Surprise! Stamp prices go up 17%
Postal rates went up final Thursday with no bell or open debate: The communications and financial ministries lifted the cost of sending a e-mail inside of Israel to NIS 2 from NIS 1.70, a 17% increase. No authorized reason was since and no matter was expelled after Communications Minister Moshe Kahlon and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz sealed the order. Israelis should remember, however, that stamp prices have not been practiced for acceleration or other expenses for a couple of years, and Israel Postis in financial trouble. CEO Haim Almoznino told the TheMarker not long ago the firm might face bankruptcy. The post office says the cost of a stamp should obviously be NIS 2.20, and put presure on the ministries to elevate prices. (Amitai Ziv)
Israel demands caller sum from airlines
Israel is tightening its organisation over incoming visitors. The Interior Ministry has destined unfamiliar and Israeli flight operators to palm over sum of incoming passengers from April 1. Until now, the airlines usually gave the method the names of sociable passengers - and usually on urge - with the difference of flights from Israel to the United States. In that case, all names were handed over. The data the method wants includes names, addresses, pass figures ! and phon e numbers. Meanwhile, the unfamiliar airlines have asked the method for more time to prepare. But because would the method wish such a list? Tourism sources think the reason might be credentials for other liquid of harmony activists, programmed to beginning on April 15. (Zohar Blumenkrantz)
Knesset expands physical phenomenon discounts
More comparison citizens, people with disabilities and single-parent family groups will right away be authorised to take discounts on electricity, the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee motionless yesterday. The 50% bonus relates to the initial 400 kilowatt/hours a month. Going by national averages, this is a inexhaustible subsidy for those bad family groups authorised is to subsidy. The median household's monthly expenditure is 635 kilowatt/hours. But if damaged down by income, the lowest 10% devour just 132 kilowatt/hours on average. The richest 10%, in contrast, devour an median of 1,661 kilowatt/hours a month. (Itai Trilnick)