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04 December 2025

Bank of America credit: Shutterstock Tero Vesalainen Bank of America forecasts strong Israel GDP growth

Bank of America sees strong GDP growth of 4.2% in Israel in 2026 followed by 4% in 2027.

04/12/2025 17:23 Economy Eitan Gerstenfeld
Lior Div Credit: Cybereason Cybersecurity AI agents co 7 AI raises $130m

The company was founded by Cybereason founders Lior Div and Yonatan Striem Amit.

04/12/2025 16:15 Start ups Globes correspondent
Benjamin Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich  credit: Alex Kolomoysky Yediot Ahronot Finance Minister on 2026 budget: Banks will be taxed

At a press conference today in advance of the government discussion of the budget, Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said the main aim was to reduce the cost of living.

04/12/2025 15:21 Economy Asaf Zagrizak
easyJet  credit: Shutterstock easyJet to resume Israel flights in March

The UK low-cost airline has said it could operate flights from Tel Aviv to more destinations than before the war.

04/12/2025 15:18 Tourism Stav Livne
Average wage in Israel credit: Shutterstock Rita Kapitulski Average wage in Israel rising faster than inflation

The average wage for Israeli workers in October 2025 was NIS 13,620, according to initial estimates by the Central Bureau of Statistics, up 2.9% from October 2024.

04/12/2025 14:00 Employment Idan Eretz
Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport credit: Omer Hacohen Wiz leases offices in Tel Aviv’s Landmark 2 tower

The Israeli cybersecurity company is leasing space at a discount, as part of Cyberstarts efforts to concentrate its portfolio companies in one location.

04/12/2025 13:31 Real estate Assaf Gilead
Zim CEO Eli Glickman credit: Itay Rappaport Hapag-Lloyd bids for ZIM

The German shipping giant is apparently not the only company to have expressed interest. ZIM's workers are fiercely opposed to a sale.

Pitango co-founder Rami Kalish  credit: screenshot Pitango scores Polish exit

OpenAI has bought Polish company NeptuneAI, in which Israel VC firm Pitango was the first investor through its Polish arm TDJ Pitango Ventures.

04/12/2025 11:10 Start ups Assaf Gilead

03 December 2025

Israel-US trade talks close to agreement

Tariffs on Israeli exports to the US will be cut from the proposed 15% but will not be uniform for all industries.

03/12/2025 18:59 Economy Oren Dori
Court orders ICL to pay NIS 250m for Dead Sea water

Israel’s High Court of Justice has ordered ICL’s Dead Sea Works unit to pay for water pumped from 2018.

03/12/2025 17:48 Legal Jennifer Silon
APM merges with Paulina Ben-Ami to expand IP practice

Israeli law firm Amit Pollak Matalon & Co. has announced a merger with Paulina Ben-Ami, which specializes in intellectual property.

03/12/2025 16:49 Legal Galit Hatan
Tel Aviv home prices fall as other cities gain ground

Tel Aviv homes remain Israel’s most expensive but the gap in prices has narrowed, according to “Globes” urban real estate rankings.

03/12/2025 15:51 Real estate Arik Mirovsky
Israeli cloud backup co Eon raises $300m

“Globes” revealed last month that Eon was set to complete the financing round at a company valuation of $4 billion.

03/12/2025 14:10 Start ups Globes correspondent
Israel’s Arrow 3 becomes operational in Germany

Despite the war, Israel has met its commitment to deliver the €3.5 billion anti-ballistic missile defense system on time.

03/12/2025 13:12 Aerospace & defense Assaf Uni
US summer camps co raises debt in Tel Aviv

Simad Holdings' camps cost up to $16,000 per participant. The offering is part of a revival of the primary market on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

03/12/2025 13:03 Real estate Eitan Gerstenfeld
Fears Nimbus project may lack funding

Urgent security needs are taking priority in the 2026 budget, and the Nimbus cloud computing project meant to upgrade government services could fall victim.

02 December 2025

IDF restructures tech divisions

As part of the lessons learned from the war, the Israel Defense Force has established AI and Spectrum Divisions.

OECD sees sustained post-war growth in Israel

The OECD sees strong GDP growth in 2026 and 2027, lower inflation and more interest rate cuts.

02/12/2025 17:15 Economy Oren Dori
Israeli startup Zafran Security raises $60m

Zafran has also launched its agentic exposure management suite, positioning it to complete the entire end-to-end lifecycle across asset inventory, vulnerability detection, risk assessment, and autonomous remediation workflows.

02/12/2025 16:00 Start ups Globes correspondent
Ministries told to cut budgets to fund higher defense spending

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear that he plans to increase the defense budget by NIS 250-350 billion over the next decade.

02/12/2025 15:26 Economy Oren Dori
Real estate company financials reveal housing market trends

Sales volumes and prices fell steeply in the first nine months of this year, although the picture is uneven.

