Israel business

Israelis spent NIS 51.6 billion on debit and credit cards in October, up 12.5% year-on-year

Online transactions accounted for approximately NIS 29.5 b. in spending, up 15.8% from October last year.

Credit card payment.
Intel research and development office in Matam business park in Haifa.

Maala: The ESG engine quietly rewiring Israeli corporate culture

New compensation track launched for protection racket victims.

Up to NIS 2 million: New compensation track launched for protection racket victims

Israelis have become exceptionally good at building when the plan keeps changing.

Built for uncertainty - opinion


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

Israel’s UN Climate Tech Delegation for COP27 announced

These are the 10 companies that will make up the delegation representing Israel's climate tech industry on the world stage.

Israel Start up

Joonko raises $25m., enabling huge US companies to hire diversely

The company was founded in order to help companies hire more underrepresented individuals. Here's what it has planned.

 The team at Joonko.

Bank Leumi CEO: It's difficult to recruit talent for banking system

The CEO of Bank Leumi spoke about the difficulty in recruiting talent for the banking system, the severe recession in Europe and Israel's economic status.

Israelis walk past a branch of Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv

Upstep has record August, sells 300% more insoles than 2021

After many months of optimization work, the company created a solid foundation for a significant increase in sales, while improving all the data at the same time.

 Upstep's products.

Meet the company specializing in testing standards that is coming to Israel

TÜV SÜD’s entry into Israel will help create collaborations between businesses and labs in Israel and internationally, will increase professional standards and introduce technological innovations.

 A computer keyboard lit by a displayed cyber code is seen in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017.