Daily Briefing Apr. 17: Israeli leadership blasé as moody economy gets stern warning
Editor David Horovitz and Tech Israel editor Sharon Wrobel on what the Moody’s Investors Service downgrade of Israel’s credit rating outlook means; Haredi draft bill controversy
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Editor David Horovitz and Tech Israel editor Sharon Wrobel join host Amanda Borschel-Dan in today’s episode.
Late on Friday, Moody’s Investors Service lowered the country’s economic outlook from positive to stable. We hear why this is significant — and what the reasons were. How did Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu respond and what are we hearing from experts in the field?
Yesterday, Netanyahu held a meeting with some of his coalition partners to discuss potential new legislation on the military draft — specifically, weighing lowering the age at which members of the ultra-Orthodox community can get a formal exemption from service. Why is this controversial?
Israel’s Eco Wave Power has developed technology to harness clean energy from the motion of waves. It has inked a first agreement with the Israel Electric Corporation to connect its wave-energy power plant and sell electricity to the national power grid. How far away are we from wave energy in Israelis’ homes?
Discussed articles include:
Dismissing Moody’s downgrade, Smotrich says any economic damage is fault of protests
Netanyahu in talks on new IDF draft law that would lower age for Haredi exemption
In first, Eco Wave to supply electricity generated from waves to Israeli households
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