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18 February 2025

Greenfield Partners team credit: Eyal Toueg Greenfield Partners closes $400m third fund

The funds were raised from institutional investors in Israel, the US, Europe and Asia and brings the total funds under management to more than $1 billion.

18/02/2025 17:04 Start ups Meytal Vaizberg
Blockaid founders Ido Ben-Natan and Raz Niv credit: Liron Weissman Israeli onchain security co Blockaid raises $50m

Blockaid protects the largest companies building onchain, including Coinbase, Metamask, Stellar, Uniswap, and World App.

18/02/2025 16:30 Start ups Meytal Vaizberg
Air Haifa  credit: ATR Air Haifa to launch Paphos flights

New Israeli airline Air Haifa will launch a new route between Haifa and Paphos in Cyprus on April 3, 2025 with six weekly flights.

18/02/2025 15:54 Tourism Stav Livne
Bladeranger Deepsolar credit: PR Bladeranger divests Deepsolar to Painreform in strategic move

Deepsolar, acquired by Bladeranger in early 2023, is a sophisticated software solution designed to optimize the management of photovoltaic solar energy fields.

18/02/2025 14:19 Energy Globes correspondent
Traffic jam on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv credit: Shutterstock Tender issued for operating Tel Aviv congestion charge

Minister of Transport Miri Regev has dropped her opposition to the project, reportedly in exchange for financing railways to Kiryat Shmona and Eilat.

Ilya Sutskever credit: Cadya Levy Ilya Sutskever's SSI raising money at $30b valuation - report

The AI startup founded last year by OpenAI founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, is in talks to raise money at a company valuation of over $30 billion, "Bloomberg" reports.

18/02/2025 12:28 Start ups Meytal Vaizberg
Dina Ben Tal Ganancia  credit: Guy Kushi & Yariv Fein El Al stock still rising despite return of foreign airlines

The Israeli carrier's share price has risen 35% since the start of the year and some analysts predict further gains.

18/02/2025 11:31 Tourism Netanel Ariel
NIS 200 bills credit: Tali Bogdanovsky Reduction in cash holdings after NIS 200 bill abolishment talk

Since September 2024 there has been a dramatic decline in the number of NIS 200 bills held by the public relative to the number of NIS 100 bills, according to Bank of Israel data.

18/02/2025 08:50 Economy Idan Eretz

17 February 2025

Teva CEO responds to 25% share price fall

Richard Francis said that the question is no longer whether Teva will survive but whether it can grow more.

17/02/2025 16:43 Healthcare Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
Unemployment in Israel fell in January

The unemployment rate in Israel fell to 2.6% in January 2025, after seasonal adjustment, from 2.7% in December 2024, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports.

17/02/2025 15:46 Economy Idan Eretz
Israel's economy grew 1% in 2024, above expectations

This figure reflects negative GDP per capita growth of 0.3%, because of population growth last year, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports.

17/02/2025 13:23 Economy Oren Dori
Israeli co Dream Security raises $100m at $1.1b valuation

The company, which protects national infrastructures, was founded by former spyware company NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio, former Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Gil Dolev.

17/02/2025 12:54 Start ups Assaf Gilead
$20b CyberArk becomes Israel's second most valuable co

The cybersecurity company's share price has almost tripled in value in the past three years.

17/02/2025 10:59 IT Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
Israel Tax Authority set to publish voluntary disclosure plan

The latest procedure, delayed for over a year, will not include an anonymous track but will have a fast track for unreported cryptocurrency assets.

17/02/2025 07:17 Economy Ela Levi-Weinrib

16 February 2025

Meitav sees Israel housing prices falling

More Israeli households are expected to prefer renting a home rather than buying their own apartment and the consequences will be negative, Meitav investment house chief economist Alex Zabezhinsky predicts.

16/02/2025 19:14 Real estate Aharon Katz
Amazon CEO welcomes release of employee Sasha Troufanov

Andy Jassy said that Amazon has not commented publicly on the hostages for fear that it would negatively impact their ability to be released, or how they were treated in captivity.

