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ZIM sums up a tremendous year: The sharp rise in global transportation prices jumped the profit of the transportation shipping company by 787% to $ 4.65 billion in 2021, compared to $ 524 million in 2020. Zim is controlled by Idan Ofer's Canon holding company - the company ended the fourth quarter with a net profit of $ 1.71 billion, compared to only $ 366 million in the corresponding quarter - an increase of 366%

Photographed footage obtained by the press on Thursday from social media posts reveals the neglect of refugees who came from the war in Ukraine and landed at Ben Gurion Airport. Recognition, "said one lander in a video posted on Facebook." Hot here, stuffy here. " Following the documentation, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked ordered that the procedure be changed immediately and that those waiting at Ben Gurion Airport be transferred regularly to the hotel, where they will stay until a decision is made on their case. "The Minister thanked the Minister of Defense, Bnei Gantz, for his decision...

The government committee that examined the brokerage gaps concluded that the reason the Israeli consumer pays much more for fruits and vegetables is the fault of the farmers and not the marketing chains. As of 2020, the total consumption market for fruits and vegetables in Israel was NIS 29.1 billion per year. Of this amount, the volume of consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables was about NIS 24.7 billion. According to the results of the joint government committee for the director general of the Ministry of Economy and Industry, Dr. Ron Malka, the director general of the Ministry of...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is consulting with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz and senior officials of his ministry following the increase in infection rates. The discussion presented the morbidity data in Israel as well as the morbidity situation in the world, with an emphasis on the focal points of the outbreak in China and Hong Kong. The discussion presented the information currently available on the BA2 strain and the combined strain of the Omicron. At the end of the discussion, it was decided that the obligation to wear masks in closed spaces would continue at this stage and be...

A new era began tonight in the financial world. After a long period in which most countries around the world had a particularly low level of interest rates, the US Federal Reserve raised the interest rate from 0 to 0.25% - to 0.25% to 0.5%, for the first time since December 2018. Despite previous estimates that the war in Ukraine could delay interest rate hikes - high inflation, resulting from rapidly growing consumption as the Corona crisis subsided, overcame the war and led to the beginning of US interest rate hikes. The implication of raising interest rates tonight in the leading...

In the coming days, the Ministry of Defense will purchase powerful laser-based systems for intercepting rockets and mortar shells. Elbit, which is responsible for the production of the laser transmitter, and Rafael, which manufactures the system, recently announced that they have the required capacity to begin production of an operational system within three years. The air and are expected to operate in the Gaza Envelope. When the Israeli defense industry began to develop laser interception capability a few years ago, it faced several technological challenges: First, it had to produce a...

Israel is among the ten happiest countries in the world, according to the World Happiness Report published today, this is the tenth year. Israel was ranked ninth in the ranking, compared to 11th place in 2021 and 14th place in 2020. Finland is the happiest country in the world for the fifth year in a row in the ranking, where more than 150 countries are ranked. The ranking is published by a body called the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and is based on data from a Gallup global survey, along with other variables such as per capita GDP and life expectancy. Finland's...

The big lotteries on discounted apartments are back this week. On Sunday, registration opens for a large raffle of about 10,000 discounted apartments in 150 different projects in 31 localities across the country, in the north, in the south and also in the center. The lottery comes after a long period in which large lotteries for discounted apartments were not held under government housing programs, for several reasons, including political instability, government turnover and housing programs, and, of course, bureaucracy. The current big lottery is the first in the new "Target Price"...

Sunday, when the leader of the ultra-Orthodox community, Rabbi Kanievsky, will be laid to rest, becomes one of the days when the State of Israel descends to an unprecedented low. The entire Gush Dan, which includes the cities of Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Ramat Gan and the cities of the Sharon, will be blocked and it seems that the Israeli economy will lose billions of shekels tomorrow. The State of Israel does not know how to deal with about a million mourners who want to attend a funeral that will take place in a small cemetery in Bnei Brak. Each road number 4, one of the most...

2021 was a record year in the real estate market and not only in terms of prices and sales of apartments. Data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) summarizes the number of construction starts in 2021 amounted to 63,330,000 apartments - a record not observed since 1995. This is an increase Of 13% compared to 2020, when construction began on 55,990 apartments. The data are set against the background of statements by Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman on new measures to cool price increases, the launch of a new lottery for 10,000 discounted apartments funded by the government...