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Category: Law
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...
Jun 2, 2020
Category: Financial
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...
Jun 3, 2020
Category: Health
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
Jun 4, 2020
Category: Health
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...
Jun 6, 2020
Category: Government
In the coming days, the Risk Loan Fund is expected to start operating, where a state guarantee of 60% will be given instead of 15% on the total loan portfolio. These are loans to businesses that have so far failed to earn the credit they need to deal with the Corona crisis. The prevailing claim is that the current loan fund - of which NIS 13 billion in loans has already been distributed to small and medium businesses - does not meet the needs of several industries, especially restaurants, cafes and hotels. According to this claim, a 15% state guarantee is not enough to address the banks'...
Jun 6, 2020
Category: Financial
Leading candidate for the post of CEO Mizrahi Tefahot, Vice President of the Bank Moshe Larry was officially appointed: Mizrahi-Tefahot Board of Directors today adopted the recommendation of the Detection Committee for the CEO position (chaired by the Chairman of the Board of Directors Moshe Weidman) and decided that VP And Finance Division Manager Moshe Larry will be appointed Mizrahi-Tefahot's next general manager. Weidman said: "The members of the detection committee were very impressed by Moshe Larry's many capabilities, his rich experience and significant contribution to the bank's...
Jun 8, 2020
Category: Financial
Israel Aerospace Industries has signed a NIS 1.2 billion ($ 350 million) contract with a major European state to sell intelligence aircrafts. Intelligence aircrafst are developed in the Elta division of Israel Aerospace Industries, the radar and intelligence house of Israel, a world leader in the field. Aerospace intelligence aircraft operate in Israel and many countries of the world and are considered to be strategically important. The aerospace industry is one of the few companies in the world with the ability to develop these unique technologies. The company's breakthrough in the field...
Jun 8, 2020
Category: Health
.148 people were diagnosed with Corona patients in the past day, according to (Tuesday) Health Ministry data released (Tuesday). The data also shows that 32 have recovered in the last day, and the number of active patients is currently 2,722. According to data and a report from the Corona National Information and Knowledge Center, affiliated with the IDF Intelligence Division, 166 patients were added in Tel Aviv as of June 1. According to the Ministry of Health, 18,180 people have contracted corona in Israel, of which 15,159 have recovered. 31 of the active patients are defined as in...
Jun 9, 2020
Category: Banking
"The Israeli economy is facing a severe recession and GDP is expected to decline by 8.3%, which means growth is expected to be negative and stand at 8.3%. If a second outbreak of the Corona epidemic occurs later this year, and 6.2% if the epidemic goes away by the summer. " This is the sharpest recession since the establishment of the state, and the forecast is much gloomier than that of the Bank of Israel, which estimated the impact on GDP at only 5.3%. The decline in growth, according to the optimistic outlook, is also stronger than the world average (6%), but less than the expected west...
Jun 10, 2020
Category: Communication
Two days after the Treasury announced that it was not opposed to the acquisition of Golan Telecom by Cellcom, the competition authority announced on Wednesday that it was approving the deal, three months since it was opened. In 2016, the authority objected to a similar purchase request for fear of damaging the competition. Now, the Ministry of Communications' final approval is required, but it is also likely to see eye to eye with the other regulators. The merged Cellcom will actually return to pre-cellular reform days in 2012 with a 35% market share, which is about 3.7 million...
Jun 10, 2020