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Retail giant Amazon is finally making its first move in Israel, and e-mails to Israeli sellers and invites them to start selling products through it. On the night between Monday and Tuesday, Israeli suppliers began to receive an official request from Amazon inviting them to start selling products through it. This marks the beginning of Amazon's official activity in Israel, but at this stage it is not exactly the full activity

Israel's revenues from natural gas royalties witnessed a substantial surge during the first half of 2023, reaching over NIS 1 billion. This marks a remarkable 23% increase compared to the same period in the previous year. reports the Natural Resources Administration at the Ministry of Energy. A significant contributor to this impressive growth was the initiation of natural gas production from the Harish reservoir in October 2022. This addition not only led to a boost in gas production volumes by approximately 13%, with 12.32 billion cubic meters (BCM) produced in the first half of 2023...

Blue and white chairman and deputy prime minister Bemi Gantz on the last day of the 23rd Knesset, the leadership he so desperately lacked during his tenure in the Netanyahu government. He preferred the good of the state over his personal good and agreed that the government would approve a continuing budget. The Finance Ministry's bill according to which the follow-up budget for 2021 will not be based on the last approved budget - for 2019. According to the decision, another NIS 100 billion can be spent, which means that instead of a NIS 100 billion cut in ministry expenses, the cuts will be...

At a recent press conference following the release of Check Point's quarterly report, Gil Shvid, one of the founders of Check Point and its longstanding CEO, announced his departure from the CEO position after more than 30 years of service. Shvid will be stepping into the role of chairman, emphasizing his commitment to remain actively involved in the company's future endeavors

99,079 Israelis received their third vaccine over the weekend. A total of 1,365,887 received the booster dose. This is according to data published tonight (Saturday) by the Ministry of Health. In addition, 7,249 Israelis received the first dose of the vaccine. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 6.7% of those aged 40 to 49 have already received the third vaccine dose, as have 34% of those aged 50 to 59, 58.5% of those aged 60 to 69, 74.6% of those aged 70 to 79, 70.4% of those aged 80 to 89 and 65.1 % Among people aged 90 and over. At the same time, there was an increase over the...

Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit did call on the High Court to reject the petition of the Movement for Quality of Government, which demanded the declaration of the prime minister's imprisonment due to his criminal trial, but the saga of the imprisonment is just beginning. , Which may lead to imprisonment. The adviser pointed to two main parameters that could lead to Netanyahu's imprisonment. The first parameter: "functional" fortification resulting from his involvement in the trial against him. "The possibility cannot be ruled out categorically that in exceptional concrete...

The average mortgage amount reached a peak of NIS 975,000 in March - another step up in mortgage activity, which reflects the increase in apartment prices and the leverage of bank customers, in light of the rise in apartment prices. This, is without a corresponding increase in the equity of apartment buyers. Investors finance the increase in total mortgages by increasing repayments and increasing the average duration of the mortgage repayment. Data from the Bank of Israel show that 13,780 mortgages were taken out in March - an increase of 15.5% compared with February, which mainly reflects...

According to data from the Bank of Israel, in June the public borrowed NIS 11.588 billion. This is a jump of about 93% compared to June last year, when only last month (May) broke an all-time record when mortgages were taken out in the amount of NIS 9.47 billion. Since the beginning of the year, the public has taken out mortgages amounting to NIS 51.7 billion, and assuming that mortgages continue at a similar rate, the public will take out mortgages worth more than NIS 100 billion this year, with an all-time high of more than NIS 78 billion broken last year. . The average annual...