Recent entry into market offers unlimited service for NIS 79 a month; industry sources believe that, at that price, company must be losing money.
by Amitai Ziv 0 comments
Employment has increased at about the same rate for the last 43 years.
by Hila Weissberg 0 comments
Activists hold 'people's court' in Bat Yam, accusing the prime minister and other senior officials of deliberately destroying public housing in Israel over several decades.
by Talila Nesher 1 comments
Workers are currently owed some NIS 95.5 million by the troubled daily; purchasing shares would also make workers part of management.
by Amir Teig 0 commentsIn private conversations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he wants to lower the cost of housing and food. He should start with the dairy industry.
by Nehemia Shtrasler 0 comments
There is nothing quite as soul-draining as a trip to the unemployment office, in light of increased joblessness and expected mass layoffs around the country.
by Roy (Chicky) Arad 1 comments
Stanley Fischer has the credentials to play a major role in Israel's socioeconomic debate - unless he's more interested in winning a cabinet post.
by Sami Peretz 0 comments
Israel's public sector is inflated, wasteful and extremely inefficient. Too many government workers is a drain on the private sector, which finances the former via taxes.
Haaretz Editorial 0 commentsLow-price cottage cheese and animal welfare are contradictory goals. Thus, the cottage cheese protest is an example of one of the weaknesses of the social protest: the fact that it wasn't clear what the protesters were ready to give in return for the fulfillment of their demands.
by Amalia Rosenblum 0 comments
Health minister's plan would let state hospitals dedicate up to a quarter of activities in every ward to treating visiting foreigners.
by Ronny Linder-Ganz 1 commentsShelly Yacimovich considers herself a social democrat, but the truth is that she is a socialist from the old-fashioned school that has ceased to exist.
by Nehemia Shtrasler 0 comments
Undermined by losses at Credit Suisse, Super-Sol and Maariv, among many others, prominent Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner's flagship company forced to include going-concern warning in Q2 financials.
by Michael Rochvarger 0 comments
Israel Electric Corporation's debt expected to grow by another NIS 1.5 billion within next few weeks.
by Itai Trilnick 0 comments
Some 8,000 new office suites are slated to be built in and around Tel Aviv over the next few years, which could send rental rates tumbling.
by Nathan Sheva 0 comments
Bloomberg ranking notes that in Israel, a gallon of premium gas costs $9.28, while in the U.S. drivers pay $3.75; in Venezuela, the same gallon costs 9 cents.
by Haaretz 4 comments
