Israel business

Built for uncertainty - opinion

What Israeli entrepreneurs can teach global business about building when the plan keeps changing

Israelis have become exceptionally good at building when the plan keeps changing.
AI is reshaping the digital world, raising questions about who owns and controls our personal data.

Israeli AI security company Alice raises $140m. in latest financing round

Jan-Jaap Jager, CEO of Acronis.

Acronis pushes AI beyond recommendations with new autonomous IT platform

ATTACHING TIRES to the chassis of an F-150 pickup truck at Dearborn Truck Plant in Dearborn, Michigan, in 2024.

Michigan is not turning away from Israel – opinion


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

Thoma Bravo in talks to buy Israeli cybersecurity firm Armis at $5b. valuation

Insight Partners is in talks to sell Israeli cybersecurity firm Armis to Thoma Bravo for $5B, possibly ahead of an IPO. Insight Partners could gain up to $3B.

 Cyber attacks spiked in 2021