Business

Another exit in the restaurant world: BBB Group buys pizza chain

After burgers and Mexican food, the major restaurant group enters the pizza market for the first time: It acquired the American Dolce pizza brand for NIS 1 million.

American Dolce pizza
THE DIGITAL universe ignores geographic borders, but there are various kinds of physical infrastructure needed to facilitate data traveling. Pictured: Futuristic Data Center with Server Racks in Big Warehouse.

Israel's ADC to build Albania's first data center

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100% ownership at billion-dollar scale: Inside Gurhan Kiziloz's Nexus International

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The business lessons behind Gurhan Kiziloz's $1.7B net worth


Israel’s Economic Leadership convenes for National Economic Conference

Ministers, business leaders, and senior capital market figures will gather later this month at the Peres Center to chart Israel’s roadmap for 2026 at a flagship summit hosted by Maariv, Walla & Jpost

Maariv & Walla Economic Summit 2026

The domino effect: Why "cheap" financing can be the most expensive deal an entrepreneur signs

“Cheap” financing often comes with low interest, rigid credit, personal guarantees, and tight cash flow. It may look attractive on paper - but the reality behind it can be a costly surprise.

What looks cheap on paper can cost a lot in reality.

Exit in the restaurant world: Burger chain sold for tens of millions of shekels

Nono Group acquires 50% of GDB for NIS 32.5 million: The group, which owns Giraffe, Mimi, and Takaria, expands into the burger segment in a deal valuing the chain at NIS 65 million.

GDB

Gurhan Kiziloz builds world-beating companies

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After a staggering success in Israel: PITMASTER opens kosher branches in the U.S.

The Miami branch will open in April 2026 at Aventura’s Waterways Shoppes, while the New York branch is under construction, with its opening planned later this year.

PITMASTER.

Your Investments: Ran Gvili, the Exodus from Egypt, Tu Bishvat and your money

We have it great in Israel. Remember how back in the old country we celebrated by going to the dentist after cracking some teeth eating the hard, wood-tasting boxer (carob)?

Tu BiShvat.

Your Taxes: AI dos and don’ts

AI is a smart colleague, but it doesn’t know everything. True intelligence is knowing when to use AI and where to stop.

AI and Economy.

TikTok influencer shutters Ramallah café, alleges $100K scam linked to PA official

A TikTok influencer claimed that two Palestinians in the West Bank, one linked to the Palestinian Authority, “scammed” her out of more than $100,000, leading to her arrest.

Daoud's GoFundMe for her Ramallah cafe.

Israeli co Factify raises $73m to make PDFs obsolete

In one of the biggest seed rounds ever completed, Factify aims to replace PDFs with intelligent records that allow AI to take charge of documents

Person holding mobile phone with PDF file icon  on the screen

US-Iran flare-up, cold stint push oil prices to multi-month peak

JPMorgan analysts estimated that winter storm Fern cut US oil production by roughly 250,000 barrels per day, disrupting flows from the Bakken and from fields in Oklahoma and Texas.

Blue barrels of oil.