Business

Employers love them, employees don’t: A guide to vouchers

The New Year 5771 is upon us and while some employers choose to give their employees gifts of wine and chocolates, others opt for envelopes with gift vouchers, to let the workers get what they want.

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Shuki Gleitman
Tech talent tapped to replace Meridor at TA Univ.

Meridor announced her resignation, after only a year and a half in the post. The university will be appointing a search committee to find and review candidates.

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World Cup, AP
Gift for investors: Stocks tend to bounce right before holidays

The study looks at the average returns of the Tel Aviv-25 index on the last trading day before holidays from 1990. It found the average return was five times the average daily TA-25 return.

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Market Report /Tel Aviv stocks ease down in last session of 5770

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange will be closed for the rest of the week because of the Rosh Hashanah holiday.

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Nitai Schreiber
Social activist in sandals

Nitai Schreiber of Sderot had an epiphany: To help the communities in the periphery, you have to live there.

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Haim Saban
Alon Glazer
Moti Gutman
Matrix's Moti Gutman finds a gold mine

Indian high-tech workers might be cheaper, but differences in mentality and culture made globalization difficult. So Matrix looked closer to home.

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A needle of Copaxone
Court rejects rivals' motion to void patents on Teva's Copaxone

Copaxone is Teva's flagship drug, providing more than 20% of its revenues in the second quarter of 2010. Analysts estimate that it accounts for between 25% and 30% of Teva's profits.

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Gilad Barnea
Tilting at windmills

Gilad Barnea wins for the greater good.

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Yen spikes to 15-year high against U.S. dollar

The yen has been rising steadily against the dollar for four months because of concerns that the American economic recovery is faltering.

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Adina Bar Shalom
Israel's hi-tech future: Haredi women

Adina Bar Shalom responded to spreading poverty in the Haredi community by creating the Haredi College of Jerusalem, which boasts 350 female graduates.

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Shania Twain, AP
Shania Twain, head the Fed!

America's leaders seem incapable of admitting to their mistakes, and of divulging the bitter truth of the price these will exact.

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David Azrieli, second from right, with top TASE officials
Haim Oron
Placing society ahead of secrets

Meretz MK Haim Oron, on the frontline of Israel's struggle against the concentration of economic power, is still going strong at 70

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Haim Shani
He made his fortune, now he'll make his mark

In Haim Shani, the Finance Ministry has a director-general who's a passionate Zionist, a high-tech guru and who doesn't need a job

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Yossi Langotsky
Latter-day Moses

Yossi Langotsky is the reason Israelis are splitting the sea in the search for oil and gas. But wildcatting isn't all this decorated soldier and founder of the Society for Autistic Children is known for

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Abbott enters R&D deal with Industry ministry

The deal is part of the ministry's set of global enterprise framework cooperation agreements with multinational companies, the aim of which is to boost Israeli startups.

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Statistics chief: Follow official bureau index, not 'Big Mac index' look-alikes

Changes in home prices should be tracked via the Central Bureau of Statistic's quarterly survey - not those of the Justice Ministry's Chief Government Appraiser or the Finance Ministry, the head of the stats bureau said.

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Lottery winners
Mifal Hapayis lottery sued over 'shrinking prizes'

National lottery alleged to have reduced their payouts by hundreds of millions.

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