Latest Articles

For the first time since October 21, more than a thousand new infections were diagnosed in Corona yesterday (Wednesday). This is according to data from the Ministry of Health published this morning. More than 60,000 corona tests were performed yesterday and the positive rate is 1.8%. The verified rate without survey tests is 2.2%. 510 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 282 of them in critical condition. 122 patients connected to respirators. The death toll since the outbreak is 2,826. The number of active patients, as defined by the Ministry of Health, also...

The Ministry of Finance's chief economist's examination of the economic situation of the victims of the economic crisis raises concerns that the mortgage repayments of tens of thousands of households who bought an apartment in the past five years and went on unpaid leave exceed half their income. Assuming a fixed and unlinked average interest rate of 3.2% for a repayment period of 30 years, it is obtained that the monthly repayment of households that purchased a first apartment in 2019 and were expelled from the Knesset amounts to NIS 3,900. Was 23% on average, and in the two lowest...

El Al lost $ 147 million in the third quarter of 2020 - the quarter that usually earns it the most money per year, compared to a profit of $ 27 million in the corresponding quarter in 2019. This huge loss is not even the most amazing thing in the company's recent financial report. Nine months into the corona crisis, as International Air Transport Organization (IAEA) forecasts for corporate losses in 2020 and 2021 become increasingly pessimistic, the company's accountants from BDO Haft still believe there is no need for a provision for even a dollar depreciation, on An aircraft fleet with a...

A 41% increase in the number of bankruptcy applications filed from the beginning of 2020 to mid-November compared to the same period in 2019. This is according to a report by the Commissioner of Insolvency Proceedings in the Ministry of Justice, the state-responsible body for managing and supervising individual bankruptcy proceedings. Dissolution and recovery of companies and creditors' arrangements. Data reflecting an increase in bankruptcy filings indicate that following the Corona crisis, many businesses and individuals find themselves in financial turmoil and having difficulty staying...

Bank Mizrahi Tefahot published the results of the third quarter of 2020 with a return on equity of 9.5% compared to 11.1% in the corresponding quarter. The net profit was NIS 387 million, despite a provision for credit losses of NIS 317 million as a result of the corona crisis. Based on the results for the quarter, the return on marketable capital is about 9.3%. Net income was NIS 387 million, compared with NIS 422 million in the corresponding quarter last year. The total profit amounted to NIS 403 million, compared with NIS 388 million in the corresponding quarter last year

The Supervisor of Banks is promoting a new outline for deferring debts in respect of consumer loans and mortgages. In the current situation a borrower who was interested in a deferral received it from the banks automatically with the help of principal payments of the debt in respect of consumer loans and mortgages. According to the outline, it appears that there will be no sweeping postponement of payments - and from now on it will be done differentially

In the past week, there has been an increase in the number of new patients and seriously ill patients, for the first time since the closure began a month and a half ago, according to a report published today (Sunday) by the National Information and Knowledge Campaign in Corona. Masks, social alienation and enforcement may increase morbidity, which has been on the rise in the past month and includes hundreds of infections daily. The report also shows that the Central Bureau of Statistics' data for October indicate a high correlation between the excess mortality in recent months, compared...

Consumer confidence in the Israeli economy continues to recover slowly: in the first half of November the index stood at minus 22%, while in the second half of October the index stood at minus 26% and in the first half of October, during the second closure, consumer confidence stood at minus 32%. This emerges from a public trust survey published by the Central Bureau of Statistics. However, the negative value of the index indicates that consumers in Israel are still cautious when it comes to economic stability. The consumer confidence index is in the range of minus 100 and plus 100. The...

Are we exposed to civil rebellion? The Azrieli Malls Group and the Melisron Malls Group (Ofer Malls) plan to open on Friday, contrary to the guidelines, the Ayalon Mall, the Kryon, the BS Grand Mall, the Petah Tikva Grand Mall and the Modiin Mall. Some chains have announced that they will open stores in order to meet the demand for winter clothing and to release inventory. Other chains such as Castro and H&M have announced that they will not open the stores in violation of the guidelines. This is despite the fact that malls undertake to maintain an outline that requires a limited number of...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit this evening (Thursday) addressed Finance Minister Israel Katz and clarified to him that "the post of Accountant General cannot be left unmanned." The minister replied that he agreed and would work for the nomination of a candidate already at the next cabinet meeting. Since the retirement of former accountant Roni Hezekiah last month, no deputy has been appointed to the position. "The role and powers of the Accountant General are of great importance in general, and in the period in which we are in particular," the ombudsman clarified, noting that in his...