Your Taxes: What makes Israeli hi-tech tick
Venture capital (VC) funds provide capital, education, and financial discipline to clever young geeks. The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) provides R&D grants.
Banking & Finance
Your Investments: Remaining optimistic in the face of Iranian missiles and golden calves
Bank Hapoalim posts NIS 9.8b. 2025 profit, sets dividend and buyback
Israeli tech hiring continues during wartime, GotFriends survey finds
TASE more attractive than Wall Street after 127% surge, says Peilim’s Sarit Steiner
Since the outbreak of the was in October 2023, the Tel Aviv 125 index has risen 127%, double the S&P 500 index.
Your Investments: Personal and financial intensity
In synagogue a few days ago, while waiting for the evening prayer to start, we got into a discussion about Mishloah Manot (giving food to friends and family).
Your Taxes: Doing business in Israel in 2026
Israel’s tax treaties and the OECD Multilateral Instrument refine these criteria for foreign companies.
Tech Talk: Deel puts $15m. behind YC-style global start-up competition, launching in Tel Aviv
Deel has structured the competition into seven in-person regional finals across major tech hubs, with Tel Aviv hosting the first event on March 23, 2026.
Your Investments: I’ll take both the blue and the purple dresses
If you can honestly differentiate between needs and wants, you’ll be in a much stronger financial situation and ultimately be able to indulge every now and then in a luxury item.
Your Taxes: Mortgage blues and what to do about them
The war has drained the economy and people of spending power. How can demand from the public for homes be increased? What ought to be done?
Israeli companies grew more when listed in Tel Aviv than on NASDAQ, study reveals
Double-listed companies outperformed their overseas counterparts, with trading volume growth of 68% versus 55% for the NASDAQ.
Discount Bank launches “Smart Future,” Israel’s first-of-its-kind digital pension planning platform
This innovative digital platform is designed to help customers plan and manage their pension savings and insurance
Your Investments: The key to responsible planning after receiving an inheritance
"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin." - Henry Cabot Lodge.
Your Taxes: Israel moves charities online for tax breaks
Starting in 2026, details of each donation reported are immediately stored electronically on the ITA’s system. The donor can access these details online.
