Amos Uzani, Port of Haifa dorector manager, said that since the crisis began, Haifa Port had lost over NIS 30 million revenue mainly due to the fact it was operating at 15-20% of capacity

Manufacturers Association managing director Yoram Blizovsky said last week that the nonstop barrage of Hezbollah missiles was devastating businesses in northern Israel, from the port of Haifa to Nazareth

Minister of Finance Avraham Hirchson said that the rate hike was too high, and did not reflect Israel’s deployments for protecting its coastline and ports

passengers arrivals at Ben-Gurion Airport over the first three weeks of July fell 5%

Finance Ministry representatives including budgets director Kobi Haber, representatives of the employers and employees sectors signed late last weeka compensation deal for damages caused to businesses by hostilities in the north

At present, El Al Israel Airlines is the only Israeli airline with designated carrier status on the Tel Aviv-Paris route

according to local experts Israel's war with Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon should not derail the state's strong economy as long as fighting ends soon

The logistics cost of the IDF land forces, after ten days of fighting, in the war against Hizbullah, in Lebanon, had totaled NIS 100 million