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Let’s hope Hamas fears Coca-Cola enough not to screw up in use the plant to shoot missiles at Israel.
Elections, and not Netanyahu, raised the minimum wage.
Thousands stranded in sudden bus strike.
Putin warns financial crisis could last for years.
High housing prices are blamed, but has anyone suggested that working for a living might help?
The giant firm will build a cyber-defense center outside of central Israel and train Haredim and others.
Lapid and Netanyahu have unwittingly helped exports by creating a government crisis.
The Knesset's Economic Committee passed its first reading on a proposal which would require government organizations to pay suppliers based on terms of Net+30.
It has been a one-way trip for the shekel since July, when the rate was 13 percent lower.
MK Miri Regev said the law is a difficult and complicated one, and it requires a serious discussion about its downsides, and therefore shouldn't be rushed into implementation.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
In 2014, cruise ship traffic to Israel decreased by almost two-thirds in comparison with the year before.
Shas head Aryeh Deri said this evening on Radio Kol Chai that if Netanyahu met his two non-negotiable conditions, Shas could join the coalition.
By Rachel Levy
Iran won a seven month reprieve after stonewalling world powers over ending its uranium enrichment program.
The threat to release 2 million active credit card account's data could have damaged Israel's economy.
By JTA
The lab will operate in both Israel and New York, and will allow researchers to explore technologies in areas including communication and coordination, food and wellness, education and safety, and information and entertainment.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“We promised to take care of the residents of southern Israel and we are keeping that promise,” emphasized Minister of the Economy, Naftali Bennett.
The slashing of government child subsidies is one of the primary reasons for the dramatic rise of working Hareidi women.
Boston area residents are thrilled there will soon be direct flights between Logan and Ben Gurion Airport.
Israel’s oligarchies better wake before a social earthquake swallows them up.
By Tibbi Singer
“There’s only one way to buy it,” Adelson said. “Money.”
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Central Bank Deputy Governor Disagrees, says, falling prices in the consumer prices index are due to the falling price of imports.
By JTA
A member of Russia’s Human Rights Council slammed a news website that said that nearly a quarter of Russia’s top billionaires are Jews.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Bill To Be Brought For Vote on Wednesday.
By Shalom Bear
The law would be a major step forward in promoting home ownership in Israel.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
China has acquired $7 billion in Israeli assets in the past three years.
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
Israel Will Buy, And Help Produce, American Jet Fighters; Will Sell Communications Equipment to Canada
Macy's still sells Ahava, so dropping SodaStream was not a political decision.
SodaStream's stock price bubbled up, after fizzing out for a while, when they announced they will be doing a 10 week trial with Pepsi.
The Olympic Committee and the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympiad have selected Israeli security company ISDS to provide security for the event with a $2.2 billion budget, Israel Defense reported. ISDS will be responsible for consultation and supply services to protect the Olympics, the world’s largest sporting event. "We already have teams operating in Brazil, […]
By Shalom Bear
India has chosen to purchase Israel's Spike anti-tank missiles after rejecting a competing offer for US Lockheed Martin's Javelin missiles.
Haifa-based Elbit Systems won an $88 million from an unnamed Asian country for various projects, most of them for an F-5 aircraft avionics upgrade program and the supply of electro-optic and communications systems, Elbit announced Wednesday. The F-5 fighter jet has been in operation for more than 40 years four decades, and is used by […]
By Tzvi Zucker / Tazpit News Agency
IMI To Be Privatized, Price Expected To Be 2.5 - 3 Billion Shekels
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Dr. Eli Harari will receive the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
Israel and Israelis play an important role in Google.
It is hard to believe, but Egypt is now dependent on Israel for gas instead of the other way around.
The share price of Protalix jumped nearly 50 percent this week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The high-speed rail line has cost around $1.9 billion and is expected to carry passengers between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in only 28 minutes.
Retired USAF Gen. to head Israeli defense company's North American division.
