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Four months after Yitzchak Abarkhan returned to Shufersal, this time as chairman, and led to the appointment of Uri Waterman as CEO of the company, in the coming weeks the two intend to lead an aggressive streamlining program for the company. Restoring the operating profitability of the food stores to a level of 3.5%-4% will require a cut of NIS 250-300 million per year in the company's operating expenses in view of the erosion of its market share

Google has started operating its servers in Israel and Partner has already started gradually connecting its customers to the company's servers, mainly DNS servers. This means: connecting to a local server and not to the servers abroad that the providers use today, which allows faster access to websites and applications (but not a higher browsing speed) as well as less congestion during peak hours. That is, the consumer will enjoy faster updates now, than through the Internet provider His

The Israeli chip company Banias Labs of Mahod Hasharon, founded by the entrepreneur and investor Avigdor Vilanz, was sold to the Canadian company Alpha wave for $240 million in cash, according to an announcement published today on behalf of the companies

The European low-cost company Wizz Air is coming to Ramon Airport and will offer Israelis direct flights from Ramon to destinations in Europe. The company will start operating two weekly flights to Vienna in Austria and Rome in Italy starting this December. The first flights are scheduled to take off on December 17

The Supreme Court ruled Sunday that opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu will be required to return money given to him and his wife by his cousin Natan Milikovski to finance their legal expenses during his tenure as prime minister. The Supreme Court explained that these funds were given in violation of the Public Service Law - known as the "Gift Law" - and therefore Netanyahu must return to the estate of his late cousin $270,000 out of the $300,000 he received from him

Most of the banks in Israel again did not pass on the full interest rate increases to citizens' deposits, the Bank of Israel published today (Sunday) a first comparison between the average interest rates given by each of the banks in Israel in practice for deposits and for credit. The data is expected to be updated once a month, thus helping the public to compare the conditions given by the various banks and, if necessary, to bargain and even switch banks. However, while the data may help customers compare, it does not present a complete picture

A record in shopping ahead of Rosh Hashanah: this year in September we spent over NIS 38.811 billion on credit cards within Israel - an increase of 21.4% compared to 2021. For comparison, in September 2021 expenditures totaling NIS 31.961 billion were recorded, according to data from the Automated Bank Services Company, which manages and develops The national credit card payment system. The data does not include online purchases from websites abroad and does not include shopping overseas

The company IBC Unlimited launched a home internet infrastructure on optical fibers that can reach a speed of up to 10 gigabytes thanks to XGS-PON technology. In the first phase, consumers will be offered a speed of up to 5 gigabytes. The move will require customers to replace end equipment (router)

The rate of population growth in Israel is harming the attempt to improve the education system. Between 2012 and 2019, the budget of the Ministry of Education increased by 67%, but the increase in the number of students eroded the increase so the budget per student increased by only 21%. This is according to the annual education report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published today (Monday) and referring to the 2019 budget data

The Consumer Protection Authority imposed a fine of NIS 5,598,720 on Domicar Ltd. (Budget Car Rental) for misleading consumers under aggravating circumstances: concealing a material detail in the transaction. It is alleged that Budget sold 93 vehicles that were used as rental vehicles, which it presented as vehicles that were used as leasing vehicles to 93 different consumers. In addition, the company published 28 cars on the company website and on the Focus website, presenting them as leasing vehicles, while in practice they were used as rental vehicles, and sometimes even as leasing...