Construction starts surge, transactions stall: More declines ahead?
Transactions stagnate, unsold apartment inventory rises, and prices fell 2% this year – CBS reports a 31.5% surge in construction starts, with over 81,000 apartments begun.
Business & Innovation
Israel's biotech moment: How science, data, and geopolitics are converging - opinion
Smotrich threatens to double tax on Israeli banks if consumer benefits canceled
New Israeli airline TUS IL recruiting pilots as commercial operations set to start in 2026
TAU and Google Israel launch three-year program to advance research in artificial intelligence
Google.org to provide $1 million in funding to launch the program.
Your Taxes: Leaving Israel? Leave your pension here
Section 87 seeks to preserve such monies until retirement age (men, age 67, and women, age 64, generally). The penalty for early payout is a 35% tax charge.
Your Investments: The cost of investor overconfidence
It’s much easier to make money when everything keeps going up. The temptation for investors is to start taking more risk than they are able to handle.
Nice presentations, less reality: Supervision in urban renewal under criticism
Promises abound, but poor standards in inspector selection pose risks in urban renewal. Experience shown often differs from actual execution, warn industry sources.
Why Israel must reinvest the billions from the Armis sale into its tech ecosystem - opinion
The temptation for Israel to use the billions earned in the Armis sale to plug budget holes is immense, but that would be a historic mistake.
Navigating the digital world: A parent’s guide to online safety - opinion
Parents don’t need to monitor every corner of the Internet. They do need to know their children have the tools to handle it.
Israeli tech firms deepen European presence
New study by EIT Hub Israel, Planven and KPMG shows annual growth of 4.8% in the number of Europeans employed by Israeli technology companies
Israeli tech salaries rose in 2025, but jobs fell and gaps widened
Tech jobs in Israel are no longer growing, and the number of enterprises hiring new staff has decreased to only 1,350 in 2025
Beersheba’s southern command to be vacated and transformed into a residential and leisure complex
The Subcommittee for Planning and Construction in the Beersheba Municipality has recommended depositing the plan “The Command Compound – Heart of the Old City.” The next hot spot in Beersheba.
Rocket crashes in Brazil's first commercial launch, Innospace shares tumble
The rocket began its vertical trajectory as planned after liftoff at 10:13 p.m. local time (0113 GMT), but fell to the ground after something went wrong 30 seconds into its flight.
