Israel business

Rethinking risk: Why Israel is no longer the outlier - opinion

The world no longer behaves as we once knew. Europe is now under quiet but noticeable pressure and the Middle East is stable but can face sudden disruptions

Investors are beginning to ask where systems continue to function under stress.
Ashdod Port

Record profits for Ashdod Port Company in 2025

Finance Committee chair MK Hanoch Milwidsky leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, during the war with Iran and Hezbollah, March 15, 2026.

Knesset advances compensation for businesses impacted by war, benefits for reservists

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at cabinet meeting to vote on 2026 budget, December 5, 2025.

Knesset about to pass budget already seen as irrelevant


Israel targets 'smart' cities with new 5G mobile auction

Fifth-generation technology is 10 times faster than widespread 4G and rolling it out would improve Internet access in city centers.

A Samsung employee poses with the new Samsung Galaxy S10 5G smartphone at a press event in London, Britain February 20, 2019.

Your Taxes: Employee responsibility, commercial secrets - opinion

Here is a round-up of some interesting happenings on the tax scene.

Calculating taxes

What happened to all of Elite's ‘red cow’ chocolate?

BUSINESS AFAIRS: Strauss’s Elite brand chocolate products have still not fully made their way back onto shelves. What are they planning, and what will they need to do to win back consumers?

 THE STRAUSS Elite candy factory in Nazareth in April, after salmonella was found in a few of its products.

Connect/Israel brings together businessmen from Israel, US and Gulf

In Israel, the group met entrepreneurs such as Dov Moran and Sylvan Adams.

 Connect Israel took young businessmen from Israel, the US and the Gulf on a trip through the Middle East.

Wolt to expand to 15 new communities near Rishon, Rehovot

Wolt was established in 2014 in Helsinki, Finland, as a convenient, fast and serviceable food delivery platform. It began operating in Israel in 2018. 

 A courier working with Wolt, a meal delivery app service, rides a scooter as he delivers an order from a restaurant, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Tel Aviv, Israel July 9, 2020.

Israeli stocks teeter on Wall Street brink

BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The sharp decline in the US stock exchange seems to be hitting Israeli tech companies harder than anticipated.

 TRADERS WORK on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week.

SparkIL provides Israel's small business owners a much-needed boost

SparkIL, established in partnership by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ogen Group, is the first peer-to-peer lending platform for supporting Israeli small businesses.

 David Elimelech and his girlfriend, Jennifer, display their goods.

TaTiO raises $5.3m. for hiring platform focusing on skills, not résumés

The company uses artificial intelligence to assess job seekers’ skill sets, recommending them to employers without the need for old-fashioned resumes.


Israel’s largest law firm reflects on 50 years of change

“I spoke Hebrew at home, but did not have great Hebrew, and then he made me an offer. The magic word was it was in dollars. I focused on ‘dollars’ and didn’t hear the number,” said a partner.

 View of office and apartment highrise buildings in central Tel Aviv, on November 27, 2017

This AI platform aims to help corporations fix their sustainability issues

Continue AI has announced a $5.7M funding round that it will use to further develop its AI platform.

Artificial intelligence