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Blockchain has become an issue in this week’s Israeli elections after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that the country could turn to cryptocurrency to avoid strains on the economy from any potential international financial sanctions. He told a local television interviewer that Israel is exploring the use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies as a means of circumventing potential banking sanctions. “Blockchain is an alternative to sanctions,” the prime minister said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 10 economic network on Friday. His calling blockchain a “national strategic tool” signals a pivot in the government’s stance on the digital currency industry, from an investment event into part of the country’s economic defense strategy, reported CryptoJungle, Israel’s largest crypto media platform. A dozen Western countries have announced sanctions targeting goods from Israeli settlements in the West Bank in response to Jewish settler attacks on Palestinians and an increase in settlement construction approved by Netanyahu’s right-wing government. Those sanctions could extend into Israel proper, economists and industry figures told The Times of Israel last month

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Open this photo in gallery:The Bank of Canada’s governing council, led by Tiff Macklem, will either keep the policy rate as is or launch a possible series of increases starting this Wednesday. Justin Tang/The Canadian PressJohn Turley-Ewart is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail, a regulatory compliance consultant and a Canadian banking historian. Making ends meet may soon be harder. The Bank of Canada’s governing council, led by Tiff Macklem, will make the determination. It will either keep the central bank’s policy rate as is, at 2.25 per cent, or launch a possible series of increases starting this Wednesday. For many if not most Canadians, the prospect of higher interest rates could not be more ill-timed. If you own a house or want to, if you have a job or need one, run a business or plan to, or you are just keeping your head above a sea of debt, the Bank of Canada decision will be personal. Mr. Macklem recently indicated the bank’s decision amounts to a calculated answer to this question: Will inflation, driven higher by energy prices to 3.1 per cent in September, revert to the bank’s 2-per-cent target six months to a year from now?