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The Ministry of Environmental Protection imposed a monetary sanction on the port of Ashdod under the Prevention of Sea Pollution from Land-Based Sources Law, in the amount of NIS 10,649,240 million. This amount will be deposited into the Marine Pollution Prevention Fund within 60 days

Bezeq International employees signed an agreement with management, according to which over 300 employees will leave the company in the next five years - about 25% of the company's employees. According to the agreement, the cost of the workers' provision will reach more than NIS 50 million. The management will increase the various welfare payments and grant a special bonus to the employees on the basis of the cooperation between the subsidiaries. These are agreements for the voluntary retirement of hundreds of employees. The cuts in Bezeq International are made against the backdrop of a...

The Supreme Court ruled that claims filed by Israelis against Facebook will be clarified in Israeli courts, even though the agreement to join the site states that they will be found in a court in California, the United States. The court accepted the attorney general's position that the "Californian" clause in the accession agreement that determines the place of jurisdiction is a depriving condition in a uniform contract and therefore should be annulled. However, the court ruled that the claims would be clarified according to American law, because it has not been proved that the very fact of...

David Libi, a 19-year-old from the Hava Mitzpe Michal outpost in the West Bank, was killed on Thursday after stepping on an explosive device in the northern Gaza Strip. Libi, an engineering equipment operator working for the Ministry of Defense through a private contractor, is the third non-enlisted civilian contractor to die in Gaza since the start of the war

The budget pit, which will reach NIS 8 billion this year, is expected to double in 2020 to NIS 17.4 billion. The Finance Ministry updated cabinet ministers on the alarming figures ahead of Sunday's cabinet meeting to discuss the severe budget deviation and steps to reduce it. The government will be asked to authorize the Treasury to take the first immediate step to deal with the huge deficit expected in 2019

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon announced that they agreed to continue subsidizing kindergartens operating in the afternoon at the end of the school day, in the coming school year. The proposal will be submitted for Cabinet approval. The two claimed that a financial source was found for the continuation of the subsidy, but did not provide explanations as to the effect of the subsidy on the expected cuts in government ministries, in light of the growing deficit. Attorney General Mandelblit confirmed on Sunday that the budgets of government ministries...

Income inequality in Israel increased in 2018 after three years of decline - according to data on households' expenditure and income published by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday. According to the data, the Gini income inequality index rose to 0.355 points (up from 0.351 points in 2017). The figures also show that the most significant increase was recorded in the average health expenditure of an average family in 2018, and that the share of Israel's top decile in net monetary income increased, approaching a quarter of the total income of the deciles. In the lower three deciles,...

A 71-year-old Binyamina resident was killed on Sunday evening after being swept away by his vehicle in a flood on the river street in the colony. He was located about two hours later, and the MDA team determined his death. The firefighters who arrived at the scene rescued the vehicle with the help of tractors, where they found the man breathless. Police said the circumstances of the vehicle's fall into Nahal Tse'asah, a channel of Nahal Taninim passing through the town, are being investigated . MDA paramedic Natalie Bennett said: "Extinguishing forces have been working for a long time with...