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]Israeli high-tech ended the third quarter of 2025 with a mixed picture: sharp declines in fundraising and investor activity on the one hand, and record-breaking levels of mergers and acquisitions on the other. According to Startup Nation Central’s (SNC) quarterly report, the year is shaping up to be one of the most significant in the history of the industry — but also one of the most volatile

The S&P credit rating company announced that it has upgraded Israel's credit rating from A + to AA -, the highest rating Israel has ever won. Raising the rating is a very significant achievement for the Israeli economy and expresses confidence in the ability of the economy to grow and the government's ability to maintain a responsible fiscal policy. On the practical level, it will allow the government to raise funds under better conditions

The Supervisor of Banks demanded that Bank Hapoalim compensate customers who suferred by a malfunction that was found in the Bank's ATMs. In December 2018, the media reported a nationwide malfunction in Bank Hapoalim's automated teller machine, in which it was claimed that customers who tried to withdraw cash were charged for the withdrawal attempt and the withdrawal fee, despite the failure of the device and the customers did not actually receive the money. As a result of this information, the Banking Supervision Department began an examination of the Bank's handling of the said...

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Central Bureau of Statistics published data on the population of Israel for the past year. The data indicate that last year, which ended at the end of the Jewish callender. 8,907,000 live in Israel, of which 74.4% are Jews, 20.9% are Arab, and 4.9% are other minorities

Bank of Israel Governor Karnit Flug visited Baka al-Garbiya and launched the Bank of Israel's new website in Arabic. The site in Arabic is parallel to the site in Hebrew, and contains a lot of information about the Israeli economy, activity and policy of the Bank, statistical information, reviews and economic analysis, information regarding currencies and bills in Israel and more.

The house price index for August-September rose by 0.1% compared with the July-August index, followed by housing prices in the last 12 months, a decrease of 1.9%. New home prices fell by 0.6 percent in August-September and the rate of government-sponsored transactions (occupant price and target price) was 34.1 percent

The economic and bureaucratic situation of the State of Israel is not encouraging: The 2018 World Economic Forum's (WEF) 2018 International Competitiveness Index reveals that Israel has fallen to 20th place in the International Competition Index from 16th place in the past year. This is a new competitive index - GCI 4.0, which includes weights and other parameters that were not taken into account in past indices. The top five places in the new competitiveness index were the United States, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and Japan respectively, while the last and least respected (140) in the...