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Shari Arison is on her way out fron Israel. The announcement of the separation from Bank Hapoalim comes after Arison sold the controlling interest (47%) in the real estate and infrastructure company, Shikun U'Binui, to American businessman Nati Sayidoff for NIS 1.1 billion. Arison put on its shelf the additional holdings in Israel - Salt Industries, which it acquired from the Dankner family. She strives to stay with her maintenance in the American shipping company Carnival Cruise, controlled by her brother Mickey Arison

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Central Bureau of Statistics published data on the population of Israel for the past year. The data indicate that last year, which ended at the end of the Jewish callender. 8,907,000 live in Israel, of which 74.4% are Jews, 20.9% are Arab, and 4.9% are other minorities

Pelephone company has experienced four failures in its network over the last month. Yesterday, again subscribers reported a failure to issue and receive calls. "The source of the problem is the replacement of the main subscriber base of the system, basically a system in which each subscriber is listed on the Pelephone network," explained Pelephone cellular phone manager Ran Guron. "We upgraded to the HPE system, which is also the previous supplier, in a long process of preparations for a year, a month and a half upgrade, and the system worked and worked well, but since the last subscriber...

Dexia Israel Bank, which operated in recent months without a core controlling interest, becomes part of Israel Discount Bank. The two banks signed a deal according to which Discount will purchase 100% of the shares of Dexia for NIS 670 million in cash, almost identical to the shareholders' equity of the bank

Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and the head of the Federal Finance Division (FDF), Swiss Confederation Minister of Finance, Mr. Oli Morer, met in Jerusalem to discuss various financial and fiscal issues of mutual interest. The ministers met after a second round of economic dialogue in Switzerland, in which the parties identified areas of mutual interest and undertook commitments to deepen cooperation on a number of issues, including access to the market and the industry

Very good air quality was recorded on Yom Kippur in most monitoring stations of the national air monitoring system, which is supervised by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. With the advent of the holiday, concentrations of nitrogen oxides - a marker of air pollution from vehicles - drastically decreased in the transportation stations in Haifa, Gush Dan and Jerusalem. The concentrations of nitrogen oxides on Yom Kippur in the transportation stations in the large cities were between 1.0 and 12.0 parts per billion

Against the background of the difficulty experienced by the fashion industry in the past year, the Ministry of Economy has formulated steps that will help companies compete and break into new markets. The steps are based on existing plans at the Ministry and in accordance with the manufacturers of the industry

Medtronic is acquiring full ownership of Israeli company Mazor Robotics in a $ 1.6 billion deal, the two companies announced overnight. The deal gives Robotics a value of $ 1.6 billion, and after deducting the shares it has acquired from Medtronic in Mazor to date, it will pay $ 1.34 billion. Mazor Robotics Israel, managed by Uri Hadomi, was founded in 2001 and develops robotic guidance systems for spine surgery. The company has more than 200 different systems, and holds more than 50 patents worldwide.

On Friday, the Tel Aviv District Court approved the continuation of the construction work of the light rail system in Bnei Brak on shabat, one of the holiest days in Jewish calender. The court decided that the work was necessary and that the lack of it could endanger lives. On Friday evening, tens of thousands of ultra orthodox trligious residents of Bnei Brak held a mass prayer to protest. Police say several demonstrators tried to break into the light rail construcyion site but were stopped by police

Loral Space & Communications a leading space and communications company will not build the Amos 8 satellite. The Company updated that on Tuesday the deadline for payment of the advance was due, and that Caval had decided not to extend the date of payment, so that the agreement would not take effect and would be canceled. As a result, the launch agreement with Space X was also canceled. Spacecom is entitled to reimbursement of the amounts already paid to Ilan Musk's satellite company, with the exception of a certain amount that will remain in the hands of Space X