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Plans envisage waterways flowing through neighborhoods in a rehabilitated Haifa Bay in northern Israel. (Yaar Architects/Israel Lands Authority)
May 24, 2024, 11:26 am
Inside the plan to turn Haifa’s befouled bay into a livable urban hub rivaling Tel Aviv
The Gateway to the Bay project will replace polluting factories and oil storage tanks with 130,000 new homes, walkable streets, beaches, parkland, canals and clean, green jobs
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
June 29, 2020, 7:08 pm
Polluting Haifa oil refineries must close by 2025, PM’s economic adviser demands
In landmark move, National Economic Council and Environmental Protection Ministry recommend shutdown of Bazan facilities, to be replaced with green residential and commercial hub
By Sue Surkes
View of the oil refineries in Haifa Bay, May 5, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
June 17, 2020, 2:47 pm
Report on polluting Haifa refinery finally emerges, but outlook still hazy
Heavily redacted paper written for PM’s office recommends shutting down Bazan facilities rather than relocation, but shies from any decisive conclusions
By Sue Surkes
Avi Simhon, the chairman of National Economic Council, at a conference organized by the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon in Jerusalem, December 8, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 18, 2020, 12:35 pm
PM’s top economic adviser: Lockdown will come when we feel we’re losing control
Avi Simhon explains how Israel’s leadership is deciding on policy; estimates coronavirus crisis could cost economy more than NIS 50 billion but says it will quickly bounce back
By Raphael Ahren
US President Donald Trump speaks during a press briefing with the coronavirus task force, in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, in Washington, March 16, 2020. (Evan Vucci/AP)
March 16, 2020, 11:33 pm
US tells older people to stay home, all ages to avoid crowds
Trump acknowledges pandemic may send the US economy into a recession, suggests nation may be dealing with the coronavirus until ‘July or August’
By Jonathan Lemire, Andrew Taylor and Jill Colvin
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center left, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, center right, attend a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 20, 2017. (Lintao Zhang/Pool Photo via AP)
October 30, 2019, 7:24 pm
Under pressure from US, Israel forms panel to examine foreign investments
Washington has repeatedly pressed Jerusalem to step up safeguards against Chinese investment in the Jewish state as Sino-Israeli business ties grow
By ToI Staff
A French Jewish new immigrant kisses the ground after arriving at Ben Gurion airport in Israel on July 10, 2017. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 20, 2018, 1:43 am
Israel prepares for major influx of French Jewish immigrants
Government believes some 200,000 are interested in leaving France and is looking to put together an absorption package to entice them to make aliyah
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
French Jews arriving at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, November 2, 2016. (JTA/IFCJ)
December 9, 2018, 3:18 pm
Diaspora minister seeks plan to boost French immigration
‘200,000 French Jews want to come here,’ Naftali Bennett tells cabinet, insists ‘assimilation crisis, apathy among Jews’ causing Israel-Diaspora rift
By ToI Staff
US conservative commentator and economic analyst Larry Kudlow speaks on the set of CNBC at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on March 8, 2018 in New York. (AFP/Bryan R. Smith)
March 13, 2018, 6:32 pm
Trump praises TV pundit Kudlow as possible economic adviser
US president looking ‘very strongly’ at analyst to replace Gary Cohn, who left White House last week over tariffs disagreement
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) with Welfare Minister Haim Katz at a press conference announcing the raising of disability allowances, January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 3, 2018, 5:30 pm
Ministers raise 2018 disability benefits budget by NIS 2 billion
PM and welfare minister call move ‘historic step’; protest leaders scoff at ‘nicely packaged gift with nothing inside,’ say they won’t ultimately get more than previously agreed
By Raoul Wootliff
Disabled people and their supporters block the entrance to Jerusalem in protest of inadequate stipends, September 7, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 24, 2017, 11:40 pm
Cabinet approves NIS 1.45 billion budget increase for disabled
Additional aspects of long-sought agreement to be hammered out in budget negotiations next month
By ToI Staff
Disabled activists block Ibn Gvirol street in Tel Aviv as part of a protest calling for an increase in government stipends, August 31, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 1, 2017, 9:17 am
Rejecting deal, some disabled protesters renew road-jamming protests
Junction north of Tel Aviv blocked as group seen as main force behind traffic-halting actions calls stipend boost ‘shameful’
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: View of the Tel Aviv skyline in a dense sandstorm, September 08, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 28, 2017, 4:28 pm
Derelict economy could sink ‘Titanic’ Israel, experts warn
New research paints worrying picture of decades of neglected national priorities leaving the country without the resources to face existential threats
By Raoul Wootliff
President and COO of Goldman Sachs Gary Cohn speaks onstage during Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 13, 2015 in Washington, DC. (Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Fortune/Time Inc via JTA)
December 12, 2016, 11:22 pm
Trump taps Goldman Sachs exec to head his economic council
President-elect, who blasted the banks during campaign, selects Gary Cohn, a fourth senior staffer to have worked for financial giant
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with then-cabinet secretary and current Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, May 26, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/ Pool/ Flash90)
January 3, 2016, 4:36 pm
Cabinet secretary Mandelblit approved as new attorney general
Ministers okay former IDF legal chief as nation’s new top law enforcer; economist Avi Simhon appointed state economic adviser
By ToI Staff
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