Thursday, December 19

Tag: Tel Aviv

Someone bet against the Israeli stock market in the days before Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
5Dec By adminNo Comments
Money

Someone bet against the Israeli stock market in the days before Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack

Five days before the deadliest attack in Israel's history, a warning may have appeared on stock exchanges.A study by researchers from Columbia University and NYU called "Trading on Terror?" suggests that a trader may have been aware of the coming attack, bet against the Israeli economy and walked away with a profit by short selling on the U.S. and Israeli stock exchanges.Short selling is a trading strategy aimed at making a profit off an asset that is expected to drop in price; the seller "borrows" a security and sells it on the open market with the goal of buying it back later at a lower price and pocketing the difference. The study looked at the Israel Exchange-Traded Fund, a common way for people to make investments in Israel, which on any given day ...
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Thailand’s Hostage Crisis in Gaza Takes a Shocking Turn: ‘I’m Not Dead Yet!’
29Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Thailand’s Hostage Crisis in Gaza Takes a Shocking Turn: ‘I’m Not Dead Yet!’

NA PHO, Thailand—Four days after Hamas militants tore through southern Israel, a mournful procession of local officials here in Thailand’s bucolic east came to tell the family of Wichai Kalapat that the 28-year-old fruit farmer was among those killed. His girlfriend, Kittiya Thuengsaeng, hung a picture of him outside her front door.On Saturday, Wichai appeared, Lazarus-like, in footage from a prisoner exchange. Shortly before midnight, his bewildered siblings happened to glimpse him, smiling from the back of a white Red Cross landcruiser, in a picture on Facebook, reluctant to believe it was him until his face appeared on a video call hours later.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Air India suspends Tel Aviv flights till Nov 30
5Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

Air India suspends Tel Aviv flights till Nov 30

NEW DELHI: Air India has suspended its scheduled flights to Tel Aviv till November 30 amid the tensions between Israel and militant group Hamas. The airline has not operated a scheduled flight to and from Tel Aviv since October 7. An airline spokesperson on Sunday said flights to Tel Aviv have been suspended till November 30. Normally, the full-service carrier operates five weekly flights to Tel Aviv from the national capital.The service is on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Last month, the airline operated a few chartered flights to Tel Aviv from the national capital under the government's Operation Ajay to bring back Indians who wished to come back from Israel against the backdrop of the escalating conflict.!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { function loadFBEvents(isF...
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For Israel, a War Unlike Any Other
3Nov By adminNo Comments
World

For Israel, a War Unlike Any Other

The existential threat hanging over the country has united Israelis, whose divisions were so evident over the past year, but a reckoning is near for the failed leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu
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The Mission Sounded Impossible: Make Ambulances Fly
21Oct By adminNo Comments
World

The Mission Sounded Impossible: Make Ambulances Fly

Listen to article(1 minute)Yoav Halper’s phone rang on the worst Saturday morning of his life with a call that he was expecting.It was a few hours after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7 when Halper first heard from his contacts at Magen David Adom, the country’s national ambulance and paramedic organization. They needed as many ambulances as they could get as fast as they could get them—and they knew just the person to call. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Biden Lands in Tel Aviv to Meet Israeli Leaders Amid Hamas War
18Oct By adminNo Comments
World

Biden Lands in Tel Aviv to Meet Israeli Leaders Amid Hamas War

WASHINGTON—President Biden landed in Israel on Wednesday to reaffirm U.S. support for its longtime ally in the war with Hamas, one day after a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza demonstrated the volatility of the conflict and heightened fears of escalation.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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