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The house price index for August-September rose by 0.1% compared with the July-August index, followed by housing prices in the last 12 months, a decrease of 1.9%. New home prices fell by 0.6 percent in August-September and the rate of government-sponsored transactions (occupant price and target price) was 34.1 percent

The economic and bureaucratic situation of the State of Israel is not encouraging: The 2018 World Economic Forum's (WEF) 2018 International Competitiveness Index reveals that Israel has fallen to 20th place in the International Competition Index from 16th place in the past year. This is a new competitive index - GCI 4.0, which includes weights and other parameters that were not taken into account in past indices. The top five places in the new competitiveness index were the United States, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and Japan respectively, while the last and least respected (140) in the...

Medtronic is acquiring full ownership of Israeli company Mazor Robotics in a $ 1.6 billion deal, the two companies announced overnight. The deal gives Robotics a value of $ 1.6 billion, and after deducting the shares it has acquired from Medtronic in Mazor to date, it will pay $ 1.34 billion. Mazor Robotics Israel, managed by Uri Hadomi, was founded in 2001 and develops robotic guidance systems for spine surgery. The company has more than 200 different systems, and holds more than 50 patents worldwide.

all employees of the health professions in Israel, including physiotherapists, dietitians, speech therapists, occupational therapists, hygienists, genetic counselors and art and art therapists will return to work. It will affect 5,000 workers in hospitals and in the community, employed by the Ministry of Health, Clalit Health Services, Meuhedet Health Fund, Hadassah Hospital, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, mental health centers and other institutions. It was decided at the end of a hearing in the Tel Aviv District Labor Court.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) in Israel rose by 0.7% in August 2025 compared to July, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics. Over the past 12 months (August 2024 to August 2025), inflation stood at 2.9%, within the Bank of Israel’s target range (1%–3%), but still reflecting ongoing pressures on the cost of living

The accidents at the construction sites. On Thursday, two workers were killed in two different accidents in Beer Yaakov and Lachish. Even before those accidents, the number of fatalities for 2019 has peaked compared to previous years, at this time the number of fatalities this year is 45 compared to 39 in 2018 and 36 in 2017. The increase in the number of accidents continues despite the fact that several measures were supposed to have been taken that were intended to reduce the extent of the injured and killed, but in practice the safety issue has not yet penetrated to the level of the...

2019 will continue the downward trend in construction starts. Although in the first three quarters of the year construction starts were 4% higher than those recorded in the corresponding three quarters in 2018, the data is very far from the 2016 peak data, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) data released today. Following much criticism of major updates on construction startup publications, the CBS changed its flow rate, and as of January 2019, they are based on the Bureau's Field Survey only, as opposed to previous years, so comparing 2019 data to its predecessors is a...

Legislative amendment to fight construction accidents is expected to receive a green light from the Justice Department soon. This memorandum of law will allow the Ministry of Housing to revoke a license from a contractor whose site caused a fatal accident that resulted in death The bill will include a work stoppage on all contractor job sites. The bill's memorandum, drafted by Construction and Housing Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton (all of us), is already provoking anger among contractors who fear the severe crackdown. According to estimates by officials, the Justice Department is expected to...