Watch (and read) an important webinar titled Navigating Regulatory Changes, covering the latest “CARES” stimulus act as well as other relief initiatives and how they affect you, your business or organization.
Bennett opposes a complete lock-down in Israel at this point.
All tax returns and tax payments for 2019 and estimated tax payments for 2020 otherwise due initially April 15 will not be due before July 15.
Setting up an ad hoc distribution center, the Kibbutz elders sorted the flowers and the youth set up a circulation point, all working 18 hours a day to save the flowers.
Pesach programs are now taking calls from customers who want a refund, and getting one is not always simple.
When the butcher came, people lunged at him and began grabbing meat off his tray.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Up to 80 percent of Israel’s public-sector workers and 70 percent of its private-sector office workers to go on leave until after Passover.
All the major banks are offering generous deferrals on mortgage payments to help them get through this difficult period.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The government announced Sunday that anyone arriving in Israel from abroad will have to self-quarantine, and only foreigners who can prove they have a place to self-quarantine will be admitted into the country.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli airliner has reported to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that the epidemic could cost it $70 million in lost revenue from January to April.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We pledge to help ensure that Chinese people feel safe and supported, and to combat attacks and stereotyping on social media,” the letter said. “We know from history that such fearmongering can be devastating.”
From clothing to Kosher food to Passover programs... everything is affected.
The two-day comprehensive crash course provided the participants with the tools and knowledge to open their own Amazon businesses from Israel.
By Eliana Rudee
"We are here to help those enterprises and people who are not appealing for the financial system."
"Israel is quickly becoming an energy powerhouse, an energy-exporting country."
Forbes magazine has declared the coastal city the second-best worth visiting in the world.
The pilot is a cooperative effort between Watergen, Israel’s Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the Damour NGO and Abasan al-Kabira.
By Duvi Honig
Do you or your married children reside in Israel? Contrary to conventional wisdom, you can run a successful American Amazon business while living in Eretz Yisrael! Learn how.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Senior PA and Fatah officials stand to make significant personal profits by redirecting livestock imports away from Israel and to their own import connections that would control the market.
This is the highest rating Israel has ever had, putting it on par with the Czech Republic and Qatar and among a relatively small list of 17 countries, and above others such as China and Japan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The 60-second commercial first aired on a dedicated website launched by consumer-goods giant Procter & Gamble, where viewers could vote on and control the ad’s storyline.
The debt reached approximately half a billion dollars before the PA began paying some of it off
Israel has yet to find a buyer for the port, although the Chinese have reportedly expressed interest in the issue.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jordanian parliament passed the motion in a unanimous vote, but it may not become law • Vote come just days after mass protests in Amman against Israel-Jordan gas deal.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Jordanian parliament is expected to submit an urgent request on Sunday to ban the purchase of natural gas from the Jewish state.
Israeli tech ended 2019 with a record high of $8.3b in capital funding. The number of transactions in 2019, 522 funding deals, remained at the same level as 2018.
The fair will be held at Binyanei Hauma (ICC) on Tuesday, January 14, 2020, from 11AM to 3 PM.
Tesla can only import 20 cars this year, and drivers will not be allowed to use the autopilot feature.
Israel’s Treasury issued $2 billion worth of 30-year bonds at 3.375%, or 115 basis points more than comparable US Treasury bonds, and an additional $1 billion worth of 10-year bonds at 2.5%, or 68 basis points above the US Treasury’s rates.
Israel’s foreign currency reserves rose nearly 10% from $115.279 billion to $126.023 billion in 2019.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
1,283 housing units and three outline plans were approved by a committee convened by the Civil Administration’s Planning Division.
Dror 1 is intended to meet Israel’s satellite communications needs for approximately 15 years.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Under the agreement, Israel and Cyprus will jointly export gas through Greece and Italy to the rest of Europe • Netanyahu: “We have established an alliance in the Middle East of tremendous importance.”
Israeli startup TriEye on Thursday announced a collaboration with the German sports car manufacturer Porsche to further improve visibility and performance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles (AV).
