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The CEO of the public broadcasting corporation "Kan", Eldad Koblenz, is leaving his position after seven years. He will be temporarily replaced by the corporation's vice president of television, Tal Freifeld. Koblenz was due to end his term in March 2023 but was forced to resign after a dismissal order was issued by the corporation council last month. Koblenz petitioned the Labor Court for a restraining order against his dismissal, but the president of the Jerusalem Regional Labor Court, Justice Eyal Avrahami, ruled on Thursday that the hearing procedure for Koblenz was lawful. The...

The government is expected to approve at its weekly meeting on Sunday a plan to promote and expand economic ties between Israel and Egypt. The plan was formulated following visits by the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, the Minister of Economy and the Minister of Energy to Egypt over the past year, as well as the Egyptian Foreign Minister's visit to Israel. Among the goals of the program: assistance to significantly increase long-term and broad-ranging engagements between companies, organizations and governments of the two countries; Significantly increase knowledge exports, civic...

Teva continues to sign compromises in the opioid case - which indirectly caused the deaths of 500,000 drug users in the U.S., amid addiction to these substances - that has plagued the stock in recent years. Acquired by ABBVIE -0.36% in 2019. The two companies will jointly pay $ 161.5 million. In practice, Teva will pay the state $ 75 million over a 15-year period, along with hassle and legal costs of $ 8 million. Teva will also supply the Narcan drug over a 10-year period worth $ 27 million. West Virginia has already reached agreements with Johnson & Johnson, by the way

The Monetary Committee of the Bank of Israel decided today (Monday) to raise the interest rate in the economy by 0.4 percentage points, so that the interest rate in the economy will now rise from 0.35% to 0.75%. This is the second rise in interest rates in the economy after a previous rise in April. The relatively sharp rise, contrary to the forecasts of most economists for an increase to 0.6%, signals the intention of the Bank of Israel to fight more resolutely to moderate the rate of inflation in Israel. The last time the interest rate reached 0.75% was in July 2014, about eight years ago

Hospital medical staffs work Thursday morning in a Saturday format in protest of recent cases of violence in medical centers. Protests and demonstrations are taking place in hospitals across the country with the participation of senior Ministry of Health officials. The director general of the ministry, Prof. Nachman Ash, said that this is a "difficult time", but the phenomenon is not new. "We have been dealing with it for a very long time. "In the last few months there have been a number of difficult incidents and there are a lot of small incidents that do not reach the eye of the media and...

Cellcom reported the results of the first quarter of 2022, in which it continues the positive trend and shows the highest profit in the last 20 quarters - NIS 28 million, this is the first report under the new CEO Daniel Sapir. Available foreign cash amounted to NIS 52 million, with a growth of 31,000 mobile subscribers in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, a growth of 6,000 Internet infrastructure subscribers in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter, and a growth of 2,000 TV subscribers in the first quarter compared to the previous quarter

El Al closes a consecutive sixth quarter of an increase in revenue, with the termination of the position of outgoing CEO Avigal Soreq - the company reduced its loss in the first quarter of the year to $ 66 million, compared to a loss of $ 86 million in the first quarter of 2021. Tomorrow, Soreq will officially end his position at the company, and he will be replaced by the new CEO, Dina Ben-Tal Genesia. This is in the days when El Al is dealing with employee sanctions that have also led to the cancellation of several flights

In the next five years, the Ministry of Transportation will invest about NIS 1 billion in the network of public transportation routes and bicycle paths in Netanya. This was announced by Minister of Transportation Merav Michaeli and Netanya Mayor Miriam Feierberg, after signing the agreement. The project will be completed only in 2027. In the coming year, the Ministry of Transportation and the municipality will complete the preparation, and only then will the actual work begin. The Ministry of Transportation was proud today that Netanya will be the first city in Israel to offer maximum...

Ahead of a discussion to be held Wednesday in the Knesset's Interior Committee on the lack of queues at the Population Authority last year, the PA announced that a new dedicated center will be opened next week that will add hundreds of queues a day for the issuance of temporary passports. The temporary passport center will operate in the center of the country (near the Ayalon Mall, in Bnei Brak) and will be a center for anyone who has not had time to renew a passport before their expected trip. The center will issue temporary passports for a period of two years, at the same cost as a...

The inter-ministerial pricing committee, jointly with the Ministry of Economy and Industry and the Ministry of Finance, recommended that the price of bread be permanently abolished. The issue of the removal of bread control was raised by the committee a year ago, but a hearing procedure and a final recommendation were now required - which has now been accepted. However, the required approvals have not yet been received from Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Economy Minister Orna Barbibai