Ryanair, the low-cost carrier that currently operates numerous routes between Israel and Europe, caused a stir when it was revealed that when customers order a flight on the company’s website, there is an option to choose “Occupied Palestinian Territory” when putting in their personal details. Ryanair is an Irish airline, a country where many residents […]
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Prof. Yaron Zelekha, head of the School of Accounting, Economics, and Financial Management at Kiryat Ono Academic Campus, addressed the credit rating downgrade of Israel by Moody’s during an interview Sunday on 103FM. “A door to a wave of credit rating downgrades has opened here, both for other rating agencies and for Moody’s itself. The […]
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IDF officer R suffered a severe head and limb wounds while serving on the northern border, from a missile attack. He was urgently transferred to Rambam Health Care Camus in Haifa for intensive treatment, with both of his legs completely crushed. Despite his condition stabilizing, he remained in his bed with his head bandaged and […]
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More than half of Israelis suffering from psychological problems after the October 7 massacre say they don’t have the financial means for mental health care, and more than a quarter reported that they don’t receive psychological assistance due to a lack of therapists where they live. The University of Haifa and the Shalvata Mental Health […]
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Israeli investors are not excited about Moody’s credit rating downgrade of Israel, and the Israeli stock market responded on Sunday morning with relatively moderate declines, with a decrease of around 0.4% in the TA-35 index and around 0.5% in the TA-125 index. Local players in the financial sector expect the stock market to continue to […]
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Last Wednesday, a soldier who was wounded in the Gaza Strip and was battling a fungal infection died of his wounds at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Fungi from the genus Fusarium cause a wide range of infections in the human body. In patients who suffer from injuries and are in a state of […]
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Tens of thousands of reservists who served in the IDF are now gradually returning from the battlefield alongside those who continued to work during the fighting. Those coming home after long weeks and months are discovering that the real struggle has only just begun. A new study by the Israeli Institute for Occupational Safety and […]
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War over Taiwan would have such a cost in blood and money that even those unhappiest with the status quo have reason not to risk it. Bloomberg Economics estimates the price tag at around $10 trillion, equal to about 10% of global GDP – dwarfing the blow from the war in Ukraine, the COVID pandemic, […]
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There are 3,194 billionaires worldwide. Some on the list are well known, such as Elon Musk (Tesla), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), and Mark Zuckerburg (Facebook/Meta). But some names on the list arouse puzzlement, disgust, and fury, such as Musa Abu Marzouk ($2.3 billion) and Khaled Mashaal ($2.6 billion). Marzouk, senior Hamas leader, was named by the […]
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The term “second generation” is very common in Israeli jargon, referring to the projection of the Holocaust disaster and the trauma experienced by its survivors into the psyche of the next generation. Unfortunately, in trauma-ridden Israel, this did not stop there. The foundational break of the Yom Kippur War created another “second generation,” and there […]
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