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A business delegation from India, the fastest growing economy in the world, arrived in Israel. This week, the "India Week in Israel" events are being held under the leadership of the Innovation Authority, the Indian Embassy in Israel and the Foreign Trade Administration of the Israeli Ministry of Economy in New Delhi. During the events, a delegation of 30 CEOs and chairmen of leading companies in the Indian high-tech and technology industry arrived in Israel for a cooperation conference in the field of innovation

The Investment Authority of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, will implement a program to integrate interns from the Arab population in the industrial and high-tech sectors. The program is designed to help employers from the high-tech industry integrate students and graduates of higher education institutions in Israel from the Arab population, including Druze, Bedouin and Circassians studying technological subjects. The course is intended for corporations from all over the country dealing with elite technologies, companies in the pharmaceutical industry, electronic components,...

The State Comptroller published a harsh report on the state of public transportation, stating that the density of traffic on Israel's roads is 3.5 times higher than the average in the OECD countries. Over the years, the use of public transportation has remained small, and the use of private cars has increased. State Comptroller Yosef Shapira described the state of transport in a special and severe criticism report on the crisis and harshly criticized the conduct of the Ministry of Transportation.

The chairman of the permits committee, retired judge Euni Habash, resigned 10 days ago. The committee operates on behalf of the State Comptroller's Office. Judge Habash told his associates that he felt "political pressure" put on the committee he headed. Last month, the committee rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's second request to authorize him to raise $ 2 million in donations from two of his close associates, cousin Natan Milikovsky and businessman Spencer Partridge, to finance his legal representation. According to a statement sent by the State Comptroller's Office to the...

Israel Natural Gas Lines Company inaugurated the natural gas pipeline to Jerusalem in a ceremony attended by Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz and Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Leon.This is an 18-inch, 34-kilometer-long pipe, costing NIS 290 million. The construction was done in two sections. The first part, the western one, starts close to the Sorek interchange on the Trans-Israel Highway and the second begins at the Zion Railroad station near Sha'ar Hagai. It ends at Beit Zayit. Only when this facility is completed can the gas flow to factories and consumers in the Jerusalem area. In 2020, the...

After counting ninety-four percent of the votes in the elections - equality in seats between Likud and blue and white: thirty-five each. The ultra-Orthodox bloc has sixty-five seats, compared with fifty-five for the center-left bloc and the Arab parties The ultra-Orthodox parties - Shas and United Torah Judaism - received eight seats each, the Labor Party and the New Tal list, six each for the right-wing parties and Yisrael Beiteinu, five for Meretz and four for each. Ten o'clock at night is sixty-seven percent and nine-tenths. The prime minister and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu...

Harsa - a manufacturer of toilets, sinks and other sanitary equipment from the Hamat group - will close its doors on Monday, April 29. The workers of the 70-year-old factory were not allowed to return to work at the end of the Passover holiday. The workers' committee said that the factory management hired a security company to prevent the workers from entering their work place after a two-week intensive vacation. "The day is a very difficult day for you and me. It has been eight years since I acquired the Hamat Group, during which I tried with all my might to improve it and bring it to...

In light of the deterioration of the security situation in the south of the country, the Manufacturers Association of Israel has opened a special emergency room in the settlement of Omer, which will provide 24 hours a day to the southern industrialists in order to help them pass the period of combat and to function optimally according to the Home Front Command's security instructions. 250 factories employing some 60,000 workers, within a radius of about 40 kilometers from Gaza. The war room will provide a continuous response to all the needs and problems of the factories following the...

Israel kicked off its 71st birthday celebration in the usual Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) style with cookouts, aerobatic shows, silly string, torch-lighting ceremonies and festive fireworks across the nation. In only seven decades, Israel has proven it’s possible to do the impossible at home and abroad, whether greening deserts with world-leading technological knowhow, rescuing people in distress in distant lands, or sending the smallest-ever spacecraft to the moon. Last year, ISRAEL21c brought you a timeline, “70 Years of Israeli achievement,” and a fantastic companion film, “70...

The online revolution reaches Zara in Israel: The Spanish fashion giant is opening an online store in Israel. It began running on Wednesday through the app and on Thursday through an online site. The Spanish retailer will provide its customers with home deliveries within three to six days at a cost of NIS 30, or free delivery of more than NIS 200. Zara also allows customers to collect the products ordered from 10 of its 25 physical stores. The app shows women's, men's and children's Zara brand only. Zara has other brands it intends to sell online, among others, Pull and Bear and Barshke