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Tens of thousands of people gathered on Friday afternoon in Tel Aviv to celebrate the city's 21st Pride Parade. Six giant colorful trucks lead the parade participants which begins at the Lahat Promenade and will pass from Snow Street at the corner of Herbert Samuel Street to Charles Clore Garden. Crowds dance and wave the flag of pride and the flag of the trans community. Yaniv, a member of the "Pink Front", said: "We were part of the Balfour protest with the Pink, and we continue from here because there is no democracy without equality, whether it is for LGBT people, Arabs, Jews,...

Tensions between Arabs and Jews in Israel reach negative highs in two acts of Lynch in Acre and Bat Yam. In Acre, a Jewish man was beaten and seriously injured. In Bat Yam an Arab man was beaten and seriously injured. In Lod, the riots continue despite the curfew coming into effect, riots began in Bat Yam with members of "La Familia", and also in Tiberias, Haifa and Acre it was not quiet: a 30-year-old Jewish citizen was fatally injured in a lynching attempt in Acre when he was attacked with sticks and stones. MDA staff evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya. At the same...

The cessation of train traffic between Hadera and Herzliya from Wednesday night until Sunday morning significantly affected the northern residents who work in the center of the country, who had to decide this morning whether to fight traffic jams or stay home. Many residents complained about the situation, claiming they were under siege. The closures of Netanya, Netanya-Sapir, Beit Yehoshua and Caesarea-Pardes Hana are being carried out as part of an annual maintenance program, which will include upgrades and replacements of parties and devotees, whose job is to divert the train from one...

Last November, the new Shufersal ONLINE website was launched, offering a personalized customer shopping experience. On the site you can find the online mall scene where you can find a rich variety of products in the fields of electricity, electronics, home and garden furniture, textiles and home decor, BE products and cosmetics from the BE chain and more. Offers and discounts are available at the Shufersal Online website throughout November. For example, a Dyson V11 Wireless Vacuum Cleaner at NIS 1,899 (instead of NIS 2,199), Wireless Headphones Air Pods 2 iPhone at NIS 599 (instead of NIS...

"If the vaccine for Corona is available in Israel in the middle of 2021 - growth in Israel in the coming year will be relatively positive, at a rate of 4.8%. But in a continuing morbidity scenario - growth will reach only 2.2%, which is close to zero per capita growth. This first forecast, since yesterday's announcement by Pfizer about the success of its vaccine trial for Corona, was made today (Tuesday) by the chief economist at the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg. This is in the context of presenting the macroeconomic situation of Israel, against the background of the corona crisis,...

The Bank of Israel has announced a reform designed to increase information transparency and competition in the mortgage market. The new reform is expected to facilitate borrowers in three key aspects: transparency and the ability to compare, simplicity and the ability to understand and efficiency in carrying out the process. It is estimated that the reform is expected to take full effect towards the middle of 2022 and there may be further changes. The Bank of Israel actually takes competition in the banking system one step further and requires the banking system to present uniform mortgage...

The Israel Police has concluded an investigation into Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, on suspicion of allegedly exploiting his position and authority in the Ministry of Health, with the aim of improperly influencing the discretion of a variety of professionals subject to him in the ministry. Among other things, Litzman was investigated on suspicion of trying to influence a psychiatric opinion of a suspect in pedophilia. The findings of the interrogation were transferred two weeks ago to the Prosecutor's Office, which will examine whether to indict Deputy Minister Litzman. The...

A 41% increase in the number of bankruptcy applications filed from the beginning of 2020 to mid-November compared to the same period in 2019. This is according to a report by the Commissioner of Insolvency Proceedings in the Ministry of Justice, the state-responsible body for managing and supervising individual bankruptcy proceedings. Dissolution and recovery of companies and creditors' arrangements. Data reflecting an increase in bankruptcy filings indicate that following the Corona crisis, many businesses and individuals find themselves in financial turmoil and having difficulty staying...

The Jerusalem Municipality has approved three business complexes in East Jerusalem. The municipality, through the local planning and construction committee, this week approved the plan to build the business complex in Wadi Jouz, which was developed in a joint initiative with the Jerusalem and Heritage Ministry. In addition, the plan for the development of an employment area in the a-Tour neighborhood was approved for deposit, and the plan for the establishment of an employment and commercial complex in the Umm Tuba neighborhood was approved. In the Wadi Jouz neighborhood, a plan for the...

Intel on Tuesday evening at the Hot Chips Conference in Silicon Valley, USA, unveiled the first artificial intelligence chip developed in Israel. In large data centers (compared to the training phase, and to chipsets for end devices). The new chip is based on 10-inch Ice Lake cores, capable of handling 3,600 images per second, at 10 watts. Hundreds of Intel's development center employees in Haifa and the manufacturing plant in Kiryat Gat participated in the new chip development. The chip will go into production this year, but according to an Intel message, Facebook has "already announced...