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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...

Encouraging data on the acceleration in the pace of apartment construction. Data from the Central Bureau of Statistics published today (Monday) show that the first quarter of 2022 was a record quarter in the rate of construction starts. The number of dwellings that began to be built in the quarter was 19,943 - an increase of 3% compared to the previous quarter and a jump of 40% compared to the corresponding quarter last year. This is the second consecutive quarter in which apartments are being built at a rate approaching 80,000 apartments per year, a record of 20 years

A day after it was revealed that it would lay off about 100 of its employees (about 2% of the workforce), Wix Company reports slightly higher revenues than expected in its reports for the second quarter of the year. The company, which developed a system for building websites, shows revenues of $345.2 million - a growth of About 9% compared to the corresponding quarter last year. Market analysts expected revenues of $344.39 million and the company itself predicted revenues of $342-346 million. Excluding exchange rate differences, revenues in the last quarter grew by 11% to the level of 349...

A week after returning to the Ministry of Communications, the current Minister, Yoaz Handel, signed a reform that put an end to the split between the supplier and the infrastructure in the Internet market. It means for consumers to create one and only one writer to purchase the services as well as to troubleshoot. The reform, which will take effect at the beginning of next year, is intended to put an end to the phenomenon of "throwing responsibility" between ISPs and infrastructure owners over malfunctions in an effort to raise the standard of service in the industry. It is also expected...

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...

The average wage in public bodies increased slightly in 2020 compared to the increase in the average wage in the economy, but still senior officials in several public bodies earned tens of thousands of shekels a month each - much more than the average wage. Women fill only about 30% of the positions of high-ranking officials and wage earners. This is compared to 27% in the years 2015 to 2019. Gender pay gaps decreased by 0.7% in the five years to 2020 and by only 0.1% in 2020 and stood at 35% in favor of men's wages. Excluding officials and high-wage earners, the gender pay gap was 22%.

Partner and Pelephone appealed a fine imposed on them by the Consumer Protection Authority and will receive back the amount of the fine plus court costs, totaling NIS 968,000 - the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ruled in an appeal filed by the two companies. This is a monetary sanction imposed on the companies in January 2017, claiming to mislead consumers in various publications where consumers were invited to join them and receive advanced "Generation 4" mobile services, free of charge. The Authority claimed that during the relevant period for publications that began in July 2014, the...

A 68% jump in the number of new dwellings sold in September this year, which stood at 3,459 compared to 2,050 sold last September; This emerges from data from the annoying bureau of statistics published on Thursday. According to the data in total in the third quarter of 2020 (July-September 2020), 10,140 new apartments were sold - a jump of about 19% compared to the corresponding quarter last year, in which 8,467 new apartments were sold. The CBS data is similar to the analysis of the chief economist at the Ministry of Finance, Shira Greenberg, published on Sunday. According to Greenberg,...

According to the preliminary investigation of the Israeli spacecraft Beresheet's landing maneuver, following an IMU malfunction a command was uploaded to the spacecraft. This led to a chain of events in the spacecraft, which turned off the main engine and prevented proper engine activation. The SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) team continues to investigate what occurred during the mission. In the coming weeks, final results of the investigation will be released

The new Minister of Transportation, Miri Regev, met earlier today (Sunday) with senior officials of the Ministry of Transportation and Israel Railways to discuss work on the railroads on Saturday. Regev said that on Shabbat only work related to supervision will be carried out, and asked to present additional solutions to reduce work on the track on Shabbat. Last night, those around the minister also claimed that despite the request of the minister of housing and Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf to stop the works on Shabbat, they will continue.