Roads and airwaves fall silent, but security and rescue services remain on high alert on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.

All flights in and out of Ben Gurion airport ceased at 1:35 p.m.. The airport will reopen Wednesday night with arrivals starting at 9:30 p.m., while departures will resume at 11:30 p.m. Public transport also gradually halted with buses and trains stopping their routes until after the fast day.

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Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Monday issued a stop-construction order against a Palestinian facility in Kardala village in the Jordan Valley.

Activist Aref Daraghmeh said that the IOF ordered a halt to the construction of a medical and social services complex in Kardala village.

The IOF constantly targets Palestinian families living in the Jordan Valley with demolition"...

Some 600,000 Palestinian-Americans were harmed by the closure of the PLO’s office in Washington, Quds Press reported yesterday.

A statement released by the Palestinian Council in the United State said that the closure of the PLO’s office “is another American step towards liquidating the Palestinians issue”.

“The consequences of the closure"...

The Gaza strip's economy will shrink further this year and into 2019 while its deepening financial hardships could spillover to the West Bank through the banking sector, the International Monetary Fund warned.

Gaza's economy is expected to contract four per cent this year and 1.5 per cent in 2019 in the face of a worsening humanitarian crisis aggravated by large aid cuts and revenue losses, the IMF said in a report on Monday. The West Bank"...

France will abolish a tax imposed on the capital gains of top earners and entrepreneurs who leave France and sell their assets with a more-targeted levy designed to deter tax optimisation, a finance ministry spokesman said on Saturday.
France imposed the so-called “Exit Tax” in 2011 during the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
It required individuals who held assets in stocks and bonds of more than 800,000 euros (£711,874) or at least 50 per cent of the capital of a company to pay capital gains"...

President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued Federal Decree-Law No. 07 of 2018 amending articles within Federal Law No. 02 of 2015 on Commercial Companies.

The Decree stipulates that Article 14 of Federal Law No. 02 shall be amended to reflect that the Memorandum of Association of a company and each amendment thereto shall be made in Arabic and attested by a competent authority, failing which the Memorandum of Association or the amendment thereto shall be null and void. If the Memorandum"...

The Egyptian government is said to be angry that Israel is still warning its citizens not to travel to the Sinai Peninsula as it is not safe for tourism because of possible terror attacks, Yedioth Ahronoth has reported.

According to the newspaper, Israel’s Council for National Security has confirmed that there is still a serious risk of attacks against Israeli tourists by Egyptian armed groups allied to Daesh.

The"...

Unemployment in the occupied Palestinian territory rose to more than 27 percent in 2017, the world's highest, while per head income contracted 11 percent, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in its annual report.

The per head income declined along with agricultural production shrinking by 11 percent, as socioeconomic conditions in the past year worsened, UNCTAD said in it its yearly report on its assistance to the Palestinian"...

Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, has asked that its annual budget be increased in order for it to face “the growing threats to Israel’s national security”, local media reported.

Israeli Channel 7 reported yesterdaythat the Mossad has asked to increase its budget by billions of dollars due to the increasing size of its operational activity.

According"...

Seven emerging economies at risk of an exchange-rate crisis are Sri Lanka, South Africa, Argentina, Pakistan, Egypt, Turkey and Ukraine, according to a new analysis by Nomura Holdings.

With five of the seven already in a currency crisis or a programme run by the International Monetary Fund, that leaves South Africa and Pakistan as the standouts.

At the same time, the eight"...