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22 December 2025

Wizz Air credit: Shutterstock Wizz Air plans Tel Aviv, Eilat bases from March

“Globes” can reveal that the first route from Ramon airport that the Hungarian low-cost airline plans will be to Budapest.

22/12/2025 18:39 Tourism Asaf Zagrizak
i24NEWS credit: screenshot Amid Altice turmoil i24NEWS has uncertain future

The Israeli news channel faces cuts and chaos despite being taken over by the Drahi family, as ratings fail to take off.

Over a thousand home purchase deals cancelled  credit: Gil Gibli Home purchase cancellations on the rise

The cancellations appear to be associated with purchases through developers' special financing offers.

22/12/2025 15:56 Financial services Yuval Nisani
Eli Sharvit credit: Israel Hadari Rafael underwater surveillance unit DSIT mulls TASE IPO

The company would hope to raise about NIS 50 million at a company valuation of NIS 200-250 million, before money.

President Donald Trump  credit: Reuters US to ease tariffs on defense and diamond imports from Israel

The general tariff imposed on goods from Israel will likely remain at 15% but talks continue.

22/12/2025 14:30 Economy Oren Dori
SolarEdge flotation on Nasdaq, March 2015  credit: Nasdaq Sun shines again for SolarEdge

The company's stock has rebounded this year, cash flow is positive, and the data centers market is shaping up as a long-term growth engine.

22/12/2025 12:16 Energy Shiri Habib-Valdhorn

21 December 2025

Haifa seafront penthouse fetches NIS 6.2m

A 117 square meter penthouse on Hubert Humphrey Street has become the city's most expensive 4-room apartment.

21/12/2025 17:08 Real estate Arik Mirovsky
Mental health treatment co Syremis Therapeutics raises $165m

The Israeli biopharmaceutical company will focus on developing drugs to treat schizophrenia and Alzheimer's psychosis.

21/12/2025 15:28 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Israeli tourism to Japan jumps sharply

The weakening of the yen against the shekel has made prices in Japan very attractive for Israelis observes Eshet Tours VP Shirley Cohen-Orkaby.

21/12/2025 14:53 Tourism Yuval Einhorn
Apartments sold and rented

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Har Adar, Ra’anana, Ness Ziona, Ashdod, Akko, and Sderot.

21/12/2025 14:07 Real estate Nir Weiss-Vadraru
Dorad in power plant race after resolving legal disputes

With regulators only allowing three private power plants to be built by 2030, one of the four companies competing for them will miss out.

21/12/2025 13:16 Energy Idan Eretz
Team finds justification for taxing bank super-profits

The inter-ministerial team leaves the decision to the politicians. The Bank of Israel and the Ministry of Finance Budgets Division categorically oppose an additional tax on the banks.

Herzliya tops wages ladder

The National Insurance Institute's wages report shows rising earnings, but very wide gaps between different cities in Israel.

21/12/2025 10:54 Economy Idan Eretz

18 December 2025

Zendesk acquires Israeli co Unleash

The acquisition, estimated at $40-50 million, will enable the US software company to open an Israeli development center.

As the shekel appreciates, when might the BoI intervene?

The shekel is near a four-year peak against the US dollar, but in the recent past the Bank of Israel has intervened in the foreign exchange market only in emergencies.

18/12/2025 20:29 Economy Asaf Zagrizak
B Communications distributing NIS 2.8b to shareholders

The main beneficiaries are Searchlight Capital and David Fuhrer.

18/12/2025 17:18 Market Globes correspondent
Prime minister approves gas exports to Egypt

The $35 billion deal amounts to 22% of the the Leviathan natural gas reservoir.

18/12/2025 11:01 Politics Globes correspondent
Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second home

Nvidia’s CEO has confirmed that the US chip giant will build its huge campus for up to 10,000 employees in Kiryat Tivon.

18/12/2025 05:53 Real estate Assaf Gilead

17 December 2025

Germany approves $3.1b follow-on Arrow 3 deal

The latest deal will bring the total amount Germany is spending on the long-range missile defense system to more than $6.7 billion - easily the biggest defense deal in Israel’s history.