02/12/2025 13:46 Real estate Hezi Sternlicht
Egypt gas deal approval linked to lower domestic prices

The Energy Ministry will approve the $35 billion gas export deal providing gas producers commit to lowering gas prices for the Israeli economy.

02/12/2025 13:27 Market Idan Eretz
Treasury slams haredi conscription bill

The Ministry of Finance Budgets Division says the bill will not reduce the burden on reserve soldiers and will cost the economy tens of billions of shekels annually.

02/12/2025 11:15 Economy Asaf Zagrizak

01 December 2025

Apax Partners to buy Yad2 for $950m

UK private equity firm Apax Partners has signed an agreement to acquire the Israeli second-hand market site from US private equity firm KKR.

Electromagnetic launch co Moonshot Space raises $12m

The Israeli company is developing an electromagnetic spacecraft launcher built like a rail track pointing to the sky.

Herzog law firm expands Rubinstein Towers lease to 23 floors

The new agreement includes the lease of four floors in the West Tower, in addition to 19 floors it already occupies in the East Tower.

01/12/2025 18:21 Real estate Maya Levin
Israel’s top 3 defense firms rise in global rankings

Elbit Systems, Israel Aerospace Industries and Rafael are all ranked in the world’s top 34 defense companies for 2024 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Israeli startups raised $1.4b in November

Israeli privately-held tech companies have raised over $9 billion in the first eleven months of 2025.

01/12/2025 15:56 Start ups Globes correspondent
Apartments sold and rented

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Jerusalem, Mevaseret Zion, Netanya, Haifa, Nesher and Netivot.

01/12/2025 14:58 Real estate Nir Weiss-Vadraru
Former president Reuven Rivlin leaves Electreon


Rivlin will take up the post of digital currency company BitCore, which seeks a Tel Aviv Stock Exchange listing.

01/12/2025 14:54 Market Eitan Gerstenfeld
Iron Beam to become operational this month

MAFAT head Brig. Gen. (res.) Danny Gold told DefenseTech Week 2025 in Tel Aviv that the laser defense system will be delivered to the IDF on December 30.

Salignostics starts selling saliva-based pregnancy test in Germany

Jerusalem-based Salignostics is also developing its saliva tests for diagnosing a range of infections.

01/12/2025 14:03 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Investors back Doral's optimism

Doral Group Renewable Energy Resources' stock price has soared as it indicates it will complete US projects in time for tax breaks.

01/12/2025 12:38 Energy Idan Eretz
Greece close to $3.5b deal for Israeli air defense systems

Israel Aerospace Industries CEO Boaz Levy: Interest in the Barak MX is not confined to Greece.

30 November 2025

Netanyahu asks for pardon

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted a request to President Isaac Herzog for a pardon "to attain unity in the people and to restore confidence in the institutions of the state."

30/11/2025 14:51 Politics Amiram Gill
Ondas continues Israel defense-tech buying spree

Through a series of acquisitions in Israel, starting with Airobotics, the US company has built an autonomous systems division, and it aims to expand further.

27 November 2025

Wizz Air CEO: We'll open Israel hub in April

Jozsef Varadi made the commitment in a meeting with Minister of Transport Miri Regev, although not all issues have been settled, and the Histadrut threatens disruption.

Politics cloud annual Israel-France business gathering

Chambre de Commerce France-Israel president Henri Cukierman: Business with France has slowed down but it continues.

27/11/2025 14:48 Economy Brett Kline, Paris
ICL CEO: 400 million people owe their food to our products

Elad Aharonson spoke to the "Globes" Israel Business Conference about ICL's advanced fertilizer technologies, and its Zionist values.

27/11/2025 11:31 Chemicals & plastics Oren Dori
Entree Capital raises $300m in two new funds

The firm names artificial intelligence, deep-tech and quantum computing, and crypto among the areas in which it will seek to invest.

27/11/2025 10:10 Start ups Assaf Gilead

26 November 2025

Spinal navigation co PathKeeper completes funding round

PathKeeper Surgical's spinal surgery device is radiation free and accurate to within less than a millimeter.

26/11/2025 18:03 Healthcare Gali Weinreb
Smotrich publishes order doubling personal imports tax exemption

Knesset Finance Committee chairperson Hanoch Milwidsky: This is a classic example of destructive election economics.

26/11/2025 15:10 Economy Oren Dori
Hercules Capital names Ella-Tamar Adhanan head of Israel activity

Adhanan is due to open an Israel office for the venture lending firm next year.

26/11/2025 14:19 Financial services Assaf Gilead
Turbine shortage delays power plant construction

Exceptionally high global demand for gas turbines will inflate the cost of the OPC Hadera and Reindeer power plants and put back competition.

26/11/2025 12:36 Energy Idan Eretz
Phoenix upgrades targets

The insurance and financial group's profit for the first nine months of 2025 was 40% higher than in the corresponding period.

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