יצרנית הרכב הגרמנית ב.מ.וו (BMW) דיווחה על ירידה של יותר משליש ברווח ב-2024, זאת על רקע "המשך ביקושים חלשים בשוק הסיני". לפי הודעת החברה, הרווח הנקי נפל בשנה שעברה בקרוב ל-37% ל-7.68 מיליארד יורו (8.32 מיליארד דולר), זאת בהתאם לתחזיות האנליסטים. מניות החברה נפלו לאחר הדיווח ב-3.5%. בחברה גם הזהירו כי למכסים המתוכננים במסגרת מלחמת הסחר צפויה להיות השפעה שלילית על ההכנסות בשנה הנוכחית. "סביבה תחרותית ותנאים מאקרו כלכליים מאתגרים, התפתחויות במסחר ובזירה הגיאופוליטית עלולים להיות כולם בעלי השפעה משמעותית על הביצועים העסקיים", מסרה החברה בהצהרה. התחזית מתייחסת לכל המכסים שנכנסו לתוקף נכון ל-12 במרץ, ביניהם מכסים של 25% על…
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The Israeli embassy in Cyprus hosted renowned Chef Shaul Ben Aderet along with Chefs Itamar Fadida and Ben Shaham at the embassy’s 74th Independence Day celebrations. The embassy held four events during the second week of May to mark the holiday.On Monday, May 9, the embassy hosted a special lunch at the Center for People with Mental Health Disabilities in Nicosia District, which serves people from 12 different communities. The event was held with the full participation of center staff, families and community leaders. The event included a tour of the center and conversations with the staff and sponsors,…
Israeli dance company LEV recently performed at the National Theater in Taipei, presenting the final episode of the trilogy “The Brutal Journey of the Heart” at the Taiwan International Festival of Arts (TIFA).Sharon Eyal and Guy Bacher, the company’s co-directors and dancers, had already brought their choreography “OCD LOVE” to Taiwan in 2017, with great success, and were therefore invited to perform again.“With her fascinating and dark style, Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal continues to turn the torturing experience of love into the frantic energy of dance and ruminate upon the heartbreaking nakedness and thrills with body movements and whirls…
The Embassy of Israel in the United Kingdom marked Israel’s 75th Independence Day with a celebrated event at Outernet – an immersive entertainment venue in the Soho neighbourhood in the heart of London. The facility offers public galleries featuring giant Ultra HD screens capable of delivering the most high-quality audio-visual experiences in the world.Attending the reception were about 1000 senior guests including members of parliament from both the Conservative and the Labor parties, lords, foreign ambassadors – including the representatives of the countries of the Abraham Accords – journalists, influencers, senior members of the Jewish community, religious leaders, managers…
An Israeli play featuring two actors who starred in two popular Netflix series opened a major theater festival in Cyprus at the end of October with the support of the Embassy of Israel in Nicosia.The play "He Who My Soul Loved" by the Habima National Theater, was chosen to be the opening performance of the Nicosia International Festival. At the center of the story is Jonathan, a 17-year-old boy from a religious family who is forced to come out of the closet and then to undergo conversion therapy after he is seriously injured in a terror attack against a…
An exhibition of Israeli art was inaugurated at the Off The Wall Gallery in Houston, Texas, in May. The initiative was organized by the Israeli Consulate to the Southwest, as part of the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel.Titled “Homeland/Moledet,” the exhibition featured pieces of both Israeli artists and American artists whose work is inspired by Israeli and Jewish themes.“This is a great opportunity to celebrate our independence in a very unique and special way with an exhibit that showcases the diversity and uniqueness of Israeli art,” Livia Link-Raviv, consul general of…
Former hostage Eli Sharabi presented US President Donald Trump with a framed cartoon which featured Holocaust survivors next to released hostages during his visit on Wednesday.Created by political cartoonist Peter Brookes at The Times, the cartoon was first published in the newspaper on February 10, two days after the hostages depicted were released.The cartoon read "Never Again" above the Holocaust survivors, and "Again" above the hostages, which included Sharabi, Or Levy and Ohad Ben Ami, who were released together. It illustrated a clear, visual link between the tragedies of the Holocaust and the Nazis’ treatment of the Jews, compared…
The war between Israel and Hamas has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza's population in poverty, with quality of life indicators such as health and education knocked back 70 years, the United Nations' development agency said on Tuesday.Launching a study on the war's socioeconomic impacts, the UNDP's Chitose Noguchi said the economy of the Palestinian territories – the Gaza Strip and the Israeli-occupied West Bank – was now 35% smaller than it was at the start of Israel's invasion of Gaza a year ago.By some measures the poverty level in Gaza was now approaching 100%…
In 2022, researchers discovered fragments of the left side of a human face in the Sima del Elefante cave in northern Spain. Nicknamed Pink, the fossil dates back between 1.1 and 1.4 million years, marking the oldest known evidence of hominins in Western Europe, according to The Guardian. The fossil, found among about 6,000 remains, includes a partial left upper jaw, cheekbone, and some teeth, but its species cannot be conclusively identified, reported NBC News.Within the same sedimentary level as Pink, researchers found quartz and flint tools alongside animal bones bearing cut marks from butchering, suggesting these early ancestors…
Underwater director Tahsin Ceylan and his team recently discovered ancient structures beneath the icy waters of Lake Van in Turkey, capturing images of tower-like formations and wall remnants at a depth of 15 meters near Akdamar Island. According to Haberler, they managed to obtain images from under the ice in the coastal areas."Even in harsh winter conditions, Lake Van is beautiful in its own way," said Ceylan, as reported by Milliyet.The diving team included members from the Coast Guard Lake Van Group Command, the Turkey Underwater Sports Federation Van Representative, and Van Diving School Instructor Serkan Ok. Coast Guard…