Business

Yellow jackets leave lobbyists red-faced

Barred from Knesset and tarred by its colleagues, the company is in damage-control mode.

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Anonymous hacker - AP -  February 2012
Hackers hit Israel Prime Minister Office website

Other websites of large Israeli institutions and businesses were also attacked yesterday. Attacks could be a prelude to a further, broader attack today.

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Haredi work
IMF: If Arabs and Haredim worked, GDP would grow by 15%

Only 20% of Arab women work, and in the ultra-Orthodox community, only 40% of men work. Both groups typically earn less than others in the same jobs.

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Ein Gedi - Alex Levac - February 2012
Television expose reveals: Some 'mineral' water bottles contain well water

Show's anchors set out to investigate the mineral water industry in Israel and found that the big mineral water bottling companies bottle water pumped from wells dug by the water utility Mekorot, not only spring water.

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Uri Hershkovitz - Ofer Vaknin - February 2012
Is it time to get into Teva? Sanford thinks the worst is over

'Drugs firm did well to scale back U.S. generics business'.

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Haifa port - Albatross Air Photos - 13022012
Private competitor biting into unionized state ports

Israel Shipyards received a permit to operate in 2007, near the Haifa port. Since then, its market share has jumped to 20%, at the expense of the state-operated port.

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Ahmadinejad - Reuters - 2.2012
How would an attack on Iran affect the stock market?

In investing, like in war, it pays to prepare an exit strategy before starting.

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Lobbyists - Fitoussi - Feb 2012
Where the shekel stops / The problem isn't the lobbyists, it's the Knesset members

As long as lawmakers think they're being rated based on the number of frivolous bills they submit, they'll keep having lobbyists do their leg work.

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Veolia - Toueg - 2.2012
Not afraid to make money in Israel

Veolia values its business ventures here and has no plans to leave despite its international streamlining or pro-Palestinian pressure, says the international giant's VP Denis Gasquet.

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Gaydamak - Milrod - 2.2012
Gaydamak accepts plea bargain, fraud charge dropped

Russian-Israeli businessman will plead guilty to "obtaining benefits via a ruse that did not entail outright fraud."

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Kahlon - Chayun - 2.2012
HOT launching Internet service

Competitors fume that the cable TV company is pricing its new service at a loss; regulator bans it from providing quadruple-play.

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Real Estate

Small claims, big headaches

On cases involving a landlady who tried to get a tenant to pay her costs and dog-lovers who weren't their landlord's pet residents.

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The allure of Tel Aviv's eastern neighborhoods

As prices and crowding in central Tel Aviv scare buyers away, reasonable options are springing up elsewhere. Just check the leases first.

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Sand castles in the air

Owners in the Carmel Beach Resort sued when the hotels, shops and marina they say the company promised them never materialized - and lost in court.

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Majdal Krum

New housing for Arab villages stonewalled

Residents are forced to build illegally while the authorities demand an upgraded sewerage system that the Galilee communities cannot afford.

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Taking stock / Retirement savings: The next frontier of the protest movement

It's becoming clear who the market serves. Guess what, it isn't you.

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The shekel drops / The last supper

As 2011 ends, we must admit that true change has not come; the winners so far are the rich and it looks like they will continue partying.

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