BDS failed to #StoptheBoat at the Port of Long Beach. The ZIM Shanghai unloaded / reloaded and sailed on without a hitch.
The Zim Shanghai moored a short while ago at the Port of Los Angeles.
ZIM may not call on the Port of Oakland again, certainly not until the ILWU 10 has a contract and guarantees to unload ZIM ships. Other shipping companies wary of the port's unreliability may also consider the same.
By Tibbi Singer
The new Jewish Temple will offer millions of pilgrims underground parking, according to a new plan that just received the endorsement of hundreds of supporters who put their money where their faith is.
By Tibbi Singer
Subject to government approval, EL AL will place its “LY” code on select JetBlue flights to and from JFK and Newark, which will presumably expand the options for EL AL customers throughout the United States.
The Port of Oakland is again under economic attack by BDS. But are Union leaders using BDS as contract negotiating fools?
By Rachel Levy
The days of the red cape and Superman are long gone. Now one surfs the Net and buys ISIS chotchkes to become Jihad John.
S&P has confirmed that Israel's credit rating is good, and we're still on the right fiscal path.
US Defense corporation Lockheed Martin has registered an Israeli subsidiary after opening an office in Be'er Sheva.
Hamas claimed one of the bank's clients owed them taxes...
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
China’s Yuanda Enterprise Group announced last week that it had bought the Israeli company AutoAgronome Israel Ltd for $20 million in order to expand its business to high-tech agriculture.
Mainstream media report “all the news to print that fits” the anti-Israeli agenda.
Turkey is not going to be signing any deals for Israeli natural gas exports any time soon, says Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz.
Wind power is also facing difficulties taking off in Israel, this time because of regulators and other interest groups, and not environmentalists.
By Zeev Ben-Yechiel / Tazpit News Agency
The recent war in Gaza is not expected to inflict any lasting damage on economic performance.
The price of self-service 95 octane gasoline in Israel dropped by a tiny bit -- one agora per liter -- at midnight on Sunday.
#BlocktheBoat failed again.
By Zeev Ben-Yechiel / Tazpit News Agency
The nearly two-month-long conflict with Hamas that has taken an economic toll on Israel. The hardest-hit from the ongoing war are the businesses in the south of the country.
By Shalom Bear
BDS is attempting a new form of economic terrorism, except that it hurts American workers, and not Israel. American workers don't like that.
The Jewish community in Belfast, Northern Ireland is bracing for violent backlash as the city prepares for an appearance by radical British MP George Galloway on Saturday night. Last month, Palestinian supporters smashed windows twice at the Belfast Hebrew Congregation following a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the city. Now, representatives for Galloway say the 1,000-seat Ulster […]
Longshoremen pulled a fast on anti-Israel picketers and are unloading the Zim ship that was blocked from unloading last week.
By Tibbi Singer
Soros is basically about short selling, betting on the market to take a dive.
By Tibbi Singer
PayPal co-founder Max Levchin netted a reported $34 million when his brainchild was sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion. Ever since that day, the sometimes weird whiz kid Levchin, now 39, has been trying to do it again.
By Shalom Bear
Now, Noble Energy and Delek can sell the offshore fields and avoid being labeled a cartel.
By JTA
Starbucks issued a statement saying the company and its CEO do not provide any financial support to Israel or its army.
By Vered Weiss
The timing of the move, giving the raging conflict between Israel an Gazans, led to speculation by Pro-Palestinian news agencies that Soros, either through pressure of conviction, was divesting from SodaStream for political reasons.
By Shalom Bear
Without fanfare, supermarket magnate Rami Levy has been quietly unloading truckloads of food and basics at the homes of all the fallen soldiers...
By Shalom Bear
Israel threatened to go disproportional on Gaza, if the FAA ban on US flights to Israel wasn't rescinded.
Finance, Economy ministries team up to support Israeli businesses struggling under weight of non-stop rocket fire.
