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Israeli water desalination plant credit: Eyal Izhar Water supply hit as 5 desalination plants shut down

Five of Israel’s six major desalination plants have been shutdown. “Globes” explains why, asks if water is still safe to drink and if we can expect water shortages.

Tobie Harris, head of Competition Authority Markets Department  credit: Rami Zarnegar Competition Authority's new challenge: Who has the data?

Tobie Harris, head of the Authority's Markets Department: Whoever possesses the market data can drive out the competition.

Ben Gurion Airport on August 20, 2026  credit: Ken Whitman Swelling wage bill, negative cash flow, constrain Airports Authority

Wage costs rose to 75% of the Israel Airports Authority's revenue in the first quarter, and no solution to Ben Gurion Airport's manpower problems is in sight.

Prof. Matt Allen credit: courtesy Prof. Matt Allen Passing family businesses from parents to children

Prof. Matt Allen, guest speaker at next week’s Globes Family Companies Conference, explains the best way to ensure the business is passed on successfully between generations.

Chinese workers in Israel credit: Shutterstock Is Israel prepared for 330,000 foreign workers?

Workers from abroad have taken the place of Palestinians but employers are not always providing the housing conditions and other services the law requires, while government enforcement is lacking.

Dr. Zeev Farber credit: Oren Levy Lightricks spinoff uses video to train robots

LTX CEO Dr. Zeev Farbman says video will not only be used for creating films and marketing content, but also for training robots, operating avatars, and building simulations.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launches national AI plan credit: GPO Maayan Toaf Israel AI Directorate unveils modest national plan

The new plan, the fourth proposed since 2019, ignores core questions such as a supercomputer, developing an independent language model, and the electricity shortage.

AI credit: Shutterstock Can AI "illusions" invalidate an arbitration award?

The arbitration award was issued, and the losing party has gone to court, blaming ChatGPT.

Aero Sentinel drone  credit: Asaf Haber Israel's Aero Sentinel challenges China's drone dominance

The company, whose plant was destroyed by an Iranian missile, seeks to replace Chinese drones in the IDF and elsewhere. Aero Sentinel CMO: This is a strategic necessity.

Histadrut chairperson Arnon Bar David credit: Histadrut spokesperson, Shutterstock Who says removing import barriers doesn't lower consumer prices?

The Histadrut, that's who. A can of tuna begs to differ.

Irregular founders Dan Lahav and Omer Nevo credit: Ben Hakim Israeli AI testing startup makes CNBC headlines

Irregular, used by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, has been investigating cases in which AI models accessed the Internet during supposedly closed environment testing.

Omer Construction co-CEO Baruch Hadad, CFO Gideon Kahlon, chairperson Zeev Salant, co-CEO Israel Rosenblatt  credit: Cadya Levy "We're better off without Palestinian workers"

Omer Construction and Engineering, which recently held an IPO, sees only advantages in foreign workers replacing barred Palestinians.

StreamElements founders Reem Sherman, Gil Hirsch, Or Perry  credit: Shlomi Yosef The rise and fall of StreamElements

“Globes” charts the demise of Israeli influencer sponsorship platform StreamElements, which raised $115 million during the Covid pandemic but has now sold its assets for a small fraction of this sum.

National Insurance Institute credit: Shutterstock National Insurance Institute heading for disaster

The Ministry of Finance wants the unemployed, students and yeshiva students to pay more but that won’t cover an annual deficit expected to swell to NIS 18 billion by 2030 and NIS 48 billion by 2050.

Cars at a port in China  credit: Shutterstock The pitfalls of buying a Chinese car and how to avoid them

Half the cars sold in Israel are made in China, but while they bring down prices, there are long-term problems to watch out for.

Amnon Shashua  credit: Eyal Izhar Amnon Shashua doubles down on doubleAI

Sources familiar with Shashua’s plans say he has stepped down as Mobileye CEO, not to slow down, but to focus his efforts on doubleAI, with an ambitious vision that could even surpass the achievements of Mobileye.

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