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Bank Leumi becomes first Israeli bank to issue covered bonds to foreign investors

Hanan Friedman Bank Leumi CEO, "I am proud that Leumi is the first Israeli bank to lead this important step of opening the Israeli market to such issuances.”

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Maya Eisen Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech

LeumiTech and IVC wrap up 2025 with first findings from their joint high-tech report

Right to left: Eyal Ben-Haim, Yehuda Setton, Eric Fingerhut

Jewish Agency, JFNA launch $130m. loan fund from Bank Leumi for reservists

 Maya Eisen-Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech

Israeli tech sector raises $2.72 billion in Q2 2025, led by cyber and AI


Unique in the landscape

LeumiTech CEO Yifat Oron explains how the bank is boosting Israel’s hi-tech success.

YIFAT ORON, CEO of LeumiTech, Leumi Group’s hi-tech subsidiary

Leumi Tech CEO: Looking at things differently

Hi-tech and start-ups in Israel require special attention and treatment, says Yifat Oron

Hi-tech employees attend Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in Tel Aviv last month, held for the first time in Israel

How Equifax’s data breach threatens Israeli security

US consumer credit company hack could provide intelligence data for Iran, says expert

CREDIT-REPORTING company Equifax Inc. corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 8

Reports of money laundering on the rise in Israel

Money laundering - the practice of concealing the origins of illegally-obtained money - helps finance terrorist and criminal groups.

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One-on-one with an Israeli revolutionary

Some consider political activist and criminal lawyer Barak Cohen a violent bully; for others he is a source of inspiration. In an interview he explains more about his tactics and offers advice.

Israelis take part in a demonstration against austerity measures in Tel Aviv in 2013

Knesset seeks expanded subpoena powers to probe banks’ secret deals

Lawmakers seek expanded powers to force banks to reveal confidential information about customers.

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‘We’ve got to change the norms’

American-Israeli Eliezer Jaffe works to bring interest-free loans to first-time home buyers.

ELIEZER JAFFE, founder and president of the Israel Free Loan Association, wants to help first-time home buyers with their down payments

'Fortune' ranks Israeli Bank Leumi CEO among most powerful women

Russak-Aminoach, the only Israeli on the list, was ranked 43rd on the 50-strong list dominated by countries such as the UK, China and Switzerland.

Bank Leumi CEO and President Rakefet Russak-Aminoach

Kahlon, Flug strike deal on financial sector reform

Proposal would spin credit card companies out from biggest banks, allow them to become banks in their own right.

Moshe Kahlon

NGO: No protection for Israeli banks with PA ties in terrorism lawsuits

Last February, a US jury handed down a $655.5 million judgment in wrongful death damages against the PA in a case brought by 10 American families that lost relatives in Palestinian terrorist attacks.

A WOMAN uses an automated teller machine outside a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv three years ago.