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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...

The LOTTE Group, one of the five largest corporations in South Korea, with a turnover of about $ 80 billion a year and a profit of about $ 5 billion a year, is looking for investments in Israel. The owner and chairman of the fifth largest corporation in South Korea, is currently visiting the country and meets with Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen: "I welcome the arrival of the LOTTE company in Israel. The arrival of this company is indicative of the strength and quality of the Israeli market that continues to attract large companies...

In the new cemetery in Lod, seventeen-year-old Rina Schenarb, seventeen of Lod, was arrested this morning in a terror attack near the Dolev settlement in Benjamin. Hundreds accompanied her in her last way Rina Schnarb was hit by a sabotage while traveling with her father and brother near the spring of Danny. The brother, Dvir, nineteen, sustained severe wounds from shrapnel. He was analyzed this afternoon at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, and was told that his condition was stable and that his life was not in danger. The father of the family, Ethan, is hospitalized and his...

Kfar Saba and Tel Aviv are the largest cities that lead the most in the satisfaction of their residents. Jerusalem, on the other hand, remains the most indigenous to the city - according to the CBS data from the 2018 Social Survey. Local cleaning. The Social Survey is an ongoing annual survey of living and welfare conditions in Israel, conducted last year and interviewed by some 7,450 people aged 20 and over, representing about 6.5 million people. Among the topics the survey dealt with were switching between cities, commuting (i.e. getting to work and back) and satisfaction with the major...

After the disabling threats have been removed, about 2,354,000 students will return to schools and kindergartens today - and the school year will open: 168,000 first-grade students will enter the school gates for the first time, as well as 190,000 preschoolers and 333,000 preschoolers. Also, 1,074,000 elementary school students, 296,000 middle school students and 461,000 upper secondary students will be attending educational institutions today, of which 132,000 are 12th graders, who will be their last year in the education system. The students have been for almost a full month, as Tishrei...

Representatives of Israel abroad begin voting - for the second time in 5 months: 13 days before Election Day in Israel, and there are those who are already throwing a ballot. Over 5,000 Israeli voters who are abroad due to their work will elect their representatives for the 22nd Knesset. The last time they took part in the democratic process was only last April, so the elections were held for the 21st Knesset. State employees and representatives of national institutions serving abroad may elect to represent the country in which they serve. Among the voters: civil servants (including...