Category: hostage
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Shekel weaker amid hostage release uncertainties
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A week later, the Israeli currency was appreciated against the world’s major currencies, weakening the shekel today. Early in the afternoon, the SHEKEL exchange rate – the dollar exchange rate increased by 0.82 % at 3.591/$ and Shekel – the euro rate by 0.68 % in NIS 3.705/€. Yesterday, the…
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The man behind the hostage deal breakthrough
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Steve Witkev was not a professional diplomat and had no experience in international negotiations. Nevertheless, the Jewish real estate pole in New York, an intimate friend of US President Donald Trump, has succeeded, as many have failed to make an outbreak of the hostage deal. Behind the closed doors in…
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Hostage release gives further boost to shekel
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Injecting the beginning of the implementation of the deal to issue the Israeli hostages detained in the Gaza Strip optimistic, which led the trend to exchange the past few weeks. The market expects to prove the deal with Hamas, if it leads to calming the security situation in the long…
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Shekel strengthens as hostage deal hopes rise
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The shekel price rose sharply against the US dollar this morning, and the market assessment is that the main reason is the significant progress reported in a deal to release Israeli hostages held by Hamas and a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The dollar-shekel exchange rate currently stands at 3.6328…
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Israel’s bullish markets see hostage deal as just the start
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In recent days, the financial markets in Israel have behaved as if they know something that we do not know. As rumors of a ceasefire grow, the shekel grows stronger, and stock market gains point to hopes far beyond an end to the fighting in Gaza. Market sources are optimistic…
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Crypto CEO Held Hostage In Toronto, Freed After $1 Million Ransom Payment
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It was Dean Skurka, CEO of cryptocurrency and blockchain company WonderFi to kidnapThey were held for ransom, then released after paying it 1 million dollars. According to CBC and other sources, Skorka was kidnapped in downtown Toronto around 6 p.m. on Thursday. Skurka was later released and found safe in…
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Crypto CEO Held Hostage In Toronto, Freed After $1 Million Ransom Payment
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It was Dean Skurka, CEO of cryptocurrency and blockchain company WonderFi to kidnapThey were held for ransom, then released after paying it 1 million dollars. According to CBC and other sources, Skorka was kidnapped in downtown Toronto around 6 p.m. on Thursday. Skurka was later released and found safe in…
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Israel’s main labour union calls strike as pressure mounts for hostage deal By Reuters
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By Emily Rose and Stephen Sher JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The head of Israel’s largest labor union called for a general strike on Monday to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to return Israeli hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza, as thousands of protesters took to the streets. The…
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Histadrut calls general strike for Monday over hostage deal
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Histadrut Chairman Arnon Bar-David: I came to the conclusion after speaking with the heads of the security services that the deal is not moving forward due to political considerations. The head of the General Federation of Labor Unions in Israel, Arnon Bar-David, announced a general strike starting at 6 a.m.…
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Israel recovers six hostage bodies in Gaza as polio vaccinations start By Reuters
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By Ari Rabinovitch and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The Israeli military said on Sunday it had recovered the bodies of six hostages from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip where they were apparently killed shortly before Israeli forces reached them. The Israeli military said it had recovered bodies…
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Hamas rejects Israel hostage deal – report
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The Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq reported that Hamas rejects the Israeli proposal because it does not guarantee a permanent ceasefire. The Saudi newspaper Al-Sharq reported that Hamas rejected the Israeli proposal after claiming that the offer was fundamentally different from the proposal made by US President Joe Biden. Hamas says the…