Last night, the FAA lifted their travel ban on flights to Israel.
Did El Al intentionally spike prices, or was the sudden jump in air fares the normal function of airline economics?
Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Louise Mushikiwabo toured the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council Monday, accompanied by Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman. The foreign ministers visited the situation room at the regional council, observed the Iron Dome missile defense system in action, met with soldiers at Kibbutz Zikkim, and visited a home damaged several days […]
Far from missiles and mortar shells, Canadian Israeli Philanthropist David Azrieli has passed away at the age of 92.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Over 100 claims have been made so far as a result of damage caused by the rockets in the south, totaling at 10,000,000 NIS.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Over the past year, the Japanese business sector’s interest in Israel and in cooperation with Israeli businesses has grown, in particular in the homeland security sector, including cyber-security,.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
U.S. Governor of Georgia: ‘Israel is Vital Partner in Friendship’ and Economic Efforts
Israeli real estate and international business magnate Lev Leviev is raising prices on diamonds he mines in Angola, due to a new deal.
Israel isn't afraid of sanctions from Iraq, which doesn't permit oil sales to Israel.
Iraq has threatened any country which buys the Iraqi Kurdistan crude oil. Israel is buying it.
By JTA
Fischer, 70, succeeds Janet Yellen, who was elevated to Fed chairwoman in February to follow Ben Bernanke. All three are Jewish.
WJC leader meets with Jewish community, shows support for community rocked by violence in recent months;
The US has been going after international banks who may have violated new money laundering laws.
Parliament speaker to ask US Secretary of State John Kerry to intervene, give up claim to coastal waters
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
United Utilities, the UK‘s largest listed water company supplying around 7 million homes in the North West of England, is the latest water utility to discover the merits Israel's Mapal Green Energy company.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The Israeli cow is considered a global leader in milk yields, with the highest national milk and milk solid yields in the world according the Israeli Dairy Board.
The Israeli government has hopes to put the kabash on cash transactions starting in fiscal 2015 budget.
The BDS leadership wants to punish Soros for Israeli investments; they are calling for an "aidcott."
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
“The best hidden treasures are here,” Lee told Tazpit. “Israelis have amazing innovative minds. You have 12 Nobel laureates!”
By JTA
Stanley Fischer was confirmed as a member of the Federal Reserve, clearing the way for the former Bank of Israel governor to become the Fed’s vice chairman.
"Bring you own popcorn," says Minister Naftali Bennett on his Facebook page after the Knesset bill passed the popcorn bill.
By dvora
If bitcoins aren’t issued by any sort of government agency, or printed in any mint, where do they come from, and how do you get them?
From its inception in 1926, Tnuva has been a household name, for children as they learned to talk up through adulthood. How do you say "Tnuva" in Chinese?
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and IBM have launched a Center of Excellence in the field of protection of infrastructure and assets. The Center will be housed at the university’s campus in Beer-Sheva. The center will focus on research and development of solutions for the private and public enterprise markets, with a focus on the […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
The trip highlights Hong Kong’s strong economic ties with Israel and aims to further raise Israeli business interest in the region.
By JTA
A recovery plan for Jerusalem’s bankrupt Hadassah Medical Organization calls for an additional $869 million in funding and cuts to the hospital’s services.
The Israeli version of the Italian strike left hundred of travelers stuck at the airport with long delays, and one flight was completely cancelled.
By Shalom Bear
Egypt is to receive 4.5 BCM (billion cubic meters) each year for 15 years, valued at 1.1 to 1.3 billion dollars a year.
By JTA
Religious-Zionist paper had been in danger of closing, will now join Sheldon Adelson's stable of media
New US tax regs to impact US-Israel dual citizens
The Intel Corporation has announced a multi-billion dollar upgrade to its plant in Kiryat Gat.
Its estimated that the "Oz" field has between 93 to 607 million barrels of oil, and 2.5 trillion cubic feet (TCF) of gas.
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