The airline's target audience includes immigrants from Russia andneighboring countries who will make family visits, businesspeople, and Russian tourists to Israel

The port of Eilat said that at the end of October it had 24,000 new vehicles in storage and that additional 6,200 vehicles are due to be delivered in early November

El Al received the full payment for the plane when the contract was signed in October. In May El Al completed an order for four 777-200Ers from Boeing

The bank decided to lower its export growth forecast in view of the expected recession in Europe and North America, which account for two-thirds of Israel's exports

The shekel was the world's strongest currency against the dollar in the 12 months preceding this summer, when a weak dollar bought as little as 3.22 shekels

The port issued a request asking importers to clear containers due to heavy backlog at the port's container terminal

The meeting was devoted to discussing possible actions by the state to handle the expected slowdown in both the global and Israeli economies

The uncertainty in world economy has led the IMF to cut its global growth projections for 2009 to 3%, the slowest pace since 2002