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25 December 2025

Knesset Finance Committee chairperson Hanoch Dov Milwidsky  credit:  Noam Moskowitz, Knesset Spokesperson's Office Knesset Finance C'ttee transfers NIS 1b to haredi education system

The transfer comes out of general budget reserves, just before the end of the fiscal year.

25/12/2025 17:33 Economy Oren Dori
Economic strength credit: Shutterstock “The Economist”: Israel is OECD’s third best economy in 2025

“Globes” looks at the five parameters on which the UK journal judges Israel to be the OECD’s third best performing economy this year.

25/12/2025 16:04 Economy Globes correspondent
Jerusalem Estate project credit: Assaf Pinchuk Foreign real estate buyers deterred by strong shekel

Continuing gains by the shekel are causing some foreign residents to reconsider plans to buy a home in Israel.

25/12/2025 15:28 Real estate Yuval Nisani
Five CEOs credit: Roy Perry, Tal Shachar and Inbal Marmari Five Israeli cos record triple digit Wall Street gains in 2025

“Globes” looks at the Israeli companies that outperformed the bullish US market this year.

25/12/2025 12:29 Market Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
Barak credit: Israel Aerospace Industries Anti-Israel Colombia integrates IAI’s Barak air defense system

According to the ZM website, the Colombian Air Force is integrating the first battery of the system, including the command and control systems and radars.

Leviathan gas rig credit: Lev Radin/Si Israel mulls gas exports to Cyprus

Under the plan, a pipeline from Israel’s offshore gas fields would connect to Cypriot LNG facilities for export worldwide.

25/12/2025 07:24 Energy Dean Shmuel Elmas

24 December 2025

Research: Israeli tech firms increase activity in Europe

The EIT Hub Israel-Planven-KPMG report found annual growth of 4.8% in the number of Europeans employed by Israeli tech companies.

24/12/2025 16:39 Start ups Globes correspondent
Analysts see home price falls continuing into 2026

Despite eight straight months of price falls, analysts expect the trend to continue in 2026 as supply outstrips demand.

24/12/2025 15:20 Real estate Maya Levin
Stock market boom brings FIMI huge gains

Israel's largest private equity firm has sold shares in seven companies that it controls to the tune of NIS 2.6 billion this year, most of it representing profit.

24/12/2025 15:11 Market
Regulator to fine El Al for price gouging

The Israel Competition Authority has completed its investigation into the airline’s fare policies during the war and will issue an intent to charge letter.

24/12/2025 13:46 Tourism Stav Livne
Changes that will affect personal finances in 2026

From investment provident funds to income tax, a range of measures will need to be taken into account.

23 December 2025

SNC: Israeli tech cos raised $15.6b in 2025

Investors are doing fewer deals but committing significantly more capital to each one, Startup Nation Central reports.

23/12/2025 17:49 Start ups Globes correspondent
ServiceNow buys Israeli cybersecurity co Armis for $7.75b

The US software company will also pay Armis employees hundreds of millions of dollars to remain in their jobs.

Smotrich doubles VAT exemption on personal imports

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has increased the VAT exemption on personal imports from $75 to $150, as of Wednesday, despite the protests of Israeli retailers.

23/12/2025 16:01 Economy Asaf Zagrizak
Shekel at 4-year strongest against US dollar

Since the beginning of the year, the shekel has strengthened by 12% against the dollar.

23/12/2025 14:33 Market Boaz Bin-Nun
ZIM board rejects improved offer from Glickman and Ungar

The board says the proposal undervalues the company and that it has received "competitive proposals from multiple strategic parties."

Israel’s tech workforce shrinking

Israel’s tech job market has become more selective with fewer companies competing for a smaller pool of sought-after talents.

23/12/2025 13:58 Employment Meytal Vaizberg
Smotrich wants 15% tax on bank super profits

The rate is higher than the team appointed to examine the tax proposed. Association of Banks: The decision has no economic logic and is contrary to the public interest.

As market slows, home sellers cut asking prices

Analysis of figures from Yad2 and the Central Bureau of Statistics shows that it could take four years to sell a home in Tel Aviv.

23/12/2025 12:03 Real estate Arik Mirovsky
US policy threatens Elbit’s PULS deal with Greece

Lockheed Martin, Elbit’s main business rival on rocket artillery systems, has not given up hope on winning the Greek contract.

22 December 2025

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
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.

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
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.

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
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
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