Israel business

From positive content to real action: Inside the United for Good Movement

A global initiative aimed at healing discourse, strengthening resilience, and reconnecting people.

UG FOUNDER Oren Revach.
 Last year's winner Alisa Givertz, founder and CEO of Liquid360 together with judges Dr. Esther Luzzatto, CEO of The Luzzatto Group, Tamar Luzzatto, Head of Business Development, Marketing and Innovation of The Luzzatto Group and Dr. Gili Bittan-Banin Head of Innovation at Bazan Group

2026 Next-Gen Women Entrepreneurship Award: Three minutes, one stage, real leverage

In January, Israel’s Ministry of Defense signed a multi-year contract with Semiconductor Devices valued at approximately $115 million (NIS 380 million).

Israeli chip equipment stocks outperform on Wall Street

People looking for work as unemployment rises

Israel job vacancies hit highest rate since December of 2022, CBS says


Nvidia in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI startup AI21 Labs for up to $3 billion

A 2023 funding round valued AI21 at $1.4 billion. Nvidia and Alphabet's Google participated in that funding.

NVIDIA

Wine Talk: From winemakers to farmers

For the Flam boys, the deep cellars, aromas of the winery, and dark corners were a playground that beckoned them into a world of wine.

Flam's vineyard snakes through the valley.

Israeli AI startup Anchor Browser raises $6M in seed round

Anchor Browser has successfully developed a breakthrough infrastructure enabling reliable, secure and stable Agentic AI web operations for browser environments

Anchor founders

Regulator tells Horesh-Harel not to help choose ICC-CAL CEO

Union Investments and Harel are due to buy the ICC-CAL stake at a company valuation of NIS 3.75-4 billion, depending on the credit card company's performance

Using a credit card.

HP Israel to lay off up to 90 employees as part of global cost-cutting plan

The reorganization plan at HP was first presented in November 2022, at the height of the crisis in the global tech industry due to rising interest rates.

HP Indigo building, Ness Ziona, Israel.

Bank of Israel chief warns of deep war impact even as economy shows resilience

The governor of the Bank of Israel talks about how even the optimistic scenario of the end of the war does not guarantee a soft landing.

 BANK OF Israel Governor Amir Yaron speaks at a news conference in Jerusalem last month. The regulatory shaming announced by the central bank this week is a step in the right direction, the writer maintains.

Amid war and investor pullback, US fund manager Ezra Gardner keeps faith in Israeli tech

Ezra Gardner, who co-founded the most active foreign VC fund in Israel, warns that overseas investors are shunning the country, but still says he’s “never been more optimistic” about it.

Ezra Gardner

Shekel surges as Trump announces Israel-Gaza ceasefire

The shekel-US dollar exchange rate was set at NIS 3.2420/$ and the shekel-euro rate set at NIS 3.7635/€.

 Gold Is Now Outperforming Stocks and Bonds

JVP raises $290M from TPG to propel insurtech unicorn Earnix’s AI revolution

Deal delivered an 8.7x return to early investors

Earnix

Two private power providers sign major supply deals

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli households receive electricity at a discount from private suppliers

 Dalia Energy