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At the close in Tel Aviv, the TA 35 added 1.79%.
The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Liveperson (TASE:LPSN), which rose 9.87% or 484.00 points to trade at 5,390.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Strauss Group (TASE:STRS) added 5.02% or 420.00 points to end at 8,779.00 and OPKO Health Inc (TASE:OPK) was up 4.75% or 41.50 points to 915.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:TSEM), which fell 0.68% or 110.00 points to trade at 16,020.00 at the close. ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd (TASE:ICL) declined 0.46% or 15.00 points to end at 3,235.00 and Israel Corp (TASE:ILCO) was down 0.37% or 600.00 points to 160,300.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange by 393 to 105 and 28 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was up 2.68% or 2.79 to $107.06 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in September unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $109.10 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.09% or 1.70 to trade at $1,828.10 a troy ounce.
USD/ILS was down 1.07% to 3.41, while EUR/ILS fell 0.82% to 3.60.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 103.89.
