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About 60 students from Israel from 3 academic institutions (Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University and Interdisciplinary Herzliya) participated in the L'Oreal Marketing Innovation Competition - BRANDSTORM this year and joined 40,000 students who participated in the competition worldwide. The theme of this year's competition was sustainability: BUILD A PLASTIC-LESS FUTURE IN THE BEAUTY INDUSTRY, in collaboration with L'Oreal's consumer products division. Eighteen outstanding students rose to the final stage, and last week (19.5.20) the final competition was held, as the winning team from...

10 days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of winning Chinese Hutchison Group tender for establishment of Sorek 2 Desalination - Joint Committee of Energy and Water Ministry Announces Joint Group of Desalination Company IDE and Bank Leumi in Tender The facility, which is being built near zero from sensitive security facilities, has an output of 200 million cubic meters per year, will be the largest of its kind in the world and increase Israel's desalination capacity by 35%

The government ministers (Tuesday) confirmed in a telephone poll the cancellation of a series of restrictions created for the Corona period. Tomorrow, swimming pools, tourist attractions and the number of people allowed in confined spaces will be opened. As decided by the Prime Minister's Office, the restaurants, bars and public transport will also be opened. It was stated that "the reliefs have been approved due to the prolonged decline and stabilization in the number of new verified patients every day, in view of the steps taken by the government to prevent the spread of the corona virus

The Ministry of Communications published the 2019 Public Inquiry Report and the Public Inquiry Summary during the Corona crisis. The report segments the complaints received by the office during the spread of the Corona virus: March 15 through May 10. During this period, 1,526 complaints and inquiries were received - most in the area of ​​quality of service, with 884 complaints and inquiries in the corresponding period in 2019 - an increase of 73%. The cellular company that received the smallest number of complaints per 10,000 subscribers is Pelephone that leads with 1.4 complaints....

Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced a policy change in the Corona inspections. A statement to the media made it clear that from now on, tests across the country will be expanded even without the detection of symptoms, and not just in schools as has been the case until now. "People without symptoms who have been in close contact with a verified patient at school, people without symptoms who have been in close contact with a verified patient as part of an institutional discussion - protected housing and the like, and at the discretion of the attending physician - I allow any physician...

Following negotiations in the past few weeks between the Histadrut, the Pelephone employees and the company's management, the parties signed a new agreement that will allow the company to deal with the consequences of the Corona crisis, while reducing the damage to its employees. Negotiations on the agreement were led by MZA VP of Zvika Abramovitz, Chairman of the Cellular Workers 'Union, Internet and High Tech at the Yaki Pioneering Federation, and Chairman of the Workers' Committee Yechiel Shemen. Accompanying the negotiations: Prof. Yaron Zelicha Dr. Kfir Ze'ev of the Orna Lin office,...

Earthquake in Israeli football. Legendary past footballer Haim Revivo will be prosecuted for serious corruption offenses subject to a hearing. Arnon Giladi, a member of the Tel Aviv City Council and former Deputy Mayor, will also be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust subject to a hearing. This is what the prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday in a 1803 case in which it has already been decided to prosecute MK David Bitten (Likud). According to the suspicions, as of November 2003, Giladi serves as a member of the Tel Aviv City Council and throughout the relevant period...

Another huge exit at the door: Netapp storage and data company reports that it is acquiring Israeli (formerly SpotInst, Spotinst). Netap is a NASDAQ publicly traded company for $ 10 billion. It did not report the purchase amount as it is not material to it in reporting terms (less than 10% of its balance sheet), but it is estimated to be a $ 450 million deal. The deal was heated Wednesday evening. Negotiations to purchase it began in February. Spot has developed a system that helps companies save cloud computing costs by "zapping" between servers, and taking advantage of the discounted...

118 new corona patients have been diagnosed in Israel in the last 24 hours, 93 of them since midnight. This is according to the Ministry of Health data released this evening (Thursday). According to city data, the new patients were found in dozens of localities and not in a small number of localities, as they were in recent weeks. The number of infections in Israel stands at 17,495, of which 15,013 have recovered and 291 have died - so the number of active patients is 2,191

Six tenants and three employees in the nursing ward at Neot Avi - Ahuzat Eyal Nursing Home in Or Yehuda have been infected with the Corona virus in recent days. This after working at the institution was infected with the virus. The adherents were diagnosed on the second test, after the first test did not indicate infection. Following the diagnosis, all the occupants of the department and the workers were isolated - 29 patients and five employees. In addition, the institution began examining all tenants and employees. Some adhesives were transferred to other geriatric centers. According to...