16/02/2025 16:11 Politics Assaf Gilead
Apartments sold and rented

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Tel Aviv, Ra'anana, Netanya, Mazkeret Batya, Maalot-Tarshisha and Beersheva.

16/02/2025 11:38 Real estate Nir Weiss-Vadraru
US shipment of MK-84 900 kilogram bombs arrives in Israel

One of the first steps taken by US President Donald Trump was to release the heavy deep-penetration bombs, which former President Joe Biden had halted the supply of.

14 February 2025

January CPI reading lifts inflation, housing prices rise

In the twelve months to the end of January 2024, inflation has risen to 3.8%, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports.

14/02/2025 14:29 Economy Globes correspondent

13 February 2025

Cyberattack again disrupts Israel's credit card payments

Check Point chief of staff Gil Messing: "These are the capabilities of a state actor. This does not necessarily mean Iran, but in the past Iranian entities have been behind such attacks.

CyberArk buys US co Zilla Security, reports strong Q4

CyberArk, which will pay $165 million for the US identity governance and administration company, has surpassed Teva to become Israel's second most valuable company.

Mer launches armored vehicle awareness protection system

mSphere's comprehensive monitoring eliminates blind spots, enhances detection capabilities, and enables crews to identify and respond to potential threats swiftly and accurately.

Steep fall in mortgage taking in Israel in January

Mortgage taking was down 50% from the preceding month but up 30% from January 2024, the Bank of Israel reports.

Shekel rebounds against dollar

Bank Leumi: The possibility of further appreciation of the shekel, raises the question of whether portfolio owners with high exposure to foreign exchange have a reason to hedge their investment portfolio.

13/02/2025 10:55 Market Aharon Katz

12 February 2025

Shashua's Mentee Robotics unveils robot for manual work

MenteeBot V3.0 takes on lifting tasks that would typically be strenuous for human workers over extended periods.

50% of housing deals in 2024 were developer loans

What made 2024 distinct was that 50% of deals involved special offers by contractors and developers for apartments not yet built, the Ministry of Finance reports.

12/02/2025 13:16 Real estate Arik Mirovsky
Trump administration reaffirms AI chip restrictions on Israel

Sources say the US will demand Israel passes regulations to prevent tech leakage to China and may even include removal of the restrictions as part of a multilateral Middle East agreement.

12/02/2025 11:45 Politics Assaf Gilead
Israel raises $5b international bond

Accountant General: This is an important public offering that indicates the financial stability of the State of Israel and the high confidence of global investors in the Israeli economy.

12/02/2025 10:03 Economy Oren Dori

11 February 2025

Check Point teams with Wiz to challenge Palo Alto

The veteran cybersecurity company has formed a strategic partnership with Israeli company Wiz to provide end-to-end cloud security.

11/02/2025 17:44 IT Shiri Habib-Valdhorn
Mobileye to team with Lyft on Robotaxis in Dallas

Ridesharing giant Lyft CEO David Risher said that his company will launch the robotaxis in Dallas in 2026.

Israeli predictive AI co Voyantis raises $41m

Voyantis combines predictive and prescriptive AI to eliminate guesswork traditionally involved in assessing a customer’s potential value.

11/02/2025 16:01 Start ups Globes correspondent
Intel Israel CEO named interim head of DCAI

Intel Israel CEO Karin Eibschitz Segal has been appointed Intel's interim head of Intel's data center and artificial intelligence, the third most important position at the US chipmaker.

11/02/2025 15:55 IT Assaf Gilead
Shekel weaker amid hostage release uncertainties

Bank Hapoalim: This is a correction, the shekel will continue to strengthen.

11/02/2025 13:18 Market Aharon Katz
Israeli gov't mulls tax cuts as deficit narrows

National Economic Council chairman Prof. Avi Simhon: If we are convinced this is a continuing trend, the first tax I would reduce is cutting VAT back to 17%.

11/02/2025 12:44 Economy Oren Dori
Prioritizing Israel creates problems for Elbit

Ministry of Defense demands to supply Israel first has meant overseas deliveries have been delayed, irking the Philippines in particular.

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