Ora Coren

A number of diamond traders' bank accounts have been frozen causing a chain reaction of bounced checks throughout the sector, said the senior figure in the diamond industry.

Cement monopoly says that by selling excess cement on the Palestinian market, it was keeping prices in Israel low.

Finance Ministry and Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry wants to push through plans to give the local dairy industry competition by increasing imports.

The Histadrut labor federation may take the opposing side, fearing that regulations weakening the Standards Institution's powers may result in dismissals there.

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.