Business

Former El Al chief rejects monopoly, price gouging claims after Iran war profits

"Two crises in five years, each of which lasted two years plus, with a small break in the middle. That's extreme and had a dramatic impact on the aviation sector."

AN EL AL flight takes off at the Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, August 14, 2025.
Factory 54 at Ramat Aviv.

Breaking the market: Factory 54 invests NIS 30M in its flagship complex at Ramat Aviv Mall

Q-Factor is led by professors from the Technion, the Weizmann Institute, and experts in the world of deep-tech startups.

Q-Factor emerges as Israel’s latest quantum computing developer with $24 million seed investment

Israeli shekel

Revised income tax brackets boost March salary


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

In a year defined by AI euphoria and crypto volatility, a self-funded operator is demonstrating that the oldest form of capitalism – owning the shop, remains the most potent.

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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.

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.