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Gross domestic product increased by 4.8% in the first quarter of 2019 compared to the fourth quarter of 2018, according to the second estimate published by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Sunday. This increase is more moderate than the previous estimate for the first quarter published last month, which reported an increase of 5.2%. Although the Central Bureau of Statistics has revised its growth rate in the first quarter downwards, this is still an impressive figure, reflecting an increase in the economy's growth rate, by 3.8% in the fourth quarter and 3.8% in the third quarter of 2018

Elta Systems, a subsidiary and division of Israel Aircraft Industries, is acquiring 50% of the Eltam subsidiary of the MalamTeam group for NIS 42 million. The acquisition represents a step in the implementation of IAI's strategy to enter the IDF maintenance and outsourcing market in areas rich in technological equipment

The average monthly income of the upper decile is 12 times greater than the income of the lower decile - according to a report from the Ripple Center, published Wednesday, which shows an increase in income gaps between the rich and the poor. In addition, the report shows that most rental income goes to the top deciles and that the middle class in Israel is the smallest in the OECD countries. According to the report, in 2018, the average gross income of households headed by an employee was NIS 66,584 in the top decile - compared with 5,501 in the lower decile only. In the last three years,...

A class action lawsuit has been filed and approved against the Phoenix insurance company for health insurance policies issued by 2016. The scope of the claim is estimated to be NIS 125 million. This is a class action request that was filed in June 2015 and dealt with how the insurance company used to compensate policyholders who used the supplemental insurance of their health insurance fund rather than private insurance. The period during which the claim is concerned is June 2012 to June 2015. By 2016, private health insurance policies included a mechanism that would incentivize...

Dudi Ezra, the controlling owner of the Neto Holdings group and chairman of the group, was arrested by the tax authority on suspicion of smuggling more than 475,000 euros abroad. After being brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Monday, he was released on restrictive conditions. The request for arrest and release on bail submitted by the Tax Authority against Ezra shows that the Jerusalem Customs and VAT Investigations Department, in cooperation with the customs inspectors at Ben Gurion Airport's passenger hall, is conducting an investigation against Ezra on suspicion of smuggling...

Captain Noam Ravid, 23, from Shaare Tikva, and Sergeant Yahli Sharor, 20, from Omer, were killed on Saturday during an IDF operation in Rafah. The two soldiers, members of the elite Yahalam unit of the Combat Engineering Corps, were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated while they were clearing a booby-trapped shaft