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01 July 2025

Ben Gurion Airport credit: Shutterstock Dmitry Pistrov Airlines want retroactive exemption on compensation claims

Airlines want the Israeli government to declare a 'special situation' so they need not pay accommodation and other expenses for passengers stranded abroad.

01/07/2025 18:22 Tourism Stav Livne
Dollars credit: Shutterstock Israeli startups raised over $1.5b in June

Israeli privately-held tech companies have raised $4.8 billion in the first six months of 2025, according to IVC-LeumiTech.

01/07/2025 16:41 Start ups Globes correspondent
Abandoned building in Haifa credit: Tamar Matsafi Haifa seeks to renovate 700 abandoned buildings

A survey revealed that there are some 700 abandoned buildings in Haifa, which wastes land resources, scars the urban fabric, the housing market, and costs the municipality NIS 33 million annually in lost taxes.

01/07/2025 15:15 Real estate Arik Mirovsky
TASE CEO Itay Ben-Zeev  credit: Cadya Levy TASE board approves Friday trading

The change will bring the TASE into line with the trading days of the world's main stock markets, which do not trade on Sundays.

01/07/2025 14:04 Market Hezi Sternlicht
F-15 US Air Force fighter jet credit: Reuters Mark Cosgrove US Air Force to integrate Israeli co TSG's software system

TSG today announced that it had received its first order as part of a cooperation agreement that it signed in March with a leading international military technology supplier.

30 June 2025

Rafael wins $2.2b Romanian air defense deal

This will become the second largest defense sale ever by Israel, after the sale of Israel Aerospace Industries Arrow 3 air defense system to Germany for $3.5 billion.

All Israelis will foot bill for mandatory rooftop solar panels

Generous subsidies for rooftop solar panels means that all electricity consumers will receive higher electricity bills.

30/06/2025 18:06 Energy Idan Eretz
Israeli tech companies raised record amounts in Q2

IVC-LeumiTech and StartUp Nation Central have issued reports on fund raising with very different numbers but both agree tech sector actiovity has returned to the boom days of 2021.

30/06/2025 15:48 Start ups Meytal Vaizberg
Teva launches startup challenge program

Challenges will be announced twice a year for startups to offer technological solutions for Teva's entire drug development chain.

30/06/2025 14:39 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Cato Networks raises $359m at $4.8b valuation

The Israeli cybersecurity company has seen its valuation jump from $3 billion in less than two years.

30/06/2025 13:00 Start ups Assaf Gilead
THAAD's Israel deployment proves effective but expensive

The US system carried out 60-80 missile interceptions of Iranian missiles launched at Israel but at a far higher cost than Israel's Arrow system.

29 June 2025

Landa Digital Printing seeks court protection

Benny Landa's company has sought a stay-of-proceedings due to a cash flow crisis.

29/06/2025 17:59 Legal Assaf Gilead
Treasury: Iran, Gaza fighting won't widen fiscal deficit

Accountant General Yali Rothenberg says the increase in government spending will be almost completely offset by higher revenue from taxes.

29/06/2025 15:38 Economy Oren Dori
Gasoline prices to rise in Israel Monday night

Contrary to some of the early volatile scenarios about a surge in the price of barrels of oil worldwide, the oil market has responded with relatively moderate spot increases.

29/06/2025 14:46 Energy Oren Dori
Apartments sold and rented

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Zikhron Yaakov, Ashkelon, Meitar and Eilat.

29/06/2025 14:22 Real estate Nir Weiss-Vadraru
Lewis family sells NIS 210m Isrotel stake

After selling the stake, the Lewis family's holding in the Israeli hotel chain will fall from 74% to 69.6%.

29/06/2025 12:59 Market Hezi Sternlicht
Is a BoI interest rate cut on the cards?

Bank Leumi nostro management head Danny Yardeni says the reduction in geopolitical uncertainty makes a cut sooner rather than later a possibility.

29/06/2025 12:34 Economy Hezi Sternlicht
Chief of Staff: Iran no longer a nuclear threshold state

The assessment of Israel’s military establishment is that even if elements of its nuclear program remain intact, Iran is a long way from being able to develop a nuclear weapon.

29/06/2025 10:47 Politics Globes correspondent

26 June 2025

Weizmann Institute launches crowdfunding campaign

Besides its regular donors, the institute is asking the general public to help restore facilities hit by an Iranian missile. Ben Gurion University has embarked on a similar campaign.

26/06/2025 20:24 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Mobileye soars after launch of Tesla's Robotaxi

The much heralded launch this week of Tesla's Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas has boosted the entire autonomous driving sector.

26/06/2025 15:56 Market Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
Bank of America optimistic on Israel

Bank of America sees it likely that the shekel will appreciate as the risk premium decreases, which will help reduce inflationary pressures while GDP accelerates.

