Thursday 17th May, 2012

• Bottom Shekel / Is that a financial crisis I hear coming?

  Haaretz

  1. Angst in the markets Ever since the crisis at the end of the last decade, it has been hard to know when to sound the alarm for the financial markets. No one sounded it in 2008, and many did so ...

• Cellcom quarterly net tumbles in the first sting of competition

  Haaretz

  Crushing competition in the local telecommunications sector reached a peak earlier this week when Golan Telecom invaded the market with an unlimited talk and text plan for NIS 99 per month, followed ...

• The end of an era / Caller's choice: Fast and costly/cheap and slow

  Haaretz

  Israeli cellular consumers now have a choice they never had before: An expensive and complicated product or a simple and cheap product with Internet service ...

• Market Report / Cell phone bloodbath marks day 3, but TA-25 shrugs it off

  Haaretz

  Stocks recovered on Wednesday after three days of losses, but telecommunications shares extended their steep fall as competition in the cellphone industry forces companies to change radically - in ...

• Netanyahu is seeking rapid passage of anti-monopoly law

  Haaretz

  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to pass new legislation to improve competition and shrink economic concentration before the end of the Knesset summer session in July. The Prime ...

• Arafat aide accused of embezzlement

  Haaretz

  The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday. ...

• Preliminary data show big export rise, lifting GDP to 3% annual rate

  Haaretz

  Exports of goods and services jumped 14% in the first quarter of the year, after a 0.2% drop in the last quarter of 2011. The recovery in exports led a to a 3% rise in the gross domestic ...

• Dankner seeks to calm investors

  Haaretz

  Nochi Dankner and the corporate brass of his IDB Group took the unusual step late Tuesday of meeting with institutional investors and analysts in a bid to ease their concerns over the holding ...

• Ben-Dov, Barenboim: No deal

  Haaretz

  Negotiations on merging Scailex Corporation's Samsung cellphone importing and marketing operations into BGI Investments have broken off, the parties announced on Tuesday. Shares in Scailex ...

• Delek Israel operating profit plunges

  Haaretz

  The company reports a net loss of NIS 870,000 attributable to shareholders for the first quarter of 2012, compared to net profit of NIS 13 million in the first quarter of ...

• Thousands flock to discount cellular firms

  Haaretz

  The new cellular operators are reeling in new customers at a scorching pace. Golan Telecom signed up 9,000 subscribers in just two days and the numbers for HOT Mobile are similar. For comparison, ...

• Nehushtan to ‘Post:’ IAF ready for threats, including Iran

  Jerusalem Post

  Former commander of IAF comes out strongly against public discussion regarding strike on Iran; says Israel's air superiority in Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, Sinai threatened by proliferation of ...

• Israeli chess fans flock to Moscow for world championships

  Haaretz

  | May.17,2012 | 5:20 AM MOSCOW - The opening ceremony last week of the World Chess Championships here in the Russian capital was filled with dignitaries. The former president of the Soviet ...

• A rainbow of opinions at Israeli gay center

  Haaretz

  As Wikipedia enters its second decade, an Israeli couple are exploring ways to improve and share illustrations on the world's most popular source of ...

• Foreign Ministry: Deportation of S. Sudanese legal

  Jerusalem Post

  The Foreign Ministry believes it is legal to return South Sudanese migrants in Israel to their homeland, according to an internal ministry document leaked ...

• TA man charged with raping woman during burglary

  Jerusalem Post

  The Tel Aviv district attorney filed an indictment against a 20-year-old man on Wednesday, charging him with having intercourse with a woman without her consent after breaking into her ...

• Iranian Calls for 'Islamic Awakening' to Destroy Israel

  Arutz Sheva

  An Iranian official called this week for an ‘Islamic Awakening’ movement to help Palestinian Authority Arabs "demolish the Zionist regime", ...

• UN Report: Iran's Nuclear Program Slowed Down but Continuing

  Arutz Sheva

  news agency and exposed on Wednesday indicates that Iran has continued to enrich uranium and develop its nuclear program, but the sanctions that have been imposed on the Islamic Republic have slowed ...

• New Project: Robots to Patrol Borders Instead of Soldiers

  Arutz Sheva

  A new project currently being developed will have robots replacing IDF soldiers on patrols along Israel’s borders. The project was initiated by the families of Benny Avraham, Adi Avitan and ...

• Threats made against south Tel Aviv aid workers after Yishai remarks

  Haaretz

  | 3 Workers at a second Tel Aviv aid organization for migrant workers and refugees received telephone threats on Wednesday, in a sign that the tension between foreigners and locals continues to ...

• Unproven community policing program expands to more Israeli cities

  Haaretz

  The Knesset Interior and Environment Committee approved the addition of four more cities to a pilot local policing project on Wednesday - even though it hasn't been implemented fully, when at ...

• Harmful bacteria, mold found in IBA facilities in capital

  Haaretz

  Harmful bacteria and large quantities of mold have been discovered in the Israel Broadcasting Authority's building, according to a report by EcoCheck, a private company that examines workplace ...

• Hill GOP wants answers on Hezbollah leader tied to soldiers killings, set for release

  Fox News

  Republicans on Capitol Hill are furious over the Obama administration's handling of a purported Hezbollah commander, who was connected to the killing of five U.S. soldiers in 2007 and now is ...

• Barak too keen on Iran attack, says Yacimovich

  Jerusalem Post

  In interview with 'Post,' Labor chairwoman slams Iran policies of Barak, says that every nonmilitary option must be exhausted before a strike comes into play; US Ambassador Shapiro: US has ...

• Poll: Israel viewed negatively around the world

  Jerusalem Post

  Israel retained its position as one of the world's most negatively-viewed countries, according to BBC's annual poll published Wednesday night. With 50 percent of respondents ranking Israel ...

• Netanyahu to lead delegation to Czech Republic

  Jerusalem Post

  Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will lead seven ministers to Prague on Thursday for a cabinet-to-cabinet meeting with the Czech government, one of the friendliest governments toward Israel in ...

• Cabel vows to win Histadrut leadership

  Jerusalem Post

  The Histadrut labor federation must become the country's leading social organization and fight against the system that worsens social gaps, candidate for Histadrut chairman Eitan Cabel said ...

• Ministry okays adding magnesium to drinking water

  Jerusalem Post

  Prime Minister and former health minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Deputy Health Minister Ya'acov Litzman decided on Wednesday to launch a pilot project in Ashkelon to restore the magnesium to ...

• Arabs Target Samaria in Evening of Attacks

  Arutz Sheva

  agency. In one incident, terrorists hurled at least 10 firebombs at a road near the Arab village of Az-Zawiya, southeast of Kalkilye. No injuries or damage were reported. Earlier on Wednesday, ...

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