Compugen restructures AstraZeneca deal to boost cash coffers

Under new CEO Eran Ophir, the Israeli drug discovery and development company has converted potential future royalties into immediate cash.

17/12/2025 16:09 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Job vacancies in Israel hit three-year high

The growing number of job vacancies together with very low unemployment reflects a tight job market in Israel.

17/12/2025 15:28 Employment Oren Dori
Nvidia in talks with Mega Or to build huge data center

Mega Or Holdings data centers unit Mega DC is in talks with US chip giant Nvidia to build a 64-megawatt data center in the Mevo Carmel industrial park near Yokneam.

17/12/2025 14:42 Real estate Assaf Gilead
Administrator sues Slice management for NIS 1b

The lawsuit describes the Slice affair as "the biggest and worst case of breach of savers’ trust that the pension savings sector in Israel has ever seen."

17/12/2025 13:54 Financial services Amiram Gill
Elbit’s mystery $2.3b customer named as UAE - report

“Intelligence Online” reports that Elbit Systems huge new deal signed last month is with the UAE.

Israeli cyber co Cyera triples valuation within a year - report

According to "The Wall Street Journal", Cyera is raising $400 million at a $9 billion valuation.

17/12/2025 10:31 Start ups Assaf Gilead

16 December 2025

Nvidia to pay NIS 90m for Kiryat Tivon site

A deal for the land on which Nvidia will build its new Israel campus is expected to be signed within the coming days.

Next Vision wins biggest ever order

The order for the company's stabilized cameras and other products is worth $76.8 million.

Tom Livne, Eyal Waldman raising $200m for SPAC

The SPAC is intended for the acquisition of an Israeli cybersecurity or AI company.

15 December 2025

Poolside AI targets Israel’s defense sector

The US company, which has developed an autonomous software development engine, is hiring Israeli engineers and hopes to sell its software to Israel’s defense sector.

15/12/2025 20:13 IT Assaf Gilead
Inflation in Israel continues to fall

Israel’s Consumer Price Index fell 0.5% in November 2025, and home prices fell for the eighth straight month.

PwC: Israeli tech exits up 340% in 2025

The report also shows a major increase in the number of companies being sold for low amounts, after many companies that raised a lot of capital in 2021 did not prove they could grow.

US blocks missiles for Elbit’s EuroPULS launchers - report

The US has not approved use of American rockets and missiles in EuroPULS launchers, the European version of Elbit System’s PULS, manufactured together with Germany’s KNDS, “Defense Express” reports.

Viola Ventures closes $250m in new VC funds

The funds, which will invest in the next generation of Israeli startups, include the first dry close of flagship Viola Ventures 7 Early-Stage Investment Fund and Viola Conviction Fund I.

15/12/2025 15:00 Start ups Globes correspondent
Most analysts see shekel strengthening

The exception is Citi, which insists that the Israeli currency is 19% overvalued.

15/12/2025 14:38 Market Netanel Ariel
Apartments sold and rented

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Tzur Hadassah, Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Or Yehuda, Shlomi and Ashkelon.

15/12/2025 13:40 Real estate Nir Weiss-Vadraru
Foreign investment pours into Israeli stocks

Stock purchases by overseas investors in 2025 amount to $2.3 billion, and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange believes the switch to Monday to Friday trading could accelerate the trend.

15/12/2025 12:49 Economy Eitan Gerstenfeld
Who decides if China will build the Metro?

Amid growing US pressure, and waning interest from European companies, the question of Chinese involvement in Israel’s biggest infrastructure project returns to the fore.

14 December 2025

Consultants back ZIM board against opposition shareholders

Both ISS and Glass, Lewis & Co. recommend supporting the board's candidates for directorships.

12 dead in attack on Hanukah event in Sydney

One of the gunmen involved in the attack at Bondi Beah is dead; the other is in critical condition.

14/12/2025 15:09 Politics Globes correspondent
Alpha Tau Medical up sharply as brain cancer trial begins

The company's share price rose 21% on Nasdaq last week.

14/12/2025 10:27 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Israeli cyber co Armis in talks on $7b sale - report

According to a report by Bloomberg, a deal with US company ServiceNow could be announced within days.

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