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Germany is expected to purchase unmanned aerial vehicles from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) worth 1 billion euros, the Defense News website reported. The deal was suspended several months ago due to political opposition in Germany, but according to the report, the resistance was removed and progress is currently being made in completing the deal, which could greatly improve IAI's situation Germany does not currently manufacture unmanned aircraft and should start producing them within two years. The deal in question is supposed to be an interim solution. These aircraft are manufactured...

The coverage of Netanyahu's speech on US news websites attracted Iranian talkbacks who rushed to flood the network's discussions with lies in an attempt to influence public opinion. Spot.IM, the Israeli company whose products are conducted by users of the largest news sites in the US, located about 130 Iranian surfers who conducted discussions through the company's products and whose activity is intended to spread lies in the context of Netanyahu's speech.

The rapid growth that characterized Israel's exports in 2017 continues in 2018. Exports of goods excluding diamonds rose by 6.5% in the first quarter of the year compared with the first quarter of last year, and totaled $ 12.6 billion, according to an analysis conducted by the Economic Unit of the Export Institute and the Ministry of Economics. Exports of goods, including diamond exports, totaled $ 14.5 billion, a 1.6% increase over the same period last year.

The Ministry of Environmental Protection imposed a monetary sanction on the port of Ashdod under the Prevention of Sea Pollution from Land-Based Sources Law, in the amount of NIS 10,649,240 million. This amount will be deposited into the Marine Pollution Prevention Fund within 60 days

History at the Electric Corporation. After 22 years of negotiations, the reform was finalized. However, the details of which have not yet been signed. Only the chapter on workers and the retirement of about 1,800 workers was agreed upon and signed. About 1,000 workers have retired from the electricity company recently. The reform will be brought to the cabinet table and the ministers will be asked to approve it. During the eight years of the reform, the IEC will sell five old sites to private hands, with a total capacity of about 4,000 megawatts - about half of its production capacity. In...

Bombardier, the Canadian railway and aircraft giant, held a conference for the local aerospace industries at the Manufacturers' Association in Tel Aviv, in order to find new collaborations for the purpose of realizing reciprocal purchasing and increasing its investments in Israel. The conference was held in cooperation with the Industrial Cooperation Authority of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, the Manufacturers' Association and the Israel Export Institute

The IDF's experiments in intercepting fire-kite-flying by means of multicopter drone proved to be a failure because of the low success rates, but the army continues to use the drones against the fire-kites. Kite terror from the Gaza Strip continues despite the calm: 12 firefighting teams and four firefighting planes operated in the Carmia reserve to take over the flames in a major fire that broke out due to a firebomb that was launched from the Gaza Strip. It is estimated that 2,000 to 3,000 dunams of fire were burned in the reserve area.