Israel business

Knesset about to pass budget already seen as irrelevant

In the event of an extensive ground operation in Lebanon, the legislative process will start all over again, with revised deficit and growth forecasts

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at cabinet meeting to vote on 2026 budget, December 5, 2025.
Cyber Is Not a Luxury.

Iranian emigre entrepreneur wages war on hackers

The latest Business and Innovation podcast episode with Dr. Dekel Taliaz and Anna Ahronheim.

This Israeli company uses AI to speed up psychiatric care post-Oct. 7

Amir Heshmatpour.

Iran-born anti-regime Nasdaq biotech investor says he is trying to cure ‘two cancers’ - interview


Connect/Israel brings together businessmen from Israel, US and Gulf

In Israel, the group met entrepreneurs such as Dov Moran and Sylvan Adams.

 Connect Israel took young businessmen from Israel, the US and the Gulf on a trip through the Middle East.

Wolt to expand to 15 new communities near Rishon, Rehovot

Wolt was established in 2014 in Helsinki, Finland, as a convenient, fast and serviceable food delivery platform. It began operating in Israel in 2018. 

 A courier working with Wolt, a meal delivery app service, rides a scooter as he delivers an order from a restaurant, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Tel Aviv, Israel July 9, 2020.

Israeli stocks teeter on Wall Street brink

BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The sharp decline in the US stock exchange seems to be hitting Israeli tech companies harder than anticipated.

 TRADERS WORK on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week.

SparkIL provides Israel's small business owners a much-needed boost

SparkIL, established in partnership by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ogen Group, is the first peer-to-peer lending platform for supporting Israeli small businesses.

 David Elimelech and his girlfriend, Jennifer, display their goods.

TaTiO raises $5.3m. for hiring platform focusing on skills, not résumés

The company uses artificial intelligence to assess job seekers’ skill sets, recommending them to employers without the need for old-fashioned resumes.


Israel’s largest law firm reflects on 50 years of change

“I spoke Hebrew at home, but did not have great Hebrew, and then he made me an offer. The magic word was it was in dollars. I focused on ‘dollars’ and didn’t hear the number,” said a partner.

 View of office and apartment highrise buildings in central Tel Aviv, on November 27, 2017

This AI platform aims to help corporations fix their sustainability issues

Continue AI has announced a $5.7M funding round that it will use to further develop its AI platform.

Artificial intelligence

Israel’s UN Climate Tech Delegation for COP27 announced

These are the 10 companies that will make up the delegation representing Israel's climate tech industry on the world stage.

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Joonko raises $25m., enabling huge US companies to hire diversely

The company was founded in order to help companies hire more underrepresented individuals. Here's what it has planned.

 The team at Joonko.

Bank Leumi CEO: It's difficult to recruit talent for banking system

The CEO of Bank Leumi spoke about the difficulty in recruiting talent for the banking system, the severe recession in Europe and Israel's economic status.

Israelis walk past a branch of Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv