Ora Coren

Science and Technology Minister Jacob Perry contrasts stance of UK government with segments of academia that seek to boycott Israel.

Change states that publicly held companies will need approval from the board committee for transactions involving controlling shareholders.

High-profile bond companies such as IDB would be exempt from new restrictions on conglomerates, under the cabinet's last-minute proposal to the Finance Committee.

Haifa dockworkers were earning nearly 50% more than the already steep average of about NIS 26,000 a month at all government-owned companies.

The former Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor says it will act to boost competition, bring Haredim into Israel's work force and aid small businesses.

Ashdod union chief: Naftali Bennett is a populist cabinet minister who's feeding the public nonsense.

Life-science and other firms are heading for the capital, where large Haredi and Arab communities still live in poverty.

The new rate on companies that export at least a quarter of their output will go up to 15% from 12.5% for those located in the center of the country.

Not much is the answer. Iscar is an old-fashioned business, where management is hardly distinguishable from staff and nobody gets hair raising bonuses. On the other hand, when the global recession kicked in and the company's sales plummeted, not a single employee lost his job.

Getting Haredim into the workforce and lowering the cost of living are his priorities, Minister Naftali Bennett says.

The effort comes as Israel readies to open up the aviation market to enhanced competition via the Open Skies agreement with the European Union.

The government has valued IAI at up to NIS 11.4 billion; this is the first time an IPO for Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has been seriously proposed.

The plan aims to bring down prices by nudging small, inefficient dairies to sell production quotas to larger operations.

If the agreement goes forward, Yishay Davidi’s FIMI, the largest private investment firm in the country, might not carry on with a deal to invest in El Al.

Economics and Trade Minister Naftali Bennett orders a 4.17% reduction in the cost to consumers for bread that is subject to government price controls.

Exporters fear that natural gas will strike an additional blow to their battered sector. Foreign currency demand from energy importers like the Israel Electric Corporation is set to drop.

Despite being a world leader in agricultural R&D, Israel is falling short of leveraging its capabilities, expert says.

Erez Vigodman, former head of Strauss and current CEO of a global pesticide company, wants to see countries around the world offering incentives to entrepreneurs of agriculture technology.

Before relations between the two countries soured following Israel’s Operation Cast Lead military incursion into the Gaza Strip in late 2008 and early 2009, and particularly the 2010 naval raid in which nine Turkish passengers died, Turkey was a favorite vacation destination for Israelis.

America has been Israel’s largest trading partner for decades; in 2012, total trade between the two countries was $19.4 billion, excluding diamonds.

Moshe Arens: Generous assistance reflects common strategic interests and values, rather than lobbying pressure.

Industry is critically short of skilled workers, a gap that a planned vocational training program aims to fill.

Still, women managers are less likely to be recruited from other companies, the head of the Israel Women's Network says.

Pratt & Whitney finds engine-test fraud at Carmel Forge; Israeli unit says there was never any need to recall parts or ground planes, 'Uvda' reports.

Controversy peaks over efforts to transfer funds from local, nonprofit Diamond Institute to Israel Diamond Manufacturer's Association, which is running at a deficit, sources say.

Antitrust Commissioner Strum has done well not to give up even after Industry and Trade Ministry Director-General Amir Hayek made a very odd decision - granting a "prize" to local cement monopoly Nesher and closing the cement sector to competition.