their homes. In the disturbances...

The US-Israel Binational Fund for Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) recently approved a $ 8.2 million investment in nine joint ventures between Israeli and US companies. In addition to the grants, the projects will receive financing from the private sector, so that the total investment in the projects will reach $ 20 million. The BIRD Foundation works to encourage cooperation between Israeli and American companies in the various fields of technology

In 2018, the Ministry of Education continued to budget the religious high school students at huge sums and to discriminate against secular and Arab students, according to the ministry's data on how the ministry distributed the budget. The new Minister of Education, Rafi Peretz, who has been prominent in his recent recommendation to the lesbian and gay community to undergo conversion treatments from their sexual orientation, sought to increase the budgets allocated to religious students even more. The Ministry of Education prided itself on narrowing the gaps, but such a policy is not...

A festive event marking Israeli innovation was held at the UN headquarters in New York at the end of the week, with diplomats and government representatives from around the world, UN officials and representatives of Jewish and pro-Israel organizations among the guests exposed to innovative Israeli technologies in the fields of water, agriculture and social issues. The purpose of the event, which was initiated by the Israeli delegation to the UN, was to connect local industry with governments and senior officials from the international community at the UN headquarters during a high-level...

Severe incident on the border of the Gaza Strip: Hamas terrorist who infiltrated into Israeli territory south of the Gaza Strip fired at IDF fighters and was killed by soldiers. He said the terrorist was armed with a Kalashnikov rifle and several grenades. The IDF rushed into the area of ​​the Golani Battalion in charge of the decree and declared an alert in advance following the identification of the terrorist by observation. At around 2am, observant people in the yearning area identified the approaching of a suspect to the fence and, accordingly, an appropriate security procedure was...