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Bezeq published its fifth report on the state of the Internet in Israel to summarize the year 2018. The report reviews the habits and behavior of Israelis in the digital era and is based on extensive research conducted by the company on the Internet in Israel, the trends that govern it and its various uses, as well as data from the company's operations and systems. The report shows that at the end of 2018 the number of Internet users in Israel stands at approximately 6.6 million. The average surfer now downloads 8GB of files per day, up 30% in just one year. 36% of the youth pay for music....

he Electra Group, controlled by Daniel and Michael Salkind, is entering the real estate sector, but not in Israel but in the US. It is acquiring two contracting companies that deal with the electro-mechanical field in New York. According to the agreements signed, Electra is acquiring 51% of the share capital of Hellman Electric and Gilston Electrical. The two companies are contractors in the field of electrical works in New York City. The total investment is estimated at NIS 155 million. Investors on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange are happy for the time being, sending Electra Group shares up 2%

Just before 2018, last year's 4 million tourist visit to Ben Gurion Airport ended this week, an 11% increase over the number of tourists who entered Israel in 2017. Direct revenues from tourism in 2018 amount to about $ 22 billion A rise of about 13% in revenues compared with the previous year According to Ministry of Tourism data, most of the countries have seen an increase in the number of entries to Israel, especially China and Russia, two countries that are in the top ten countries in incoming tourism in Israel, According to the ministry's data, in the first 11 months of the year there...

In Israel, the percentage of poor children has fallen by eight tenths of a percent, and their number is one million seven hundred and eighty thousand four hundred. This emerges from the poverty report of the National Insurance Institute for the year 2000 Among families, there was a decline of three tenths of a percentage point, due to an increase of 4 percent and 6 percent in disposable income

The Haredi Institute for Policy Studies, together with some of the leading high-tech companies in Israel and prominent figures in industry and the ultra-Orthodox sector, announced the establishment of a high-tech forum aimed at integrating the ultra-Orthodox. The goal of the forum is to train 2,500 Haredi women in computer science seminars each year and integrate them into the labor market. This is in order to improve the employment status of women from the ultra-Orthodox sector, and to meet the shortage of 15,000 engineers in the high-tech industry

The fund for insurance of natural disasters in agriculture says that the amount of compensation for weather damage to farmers increased by 25% last year compared to the previous year, amounting to NIS 250 million.ץDuring the year, Kant, a fund for the insurance of natural disasters in agriculture, was received. From over 10,000 reports of damage caused to various crops. Shmulik Turgeman, CEO of Kent: The weather is becoming more extreme and every event is causing more economic damage.

Tambour bought the Italian paint company “Colorficio Zetagi” that specializes in producing paints for industry, founded in 1957. Constant features in its history include a strong inclination towards innovation, reliability of their solutions, great production flexibility coupled with a fast delivery service; factors that led the brand to reach prestigious and challenging objectives. Tambour bought Zetagi from a Swiss investment fund in ~7M Euros, and this is the first acquisition of Tambour outside of Israel.

At its press conference at the CES, Intel announced a new collaboration between Israel's Mobilay and Ordnance Survey, the UK government mapping agency. As part of the collaboration, the high-resolution mapping and positioning data of the vehicles produced by the cameras installed in vehicles will be combined with the mapping data of the British government

Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman has warned in recent days that a foreign country intends to intervene in the Israeli elections, according to the Channel 12 news agency. Argaman said at a conference of the Friends of Tel Aviv University that the attack could be carried out in cyberspace by hackers. The Shin Bet explained that "the State of Israel and the intelligence community have the tools and capabilities to locate, monitor and thwart attempts to influence foreign influence, if any. The ability of the Israeli defense establishment to allow the existence of democratic and free elections in...