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A series of fires across the country, which have been triggered by heavy and extreme heat loads throughout the country, caused damage estimated at millions of shekels, but hardly caused casualties. Near the Ramat Pinkas neighborhood in Or Yehuda, a fire broke out in an open area. Five houses were set on fire as a result of the fire near Ramat Pinkas. There was a concentration of effort to evacuate the population from the dangerous lines, and the firefighting forces exerted great efforts on several fronts. The Technion campus was partially evacuated following a fire that raged in Nesher

HOT company will receive a discount for using Bezeq infrastructure for laying out optical fibers: the Ministry of Communications published a hearing for public comments, in which it proposes to immediately reduce the use of Bezeq passive infrastructure by telecommunications companies from NIS 446 per kilometer per month to NIS 250 per kilometer per month, a reduction of approx. -44% At the same time, the reduced price charged for access service to passive infrastructure that is in the Timretz area or that is in the infrastructure in an area beyond the Timretz area, NIS 107 per km or NIS...

Coalition Chairman Idit Silman has decided to resign from the coalition. The cracks were heard in the coalition for a long time. The dispute between Silman and Nitzan Horowitz over the chametz conference for hospitals. After the bomb was dropped on Wednesday by the leader of the retiring coalition, Idit Silman, the political system has three options. The first is to go to the polls - a move that is estimated to be preferred by opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the Likud. Elections will be possible if Silman is followed by another retiree from the right, who will allow her and...

2021 was a record year in the real estate market and not only in terms of prices and sales of apartments. Data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) summarizes the number of construction starts in 2021 amounted to 63,330,000 apartments - a record not observed since 1995. This is an increase Of 13% compared to 2020, when construction began on 55,990 apartments. The data are set against the background of statements by Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman on new measures to cool price increases, the launch of a new lottery for 10,000 discounted apartments funded by the government...

Just less than a month ago, Avi Gabay signed a collective bargaining agreement with the workers' committee, which his predecessor, Nir Stern, failed to advance in a few months. Gabay realized he had no choice - if he didn't rush to sign a deal, his competitors could be ahead of him and sign a merger deal and weaken Cellcom. The company offered Golan NIS 720 million (including a NIS 130 million debt waiver) and, according to market officials, is expected to return the investment in three years. Cellcom is actually streamlining. Today it spends tens of millions on customer recruitment and...

Due to the peak data in the mortgage market, the Bank of Israel announced today that it has finally decided not to allow a loan to be used as equity to purchase an apartment. At the same time, it will be possible to take such a loan as a bridging loan for housing developers, until the end of the process of selling their existing property. That is, this prohibition will be particularly relevant to investors who are in fact leveraging an existing asset to purchase an additional asset. It should be noted that the activity of investors in the real estate market has increased in recent months,...

The average monthly gross income per employee from hired employment was NIS 10,584 in 2018, up 4% compared to 2017. Median income per employee is NIS 7,988, a real increase of 6.3% compared to 2017, according to data released on Monday by the Central Bureau of Statistics. . The average number of working hours per week is 40.9, and the average gross income per working hour is NIS 61.7. According to gender, 51.6% of employees are men and 48.4% are women. The average gross income per employee male is NIS 12,498 per month (and NIS 66.3 per hour). The average gross income per hired woman is...

Two more Israelis were diagnosed with Corona virus - the Health Ministry announced Friday. The two, aged 50, are residents of the center of the country who are currently living in isolation. One turned on February 27 from Madrid, Spain, and the other returned on March 4 from Zurich, Switzerland. As a result, the number of infected persons in Israel rose to 19. The Ministry of Health announced that the exact flight numbers and locations where the patients were staying will be published later. Yesterday, two other patients became aware of the infection. One of them, a tourist bus driver from...

The insurance volume of Israeli companies investing in African countries has so far reached $ 700 million, and the Ministry of Economy and Industry has decided to double the budget for Israeli companies, through which they will be able to double the volume of their deals. Asha will provide guarantees to a wide range of African countries. Kenya ($ 150 million), Nigeria ($ 105 million), Uganda ($ 70 million), Ethiopia ($ 33 ​​million), Cameroon ($ 60 million), and others