Articles by February, 2026

Three residents of the Arab city of Tira, all in their 20s, were shot and killed late Tuesday night while traveling in their car near Moshav Sde Warburg in the Sharon region, police said. According to initial findings, the shooting was linked to an ongoing dispute, and a manhunt for the suspects is underway

Bezalel Zini, the brother of Shin Bet Director David Zini, is suspected of smuggling cigarettes into the Gaza Strip, a case that was cleared for publication on Tuesday. A prosecutor’s statement submitted against Zini and other suspects includes, controversially, a clause relating to aiding the enemy in time of war — though legal sources stress it is not yet certain this charge will be included in the final indictment

Three days after the outbreak of the war in Gaza, Israel’s Competition Authority approached El Al with a cautionary message: avoid exploiting consumers during a national emergency. Three months later, the regulator concluded that the warning had gone unheeded

Nebius, which spun off from Russian internet giant Yandex in 2024 and is traded on Nasdaq with a market capitalization of approximately $24 billion, has recently expanded its activity in Israel, including establishing the Israel Innovation Authority’s AI supercomputer infrastructure

A 24-year-old woman was shot Thursday evening in the city of Taibeh and moderately injured, in an incident that comes amid an unusually deadly wave of violence across Arab communities

Housing prices in Israel have returned to an upward trajectory after eight consecutive months of mostly moderate declines, according to data published Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics

yThe sale of Israeli shipping company ZIM Integrated Shipping Services was formally signed today in Tel Aviv in a deal valued at $4.2 billion. A delegation of senior executives from Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd, led by CEO Rolf Habben Jansen, arrived in Israel to finalize the agreemen

Teva Pharmaceuticals, headquartered in Israel, has announced significant layoffs affecting multiple departments at its main office, alongside a transfer of jobs abroad. The company, which employed 37,851 individuals globally at the close of 2023, with 3,385 based in Israel, cited operational adjustments as part of its new strategy called "Pivot to Growth

The Peace Council’s top representative, Nickolay Mladenov, announced Thursday that recruitment has begun for a new Palestinian police force to operate inside Gaza, in what he described as a key step toward the Strip’s demilitarization

Israel is not expected to participate in the international financial literacy assessment scheduled for 2029 as part of the OECD’s PISA examinations — a departure from the country’s consistent participation in OECD testing over the past 25 years