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CloudWize and Kyndryl Israel announced today that the companies have entered into a strategic partnership to help bring cloud security and compliance to more businesses in Israel, across the CEE&EM region and globally. The agreement brings together CloudWize, an innovative agentless cloud solution that enables companies to have maximum cloud security and compliance from architecture design to runtime and Kyndryl's global leadership in IT infrastructure services to help the companies across the industries to unlock business value and strengthen growth in a secure and compliant way

The struggle of the Lahavim plant in Galilee, which Pratt & Whitney wants to close and lay off 900 workers, is intensifying. The parent company wishes to transfer the activity of the distributor to the United States. The storm of layoffs and the closing of the plant in the north reached the finance committee in the Knesset: Martin Beaulieu, the vice president for operations strategy at the American company claimed that they did not find a buyer and that the plant lost 700 million dollars and will continue to lose until the closure. The Histadrut representative rebuffed him: "They want to...

Two construction workers in their 30s were killed on Monday afternoon and another worker was moderately injured as a result of collapsing scaffolding at a construction site on Rakfat Street in Givat Ze'ev. The police began examining and collecting evidence and findings at the scene and representatives of the Ministry of Labor were called to the scene to investigate the case. The incident was reported at MDA's 101 hotlines in the Jerusalem area at 12:04 p.m. Scaffolding on an exterior wall of a 12-story construction site collapsed and three workers were trapped under them. Medium to...

1 out of every 5 Israelis experienced surveillance or harassment on social networks in the last year; In the past year, every fifth Israeli experienced curses and hatred aimed at him online; 1 out of every 10 Israelis has experienced the distribution of intimate or embarrassing photos of him without his permission; The Israelis state that the two groups most attacked in the networks are the ultra-orthodox society and the Arab society; Israelis who have been exposed to online violence state that Facebook is the most violent social network (82%), followed by a wide margin by WhatsApp (26%)...

The contractors sold only 1,819 apartments in October, which is a 68% decrease compared to October 2021 and a 34% decrease compared to sales in September - according to data published by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is the lowest volume of sales recorded in the industry since the corona virus shutdown in April 2020

Senior officials in the high-tech industry called on the future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday evening not to allow the enactment of the laws discussed in the last days in the Knesset, due to its "devastating" consequences for the economy and the high-tech industry in particular. According to them, "the undermining of confidence in the Israeli justice system and, as a result, in Israeli democracy, may discourage the investors who drive the growth of the industry." "Legal stability is a necessary condition for international investors and helps them invest in certain...

The slowdown in the economy has also reached the number of vacancies which continues to decrease and with it, the demand for high-tech people also drops. The number of vacancies decreased from 144,700 in October to 141,200 in November (seasonally adjusted data). This is a decrease of nearly 10,000 jobs from the record of 151,400 last April. Particularly affected was the demand for software engineers (programmers), which fell by 45% from last March

A slowdown in the pace of residential construction starts. According to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, in the third quarter of 2022 (July to September), the construction of 14,675 apartments began. This is a decrease of about 5% compared to the corresponding quarter in 2021 when the construction of 15,482 apartments began. Compared to the second quarter of 2022 when the construction of 17,293 apartments began, this is already a 15% drop in the rate of construction starts. In fact, the figures for the third quarter of 2022 are the lowest recorded since September 2021

Six years after the police investigation was opened against Benny Steinmetz and businessmen Avi Lev-Ran and Michal Noy on suspicion of bribing senior government officials in Guinea in exchange for mining rights worth billions of dollars, it ends today with a comprehensive settlement - on the criminal and tax levels. According to the overall settlement, the prosecutor's office will not file an indictment against the three, in exchange for a civil forfeiture of NIS 23 million from Lev-Ran, Noy and another company. Steinmetz's share of the settlement will amount to NIS 17 million.

After a long and tedious process, which included going through and debating every comma and line of the 4,155-page document, the US House of Representatives joined the Senate in approving next year's US budget of $1.7 trillion on Friday. Members of Congress entered a frantic last-minute race to pass the budget Before Christmas, while the storm winds are raging outside and across the US the lowest temperatures have been recorded in years