This is part of a series of projects to develop renewable energy sources for Israel.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Israeli export which is expected to reach $114 billion in 2019, an increase of 4.5% compared to the previous year’s figures.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
In total, some 35 trillion cubic feet of gas have been found in Israeli waters, worth some $500 billion.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The car’s starting price is expected to be around $72,300 (about NIS 250,000).
The CanNegev center will be located in Yeruham and will admit six start-ups from the medical cannabis sector per year for the first five years of the center’s operation.
Jordanian Members of Parliament (MP) are pushing for an urgent legislative initiative to repeal the agreement in which Israel will supply gas to the Hashemite Kingdom, ahead of the soon-to-be-launched natural gas pipeline between the two countries.
Approximately 150 scooter riders get injured every month across the city, and many pedestrians are hurt as well.
Labor force participation for ages 15 and over has improved slightly, and participation among men is significantly higher than among women.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The planned gas pipeline is projected to meet 10 percent of Europe’s natural-gas demand.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Our robot employment agency is a game-changer,” said Ran Poliakine, founder of SixAI. “It will provide capacity in markets that struggle with labor availability either through the difficulty of the work itself or the cost pressures they face.”
Habana Labs develops programmable deep learning accelerators for the data center.
The government approved the export of a total of 60 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas from Leviathan, and 25 bcm from Tamar over the next 15 years.
Israel and Montenegro on Sunday signed their first-ever defense agreement, awarding Elbit Systems, one of Israel’s leading weapons manufacturers, a contract of approximately $35 million to supply Montenegro’s Armed Forces with Remote Controlled Weapon Stations (RCWS). The contract was signed by Montenegrin Minister of Defense Predrag Bošković and General Director of Israeli Ministry of Defense, […]
Egyptian gas companies halted deliveries of natural gas between 2011 and 2013 after terrorists blew up the pipeline in the SInai.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The PA's electric bill debt is currently around half a billion US dollars.
Hi-tech accounts for approximately 37% of all industrial exports in Israel and contributes immensely to Israel’s annual growth.
Steinitz said he is considering setting a goal of 25%-30% for renewable energy production in Israel.
In October, the unemployment rate fell to a low of 3.4 percent, Israel’s lowest figure in recent decades.
JP Morgan joins 12 banks as primary dealers who participate in Israel’s government bond auctions and trade them in the secondary market, providing liquidity to the Israeli bond market.
Tesla’s subsidiary registration indicates it will operate in “importation, distribution, sale, maintenance and repair of electric vehicles and mobile energy storage systems, energy generation systems, [etc.]”
By Aryeh Green
Israeli spending increased by 15.1% this Black Friday compared to that of 2018.
The highest-earning 10% of the population in Israel earned, on average, 8.4 times more than the lowest-earning 10%.
The unemployment rate among men stood at 3.1% while women’s unemployment measured at 3.7%.
Israeli exports reached 4.6% growth in the first three quarters of 2019, compared to the same period of last year.
Intel acquired Mobileye in 2017 for $15.3 billion, constituting the largest acquisition in the history of Israeli hi-tech.
Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems on Monday reported that it will supply electro-optic systems for the use of US Air Force fighter jets, a contract worth approximately NIS 200 million.
All countries “without exception” were welcome to attend.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
American rap star says Seedo’s Home Grow Device allows “all people to benefit from agricultural technologies.”
The report estimates that the number of millionaires in Israel will grow to 173,000 by 2024.
The fact that the world’s most powerful military chose an Israeli active protection system to protect the lives of its tank crews is historic.
The growing budget deficit stems from rising government spending during Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon’s five-year-long term, in which he launched several social programs.
MeaTech, is developing technology for 3D printing of lab-grown Clean Meat produced from stem cells.
The work permits of 20,000 PA Arab workers, 30% of PA Arab laborers employed under permits in Israel, were purchased illegally for an average monthly payment of about NIS 2,000
Following the announcement, Cellcom’s workers went on an improvised strike, saying the layoffs are unacceptable.
