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17 April 2025

Hearst Tower New York credit: Shutterstock Hearst Ventures shuts down Israel office

The closure is part of a global move to shut down offices outside the US, but the fund will continue investment in Israeli companies.

17/04/2025 15:23 Start ups Assaf Gilead
US President Donald Trump credit: Shutterstock US reciprocal procurement demands put Israel in a bind

Reciprocal procurement on major tenders injects billions of dollars into Israel every year and supports hundreds of local companies but Israel may need to relax them in exchange for US tariff cuts.

Israeli stocks on Wall Street credit Nasdaq, Raanan Tal, Itay Tagar, Space Cut design: Tali Bogdanovsky Despite turmoil, analysts bullish on Israel Wall Street stocks

After recent strong declines, analysts are tipping Israeli tech stocks, with relative immunity to recession and limited exposure to tariffs.

17/04/2025 09:58 Market Shiri Habib-Valdhorn

16 April 2025

Will Intel's sell-off include Israeli assets?

After the sale of Altera, "Globes" considers whether the troubled chipmaker will sell Mobileye or its Kiryat Gat fab.

16/04/2025 10:41 IT Assaf Gilead
Bow River Capital buys Israeli co CloudShare

The Denver-based alternative asset manager is paying an estimated $60-80 million for the SaaS provider of AI guided solutions for complex technical training requirements.

16/04/2025 09:45 Start ups Globes correspondent
Israel's housing price rise riddle

Despite a huge inventory of unsold new homes in central Israel and weak sales, apartment prices are still rising. "Globes" analyzes the data.

16/04/2025 09:15 Real estate Arik Mirovsky

15 April 2025

March CPI higher than expected, housing prices rise

The March reading brings annual inflation in Israel down to 3.3% from 3.4% at the end of February.

15/04/2025 20:07 Economy Boaz Bin-Nun
Abundance of affordable last minute Passover flight deals

The return of foreign airlines to Israel has brought down fares dramatically even for last minute vacations.

15/04/2025 16:27 Tourism Stav Livne
Kesem Energy signs gas deals worth $2.8b

The power plant, scheduled to begin operating in 2029, will buy gas worth $2 billion from Energean and a further $700-800 million from the Tamar partners.

15/04/2025 10:24 Energy Idan Eretz
Why are yellow cap Coca Cola bottles different from all others?

Nostalgic Coca Cola aficionados claim that the kosher for Passover version, made from sugar cane instead of high fructose corn syrup, is the genuine taste of the soft drink.

15/04/2025 09:19 Basic industries Yuval Peso

14 April 2025

Exclusive: Avigdor Willenz's Element Labs raises $50m

The Israeli startup is developing AI processors for inference, the stage in which AI models are activated after they have already been trained.

14/04/2025 17:15 Start ups Assaf Gilead
SSI hiring dozens in Israel

AI company Safe Superintelligence is hiring many dozens of people in Tel Aviv, "Globes" has learned.

14/04/2025 16:28 Start ups Assaf Gilead
Apple SVP leads senior delegation of execs to Israel

Jony Srouji: I am always filled with renewed energy and optimism about our shared achievements when I visit our R&D centers here.

14/04/2025 15:49 IT Meytal Vaizberg
Apartments sold and rented

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Petah Tikva, Givat Shmuel, Tiberias and Dimona.

14/04/2025 15:01 Real estate Nir Weiss-Vadraru
French investors buy 2 Tel Aviv apartments for NIS 27.5m

The two apartments are in Hagag Group's Infinity Tower in the Summeil district.

14/04/2025 12:39 Real estate Yuval Nisani
El Al receives state approval to distribute dividend

The Israeli airline has now announced that it will be able to distribute up to 30% of net profit in 2025 and up to 40% in 2026-2028.

14/04/2025 11:11 Tourism Netanel Ariel

10 April 2025

Israeli observability co groundcover raises $35m

groundcover has developed a “Bring Your Own Cloud” (BYOC) observability solution, redefining the architecture of a modern observability platform.

10/04/2025 17:21 Start ups Globes correspondent
Foreign investment in TASE hits five-year high

Foreign investors have been flocking to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in recent weeks, the TASE research department tells "Globes."

10/04/2025 16:54 Market Netanel Ariel
Elbit Systems wins $100m tank turret systems deal

The Israel defense electronics company will supply its advanced UT30 MK2 unmanned turret systems to General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS) to be supplied to a NATO European country.

Trump targets SentinelOne exec in act of revenge

The US administration has suspended the security clearance of the company's chef intelligence and public policy officer Chris Krebs and everyone associated with him.

10/04/2025 13:50 IT Assaf Gilead
TASE opens sharply higher after Trump U-turn on tariffs

The pause is being interpreted as a climb down after US President Donald Trump admitted he had made the move to calm the markets.

10/04/2025 10:45 Market Globes correspondent

09 April 2025

Up 250%, Ashot Ashkelon wins another Defense Ministry order

The Israeli defense company's share price has risen 250% in the past three years since FIMI Opportunity Funds acquired control.

Insight Partners Liad Agmon steps down as managing partner

Serial entrepreneur Agmon has served as a partner at Insight Partners Israel alongside Daniel Aronovitz who set up the Israel office.

09/04/2025 15:45 Start ups Assaf Gilead
Shekel slide resumes amid escalating tariff war

The Bank of Israel is not expected to intervene in the forex market despite the sharp depreciation of the shekel.

09/04/2025 13:24 Market Aharon Katz
Palo Alto Networks mulls buying AI security co for $700m

Sources inform "Globes" that on Palo Alto's radar is Protect AI.

08 April 2025

Israeli officials confident on US tariff concessions

Senior Israeli figures believe that concessions could be tied to progress on strategic regional political issues that are important to President Trump.

08/04/2025 18:54 Politics Oren Dori
"The market has priced in all the bad things"

Phoenix Investment House CEO Avner Hadad says US markets could continue to fall, but that we are close to interesting territory for patient investors.

08/04/2025 17:47 Market Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
C'ttee seen recommending no cut in gas exports

The Dayan committee on the future of the gas sector estimates that Israel's natural gas reserves will run out in 2045.

08/04/2025 14:45 Economy Idan Eretz
Israel's fiscal deficit continues to narrow

The deficit narrowed in the twelve months to the end of March 2025, for the sixth consecutive month, Ministry of Finance accountant general Yali Rothenberg reported today.

08/04/2025 14:31 Economy Oren Dori
Arkia cuts Tel Aviv - New York April fares

Arkia has cut fares at the last minute, a time when prices usually soar even higher, according to the pricing method used in the industry.

08/04/2025 14:09 Tourism Stav Livne
BoI Governor: US tariffs could push up inflation in Israel

Prof. Amir Yaron tells "Globes" that there is a risk that the new tariffs will cause inflation to rise in the US, with a knock-on effect for Israel.

08/04/2025 12:46 Economy Aharon Katz
Netanyahu fails to persuade Trump to remove tariff on Israel

Asked by reporters whether Israel would be exempted from his tariffs policy, US President Donald Trump replied, "Maybe not. Don’t forget we help Israel a lot."

08/04/2025 08:44 Economy Globes correspondent
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