Israel business

The curse of being Israel's most valuable company

Tower's share price has jumped nearly 900% in the past five years, but less than 24 hours after reaching the top, the world's chip stocks plummeted, and Tower's share price tumbled 10.79%

In January, Israel’s Ministry of Defense signed a multi-year contract with Semiconductor Devices valued at approximately $115 million (NIS 380 million).
A bunch of Israeli New Shekel banknotes in the hand on the Bills background.Conceptual Image for Finance and Banking

Shekel gains sharply despite interest rate cut

David Alexander, Deputy CEO of Phoenix Financial

Evolving regional economic opportunities

David Group founder Stella Cohen and Chairman Raanan Agus

Israeli private equity firm David Group launches to invest in mature businesses


Israel job vacancies hit highest rate since December of 2022, CBS says

The total number of job vacancies in Israel rose to 152,134 in December, compared with 150,953 in November

People looking for work as unemployment rises

Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI startup AI21 Labs for up to $3 billion

A 2023 funding round valued AI21 at $1.4 billion. Nvidia and Alphabet's Google participated in that funding.

NVIDIA

Wine Talk: From winemakers to farmers

For the Flam boys, the deep cellars, aromas of the winery, and dark corners were a playground that beckoned them into a world of wine.

Flam's vineyard snakes through the valley.

Israeli AI startup Anchor Browser raises $6M in seed round

Anchor Browser has successfully developed a breakthrough infrastructure enabling reliable, secure and stable Agentic AI web operations for browser environments

Anchor founders

Regulator tells Horesh-Harel not to help choose ICC-CAL CEO

Union Investments and Harel are due to buy the ICC-CAL stake at a company valuation of NIS 3.75-4 billion, depending on the credit card company's performance

Using a credit card.

HP Israel to lay off up to 90 employees as part of global cost-cutting plan

The reorganization plan at HP was first presented in November 2022, at the height of the crisis in the global tech industry due to rising interest rates.

HP Indigo building, Ness Ziona, Israel.

Bank of Israel chief warns of deep war impact even as economy shows resilience

The governor of the Bank of Israel talks about how even the optimistic scenario of the end of the war does not guarantee a soft landing.

 BANK OF Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks at a news conference in Jerusalem last month. The regulatory shaming announced by the central bank this week is a step in the right direction, the writer maintains.

Amid war and investor pullback, US fund manager Ezra Gardner keeps faith in Israeli tech

Ezra Gardner, who co-founded the most active foreign VC fund in Israel, warns that overseas investors are shunning the country, but still says he’s “never been more optimistic” about it.

Ezra Gardner

Shekel surges as Trump announces Israel-Gaza ceasefire

The shekel-US dollar exchange rate was set at NIS 3.2420/$ and the shekel-euro rate set at NIS 3.7635/€.

 Gold Is Now Outperforming Stocks and Bonds

JVP raises $290M from TPG to propel insurtech unicorn Earnix’s AI revolution

Deal delivered an 8.7x return to early investors

Earnix