Business

Birthright convenes 350 global leaders in Tel Aviv at first Global Business Summit

The three-day gathering combined talks on Israeli technology and investment with a donors’ gala and visits to communities supported by the organization.

Prof. Miriam Adelson receives the Lifetime Champion Award at the Gala Evening. From left: Gidi Mark, Adelson; President Isaac Herzog.
A rainbow-sprinkled doughnut.

Pistachio, chocolate and a price freeze: Israel’s Hanukkah doughnut season begins

Tal Jacobson, CEO of Perion.

An Israeli company is being sold for $420 million

Dyson's new flagship store in Israel

Betting on AI and robotics, Dyson opens Glilot flagship store in Israel


Birthright Israel to hold first Taglit Global Business Summit in Tel Aviv

The gathering reflects Birthright Israel's impact both on Jewish communities worldwide and on Israel's economy.

Participants on a Birthright Israel program.

Massive NIS 5.75m. fraud: Attempted to shift blame and sentenced to prison

The Ramle Magistrate's Court sentenced Avner Elouk, owner of Sagiv Fire Protection Technologies, to 44 months in prison after he was convicted of severe tax offenses.

44 months in prison and a fine for company owner convicted of deducting fictitious invoices worth NIS 5.75 million.

Without seed capital: Four young Israeli entrepreneurs sell AI startup for millions of shekels

Four Israeli entrepreneurs, all 28, sold their AI startup Vizby less than a year after founding it, without raising outside funding from investors.

Eylon Zefania, Yoni Cohen, Aviv Yovel, and Michal Elyasaf, co-founders of Vizby.

Air Haifa announces Cal's FlyAll as first credit card partner for reward flight redemptions

FlyAll is the only card in Israel that lets customers redeem accumulated funds for flights on all four Israeli airlines and various international carriers.

An Air Haifa ATR-72-600 aircraft.

The week behind a bug fix could become AI training data

Release notes preserve the answer. Connected engineering records can explain the investigation that made it possible.

The investigation can outlast the release note.

California's proposed wealth tax makes business domicile part of the exit analysis

Proposition 40 could affect billionaires with California residency ties, prompting business owners to review company domicile, personal residency and ongoing state tax obligations.

California’s proposed wealth tax is putting business domicile under scrutiny in exit planning.

Over 3,000 businesses attacked in French riots as insurance damages top $1 billion

Alongside convenience stores and small businesses, branches of fashion and lifestyle giants, including Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Dior, and Ralph Lauren, have been looted.

A destroyed car near the Marianne statue at the Place de la Republique, with a yellow vest put on it, the day after clashes during a national day of demonstrations against the cost of living and rising fuel prices, in Paris, France, October 18, 2026.

Ex-unit 8200 alumni sell Elementary Data for Some $45 million

The startup, founded in 2021 and having raised just $8.5m. until now, is joining American company Boomi. The product enables data teams to spot failures in real time and prevent business errors.

Elementary Data employees.

Huge exit: The Israeli company sold for $6.3b.

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint will acquire Israeli information security firm Varonis Systems in a massive deal.

"Our mission is to secure artificial intelligence and the data that feeds it." Yaki Faitelson

US, Israeli business groups unite to strengthen economic ties amid growing anti-Israel backlash

Regional economic development groups from across the US united at a Michigan summit to promote Israeli investment, strengthen commercial partnerships and counter growing opposition to business ties.

(L-r) Michigan Israel Business Accelerator CEO Mark Davidoff, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest Elad Strohmayer, MIBA Board Chair Howard Handler, and Chaim Martin, Israel's Minister of Economic Affairs to the United States, pose at the first U.S.-Israel Innovation Exchange Summit in Detroit, M