Capital Market

Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron and Bank Supervisor Yair Avidan granted a bank license and permits to control the bank - which will be called Ash Israel Bank. Bank entrepreneurs Yuval Aloni, Nir Tsuk, Alex Liberant and Alon Shay received the permit. Prof. Shmuel Hauser, former head of the Israel Securities Authority, will serve as chairman of the bank. This is the second license given to a new bank in the system within a period of three years. The receipt of the control permits and the conditional bank license will allow the entrepreneurs to move forward and complete the mechanical,...

The investors are disappearing, the apartment buyers are sitting on the fence, the supply of subsidized apartments has decreased, and on the streets you can already feel the drop in prices. This is according to the review of the real estate market in November, published by the chief economist at the Ministry of Finance. The declines in apartment sales and the signs of the approaching crisis in the industry - which began already in the middle of last year - have so far not affected the price indices of the apartments which continued to rise, at least until last September. The main factor...

For the first time since 1987, the government ended a calendar year with a budget surplus, not a deficit. 2022 ended with a surplus of 0.6% of GDP, following the sharp increase in tax revenues - compared to a deficit of 4.4% the previous year

The Accountant General at the Ministry of Finance, CPA Yali Rotenberg, published the first estimate of the debt-to-GDP ratio for 2022, according to which the public debt-to-GDP ratio for last year decreased by 7.1% and amounted to only 60.9% compared to 68% in 2021. Meaning: this is still At a slightly higher rate than it was before the coronavirus in 2019, but still at the largest-ever decrease in state debt in one year

"The ongoing uncertainty surrounding the legal reform constitutes a significant negative risk to Israel's economy." This is what the report of the International Monetary Fund claims. According to the organization's economists, in the case of a pessimistic scenario surrounding the reform, growth per capita is expected to be reduced to only 1.5%-1.6% in the next two years (2023-2024), which reflects negative economic growth per capita (the natural increase in Israel stands at 2%). According to the report, "Protests and social conflicts have accompanied the economic uncertainty, which, if it...

The Faculty of Medicine in Tel Aviv has decided that the number of students there is going to increase significantly, and it is expected to undergo a major change in the curriculum and adapt it to the current era. In a letter sent this week by the management of the faculty to all its members, it announced the expected revolution in medical studies in Tel Aviv: 320 medical students per year within three years - instead of the 225 who started the first year this year - and a change in the entire curriculum. Part of the increase was made possible thanks to the cancellation of the American...

The Central Beverage Company (Coca Cola Israel) will pay an administrative fine of NIS 36.4 million after abusing its monopolistic position in the beverage market. This is according to the final calculation of the fine approved by the head of the competition court, Judge Tamar Bezek-Rappaport. The original fine imposed in 2019 was NIS 39 million. The ruling indicates that the Competition Tribunal accepted the commissioner's position regarding six law-breaking practices, which constitute an abuse of monopolistic power, which the company has taken over the years

In March Israel moved for the first time from June to an annual deficit in the state budget that increased in April, since then the trend has been a consistent increase in the deficit. In June, the rate of the deficit in relation to GDP in the last 12 months was already 0.9%, which is NIS 15.4 billion. In June, a deficit of NIS 6.2 billion was recorded compared to a deficit of NIS 1.5 billion in May last year. This is according to the data of the Accountant General at the Treasury published today (Sunday). Since the beginning of the year, there is still a surplus of NIS 6.2 billion, which...

No less than 52% of the companies in the high-tech service industries reported in the first half of 2023 a reduction in personnel compared to the first half of 2022. This is according to the data of the Central Bureau of Statistics published on Monday. The company managers were also asked about the main cause of the economic damage to their company in the last six months. According to the CBS, the most significant cause of the damage was a decrease in demand for their company's product (about 36% of the companies defined it as such), followed by difficulties in raising venture capital...

In a dramatic move, the influential Business Forum, consisting of 76 senior businessmen, has announced its intention to shut down the Israeli economy in protest against the continuation of controversial coup d'état legislation. The decision, made during a meeting of top economic officials, reflects deep concerns regarding the potential ramifications of the legislation