Along with the locally grown apples, Israelis will consume up to 25,000 tons of imported apples, mostly from Europe and the US.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The APS will give us a significant combat advantage and will improve tactical operation."
By Baruch Lytle
McGill suggested Nazi swastikas with negative connotations could be mixed in with Buddhist swastikas to avoid being detected.
The massive 75,000 sq. meter (approx. 800,000 sq. ft.) building will host 2,000 employees from the former Petah Tikva and Ra’anana campuses.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The heavily Jewish Broward County has been collecting permit fees for nearly 40 years, but on Sept. 10, commissioners will vote on whether or not to repeal the kosher-license regulations.
By Aryeh Green
Fitch assesses in its report that Israel’s macroeconomic performance has been strong and the economy will remain buoyant in 2019, with real GDP growth of 3.1%, low unemployment, rising wage growth and still low inflation.
Another 14 other defendants are standing trial for involvement in the binary options scheme.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Amazon bought Israeli cloud company CloudEndure for $250 million in January, and late last month acquired Israeli technology startup E8 Storage.
The Israeli labor force is exceptionally diverse, and different sectors of society have very different employment characteristics.
The shekel dipped below NIS 3.5 against the dollar.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The world is digitizing, and people are looking for better ways to do what they do,” said co-founder Roy Mann.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel’s precise place in the 2019 top 10 list has yet to be disclosed — the final results are slated to be unveiled on July 24 at a special event the WIPO will be hosting in New Delhi.
BinyaminTech was created in order to establish a foundation that will allow for the development of a high-tech industry in the Binyamin region and incorporate the Binyamin residents in the industry.
The extraordinarily high birth rate among Arab and Haredi populations has been a contributing factor in the poverty of these sectors, the study found.
The time necessary for the production of lab meat would take only three weeks, compared to two years with traditional beef growing.
The Ministry’s goal is to convert 60 percent of the inner-city buses within the next six years.
Leviathan is one of the world’s largest deep-water natural gas discoveries found in the first decade of the 21st century.
The space saved by the REE vehicle’s base can be used for cargo, as well as for passengers or even a larger electric battery.
Israel and Indonesia do not maintain official diplomatic ties, and Jakarta has been hostile towards Jerusalem, but delegations arrive in Israel periodically for trade and the exchange of knowledge.
More cows with less methane emissions, will leave Progressives with little to protest against.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli defense electronics company Elbit Systems has been awarded a $26 million contract to install a multi-sensor system to monitor the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Like other opioid producers, Teva is facing lawsuits in the United States, having been accused of worsening the opioid crisis.
The data were “proof of the Israeli government’s wise and responsible economic policy," said Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen.
By Israel Hayom
Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan: “Entrepreneurship is in Samaria’s DNA.” Nearly 2,000 small and medium-sized businesses now operate in Judea and Samaria.
The Filterlex device is designed to divert, capture, and excise emboli released during medical procedures.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“With increasing digitalization, we have to be prepared to defend against anything coming,” said AB InBev vice president of global security and compliance Luis Veronesi.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. defense contractor will also hire about 25 new workers from Israel’s southern area.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ford has been working with local companies and partners in Israel’s tech community for many years. Ford has been able to work with Israel’s best technology talent and specialized companies helping to push its research and engineering efforts forward.
DeSantis stated Friday that he “promised to be the most pro-Israel Governor in America.”
The close cooperation between the IDF and defense industries, and Israeli willingness to allow clients to produce Israeli technology, are part of the success.
By Josh Hasten
Several hundred entrepreneurs and business professionals gathered to introduce their products and services, network, hear lectures and attend workshops at the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce’s second annual Anglo-Israeli/American Jerusalem Expo and Conference.
By Israel Hayom
As of Monday the Israel Tax Authority had received 291 requests to cover the cost of repairs to buildings in southern Israel. The largest number of requests were for buildings in Ashkelon (142), followed by Ashdod (79), Sderot (24) and Kiryat Gat (20).