26/06/2025 14:42 Economy Maya Levin
Cellcom sells stake in fiber optic cable co IBC

Completing the sale for NIS 520 million will produce a respectable capital gain for Cellcom, which initially invested NIS 121 million.

26/06/2025 11:23 Market Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
El Al to resume regular flights from Sunday

Few foreign carriers are expected to fly to Tel Aviv over the summer but flyDubai restarted Israel flights Wednesday night.

26/06/2025 07:18 Tourism Stav Livne

25 June 2025

Treasury presents retroactive unpaid leave, grants plan

Israel's Ministry of Finance has been working on several changes to the plan to adjust it to the unexpectedly swift end of the operation.

25/06/2025 18:22 Economy Oren Dori
Azerbaijan's SOCAR completes acquisition of 10% Tamar stake

SOCAR is paying Aaron Frenkel $1.25 billion for the stake in the Israeli offshore gas field.

25/06/2025 17:02 Energy Dean Shmuel Elmas
Rafael buys Tel Aviv office space for NIS 521m

Government-owned Rafael Advanced Defense Systems is buying 16,000 square meters in the Cosmopolitan 1 project in Tel Aviv's Hassan Arafa district.

25/06/2025 15:17 Real estate Yuval Nisani
UK Co-Op supermarket chain to boycott Israeli goods

The Co-Op has become the first supermarket chain in the UK to impose a boycott on Israeli goods due to the war in Gaza.

25/06/2025 12:42 Politics Assaf Uni
Few flights, high fares await Israeli travelers this summer

The situation will only ease once foreign airlines return. "Globes" has put together information that travelers may be seeking.

25/06/2025 11:41 Tourism Stav Livne
Xero buys Israeli fintech co Melio for $3b

The New Zealand cloud-based accounting software company says that buying Melio's pay platform will help it expand in the US market.

25/06/2025 06:59 Financial services Assaf Gilead

24 June 2025

Home Front Command lifts all restrictions

Following Tuesday morning's ceasefire, Israelis will be allowed to return to work and schools can reopen Wednesday morning.

24/06/2025 20:32 Economy Globes correspondent
NIS 100b flowed into TASE during Iran operation

A jump of 7% in the Tel Aviv-125 Index, since the successful surprise attack on Iran on June 13, makes the TASE one of the best performing stock markets in the world.

24/06/2025 17:22 Market Hezi Sternlicht
As shekel gains strongly, is it heading for NIS 3/$?

The fall in Israel's risk premium following the operation in Iran is behind the recent shekel appreciation.

24/06/2025 15:38 Market Eitan Gerstenfeld
Israeli ophthalmic surgery co ForSight Robotics raises $125m

The company has developed the ORYOM robotic surgery platform for cataract and other eye diseases.

24/06/2025 14:39 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Ben Gurion airport plans gradual return to normal operations

UAE carrier flyDubai has already indicated it can restart Israel flights tomorrow, if the ceasefire holds.

24/06/2025 12:36 Tourism Stav Livne
Stocks resume rise, shekel strengthens further

The ceasefire between Israel and Iran has again reversed the direction of the stock market, with the banks leading the rises.

24/06/2025 10:31 Market Globes correspondent
Trump: Ceasefire in effect

Israel has officially accepted the ceasefire brokered by the US and Qatar. Four people were killed this morning in a direct hit by an Iranian missile on a building in Beersheva.

24/06/2025 09:32 Politics Globes correspondent

23 June 2025

Israel has negated Iran's suicide drone threat

While Israel struggled to deal with Hezbollah's suicide drones last year, enhanced capabilities have almost eliminated the threat.

Steep fall in rental ads since start of Iran operation

The number of apartments without protected rooms being advertised for rent has fallen more sharply than those with protected rooms, property management company DiffeRent has found.

23/06/2025 18:00 Real estate Arik Mirovsky
Comedian Zvika Hadar selling Tel Aviv home for NIS 16.5m

The 340 square meter house in Tzahala, on a 400 square meter lot, includes eight large bedrooms.

23/06/2025 15:56 Real estate Arik Mirovsky
Israel's Treasury unveils unpaid leave and grants plan

The Ministry of Finance's plan for businesses and employees is retroactive from the beginning of the operation against Iran until June 30.

23/06/2025 14:55 Economy Oren Dori
The shekel doesn't lie: Why Israel's capital market is soaring

A major component of Israel's risk premium is disappearing before our eyes, explains Finessa Capital CEO Gat Megiddo.

23/06/2025 14:35 Economy Gat Megiddo
Shekel at 30-month strongest against the US dollar

Since the start of the war against Iran earlier this month the shekel has gained 3% against the dollar and has strengthened by 8% against the US currency over the past year.

23/06/2025 14:16 Market Hezi Sternlicht
El Al seeks to avoid compensating stranded passengers

The Knesset Economics Committee will discuss El Al's demands with Minister of Transport Miri Regev then required to declare a 'special situation.'

23/06/2025 09:36 Tourism Stav Livne
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