Category: Business

Infuriated customers of Cellcom/Netvision who had been told by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) that their emails would be restored on Monday, four days after it crashed, were promised on Tuesday morning that all mail would arrive “within a few hours.” But for many customers, nothing happened.  Cellcom spokeswoman Danielle Gold Alon said before 1 […]

In a move that has sparked concern and opposition, significant changes to Israel’s TV and news sectors are on the horizon. The proposed reforms are expected to receive approval in the coming months and have raised alarms among the local broadcasting and production community, prompting them to unite and express their outrage. The planned changes, […]

Private funding for Israeli hi-tech companies reached a five-year low in the first half of 2023, according to a comprehensive analysis released by Start-Up Nation Central. The report, based on data from their information platform Finder, highlights key trends and challenges faced by the local start-up ecosystem. Private funding dropped to $3.9 in the first […]

Israeli company “SolarEdge” and the Saudi company “Ajlan & Bros Holding (ABH)” extraordinary cooperation a sign of future normalization? The cooperation between the two companies aims to provide Saudi Arabia with renewable and smart energy, which will help the Kingdom – one of the world’s largest oil producers – reduce its dependence on oil by […]

Users of Cellcom’s Netvision email services which have not been functioning properly for four whole days are expected to finally get them back on Tuesday night.  Company spokeswoman Danielle Gold Alon told The Jerusalem Post that the breakdown was “due to a malfunction originating in the system of a Hitachi email server.” She apologized to […]

July may be the hottest month in 120,000 years, according to an analysis published Thursday by a climate scientist at Germany’s Leipzig University. But none of us need that stat to know that extreme weather conditions are becoming more common, and climate change is no longer an abstract threat somewhere far in the distant future. […]

The Israel Innovation Authority is set to finance human capital development programs, they announced on July 20.  The new project aims to retrain and place workers in the fields of cutting-edge quantum technology, artificial intelligence, climate tech, foodtech, and bioconvergence with a total budget of NIS 36 million. The call for proposals was launched in […]

Dr. Esther Luzzatto has been appointed as the new Chairwoman of the Council for Advancement of Women in Science and Technology, the Innovation, Science, and Technology Ministry announced on Sunday. “My ministry considers the promotion of gender equality and the integration of women in the fields of research, science and technology in Israel a national […]

The history of the President Hotel in the Talbiyeh neighborhood in some respects resembles the story of the boy who cried wolf.  Over the years, the abandoned building has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles in which plans for its future were published, but none eventuated. The President, frequented in its heyday by politicians, […]

After four years of excavation, archaeological preservation, extensive engineering work, and construction – and just in time for the sweltering heat wave now baking Jerusalem – an indoor swimming pool measuring 16×8 meters was inaugurated on July 3 at the Terra Sancta School in the Old City’s Christian Quarter. The sports and cultural center in […]