Business

Huge exit: The Israeli company sold for $6.3b.

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint will acquire Israeli information security firm Varonis Systems in a massive deal.

"Our mission is to secure artificial intelligence and the data that feeds it." Yaki Faitelson
(L-r) Michigan Israel Business Accelerator CEO Mark Davidoff, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest Elad Strohmayer, MIBA Board Chair Howard Handler, and Chaim Martin, Israel's Minister of Economic Affairs to the United States, pose at the first U.S.-Israel Innovation Exchange Summit in Detroit, M

US, Israeli business groups unite to strengthen economic ties amid growing anti-Israel backlash

Assaf Rappaport, A Rendezvous with Roni Kuban, KAN 11.

Assaf Rappaport and Wiz founders near deal for McDonald's Israel franchise

Welcoming new olim to Israel at Ben-Gurion Airport, September 14, 2026.

Investing in Israel's immigrants: New VC firm offers olim up to $500k. in funding for startups


Fewer likes, more expertise: LinkedIn’s new role in the future of work - opinion

As AI, layoffs, and growing competition reshape the professional world, LinkedIn is becoming less about visibility and more about credibility, expertise, and trust.

 LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, California.

No shopping on Shabbat? The blow landing on the Big Fashion Glilot complex

The Director General of the Ministry of Interior sent an unprecedented letter to the municipality, attacking the non-enforcement of the law on Shabbat. Will the giant complex be closed?

Crowds at Big Fashion in Glilot during the complex's first weekend

From two construction families in Even Yehuda to leading real estate group: Shponder & Fadlon story

From family firms of Herzl Fadlon and Yehoshua Shponder in the 1970s to a Israel real estate group focused on development execution and urban renewal across Israel with large-scale portfolio.

Shponder & Fadlon Project.

The businesses that will make a killing in the World Cup, and those that will take a hit

The late broadcasting hours of the current tournament are going to keep you at home, punish the bars, and inflate the pockets of one specific industry.

The World Cup has far-reaching effects on the national mood

Record sale for a women's basketball team: Connecticut Sun sold for $300 million

Huge deal in the WNBA: The Fertitta family, owners of the Houston Rockets, purchased the team for the highest amount in league history.

The WNBA team Connecticut Sun

Intel, Startup Nation Central name three Israeli start-ups as Edge AI Tech Challenge winners

Taking first place was Secondly, a startup founded by serial entrepreneur Adam Cohen Hillel, which is developing an AI assistant designed to maintain long-term memory of a user's preferences.

The winners of Startup Nation Central and Intel's Edge AI Tech Challenge pose for a picture.

Former Austrian chancellor Kurz's Dream hits $3b. valuation in AI funding round

Dream raised $260 million in a new funding round, bringing its valuation to $3 billion and total capital raised to $412 million as governments race to control their own AI systems.

Dream co-founders Shalev Hulio and Sebastian Kurz

Why do businesspeople buy sports teams?

From sophisticated tax benefits, through a shortcut to regulators, to critical real estate engines – the hidden premiums of the football and basketball world.

Kenneth Walker from the Seattle Seahawks

SailPoint acquires Israeli startup Entro for approximately $200 million

The Tel Aviv–based company, a leader in non-human identity (NHI) security, will assist the American giant in sealing security breaches in the era of autonomous agents.

Itzik Alvas, co-founder and CEO, and Adam Shriki, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Entro Security

GMT is acquired by Western Union for NIS 200 million

The Ramat Hachayal–based fintech company, which employs approximately 100 workers, is being acquired by Western Union in a transaction valued at approximately NIS 200 million.

Eran Sarouk, CEO of GMT