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The long queues at Ben Gurion Airport where the Israelis stood during the week of Passover are also reflected in the data: in April this year, 685.6 thousand passenger departures were recorded abroad, close to the numbers before the corona eruption in 2019, when 798.7 thousand passengers left the country. On the other hand, despite a significant recovery, the increase in inbound tourism is still far from the data before the crisis and stands at about half of April 2019. Due to the Corona restrictions in 2020 as a whole, 887.1 thousand foreign arrivals to Israel were recorded, and in 2021...

The Bank of Israel estimates that the government's decisions to move to a stricter closure, which will reduce attendance at workplaces and completely close jobs that receive an audience and the education system, will entail a cost of NIS 3.5-3 billion a week for the economy. This is in contrast to the Bank of Israel's estimate of the cost of the least tightened closure, which began at the end of December, which was NIS 2.5 billion a week. The new decisions join, of course, the existing restrictions on leaving the house up to a distance of 1 km, cultural activities, banquet halls, etc

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,...

The Israeli mortgage market continued its upward trend in August, with total mortgages reaching NIS 8.36 billion, according to Calcalist estimates. This marks a 19.2% increase compared to August 2023 and a 32% rise compared to the 12-month average of NIS 6.32 billion

Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Wednesday evening his intention not to run in the upcoming elections. His office said Bennett would remain in office as an alternate prime minister after the rotation took place. In a special statement he later made from the Knesset, Bennett announced that "now is my time to step back a little and look at things from the outside." He thanked his political partners, who he said "stood by my side even when it was difficult," and announced that Minister Ayelet Shaked would take over the leadership of the right-wing party. Ynet broadcast the...

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 Dor Alon Group, which owns the AM: PM and Alonit mini-markets, has launched a new supermarket chain called Extra Market in the TLV mall in Tel Aviv. The chain places emphasis on pastries, meat and fresh fish, and this is an urban chain, but the group insists that the prices are fair. "We are not an expensive chain. This is not the concept, this is not the goal," the group's CEO Oded Golan told Ynet. "We have 12,000 numbers. We are not open 24/7 like AM: PM, and we are cheaper in my opinion than Shufersal Deal, and certainly good taste and mega in the city. "By the end of the year we...

The monthly review of the chief economist at the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg, published, reveals unsurprising data for May, when there was another increase in the purchase of apartments throughout Israel. In May, 12.5 thousand apartments were purchased, an increase of 40% compared to May 2019 and an increase of 15% compared to last April. Comparing the level of transactions in the free market last May to its counterparts in the last twenty years, it is found that this is the second highest level, and is only ahead of the level of sales in May 2013. In the market segment of new...

A research group from the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University, under the direction of Prof. Amnon Shashua, has succeeded in proving mathematically that methods leading the field of artificial intelligence can help to understand phenomena in quantum physics, "This is an exceptional event in which the leading scientific journal in physics publishes the work of researchers from another field - computer science, and we are at a turning point in which computing power and methods Modern artificial intelligence, allow cross-domain contribution, and for example will...

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...