“Hello. My name is Omer. I represent the hospital residents belonging to the Organization of the State Employed Physicians and the Israel Medical Association, and I’m calling on you to help us. I’m a doctor who’s a resident in [Sheba Medical Center] Tel Hashomer, my […]
As the coronavirus grounds thousands of planes and silences airports around the world, Israel Aerospace Industries and the AirPark unit of holding group IES Holdings are offering airlines a place to park their idle aircraft. The two companies said Wednesday they were partnering to create […]
Two of Israel’s biggest supermarket chains are planning to offer a fixed basket of goods beginning next week as they seek to cut delivery times for coronavirus shut-ins ordering online. Shufersal (formerly known as Super-Sol in English), Israel’s biggest food retailer, and Rami Levy, its […]
Israel sold $1 billion of 100-year bonds in international markets as part of a record $5 billion fundraising to finance government aid to help the economy cope with the coronavirus outbreak. Israel joins a handful of countries such as Austria, Mexico and Argentina that have […]
Like much of the world, Israel is in desperate need of ventilators for coronavirus patients. The Health Ministry estimates there are about 1,400 of the devices available for immediate use and another few hundred that can be made available. But if the scenario that sees […]
Thanks to the coronavirus, we’re living in an age of eye-popping numbers that would have been unimaginable just a couple of weeks ago. If we didn’t need more proof of that, we have the economic rescue program announced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday night. […]
The coronavirus epidemic has claimed as one of his victims a major merger in the Israeli telecommunications market – the offer by Altice Holding through its Hot Telecom unit to buy Partner Communications. In a brief announcement, Altice – a European-based telecoms group controlled by […]
Several of the most critical units of Israel Aerospace Industries have been working at nearly full capacity even as the coronavirus rages across Israel. IAI has been designated an essential industry but that doesn’t gives its workers any added protection against contagion and the need […]
American-Israeli dual citizens will be benefiting from the $2 trillion stimulus package signed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday. The plan, which includes direct payments of $1,200 per person and $500 per child under age 17, will also apply to citizens and green card […]
The deputy director general of the Health Ministry, Itamar Grotto, was unusually direct last week. He revealed to journalists the ministry’s working assumption: 10,000 to 20,000 Israelis will die of COVID-19. But Grotto added an important sentence: Most of the victims are likely to be […]
