Business

The southern launchpad: How Sapir College is turning academic talent into market leaders- opinion

By aligning academic research with industrial needs, local innovators are building a self-sustaining economic engine in the Negev.

Lying just south of the major western Negev border city of Sderot, Sapir – with more than 7,000 students – is Israel’s largest public college.
Participants on a Birthright Israel program.

Birthright Israel to hold first Taglit Global Business Summit in Tel Aviv

44 months in prison and a fine for company owner convicted of deducting fictitious invoices worth NIS 5.75 million.

Massive NIS 5.75m. fraud: Attempted to shift blame and sentenced to prison

Eylon Zefania, Yoni Cohen, Aviv Yovel, and Michal Elyasaf, co-founders of Vizby.

Without seed capital: Four young Israeli entrepreneurs sell AI startup for millions of shekels


Air Haifa announces Cal's FlyAll as first credit card partner for reward flight redemptions

FlyAll is the only card in Israel that lets customers redeem accumulated funds for flights on all four Israeli airlines and various international carriers.

An Air Haifa ATR-72-600 aircraft.

The week behind a bug fix could become AI training data

Release notes preserve the answer. Connected engineering records can explain the investigation that made it possible.

The investigation can outlast the release note.

California's proposed wealth tax makes business domicile part of the exit analysis

Proposition 40 could affect billionaires with California residency ties, prompting business owners to review company domicile, personal residency and ongoing state tax obligations.

California’s proposed wealth tax is putting business domicile under scrutiny in exit planning.

Over 3,000 businesses attacked in French riots as insurance damages top $1 billion

Alongside convenience stores and small businesses, branches of fashion and lifestyle giants, including Louis Vuitton, Hermès, Dior, and Ralph Lauren, have been looted.

A destroyed car near the Marianne statue at the Place de la Republique, with a yellow vest put on it, the day after clashes during a national day of demonstrations against the cost of living and rising fuel prices, in Paris, France, October 18, 2026.

Ex-unit 8200 alumni sell Elementary Data for Some $45 million

The startup, founded in 2021 and having raised just $8.5m. until now, is joining American company Boomi. The product enables data teams to spot failures in real time and prevent business errors.

Elementary Data employees.

Huge exit: The Israeli company sold for $6.3b.

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint will acquire Israeli information security firm Varonis Systems in a massive deal.

"Our mission is to secure artificial intelligence and the data that feeds it." Yaki Faitelson

US, Israeli business groups unite to strengthen economic ties amid growing anti-Israel backlash

Regional economic development groups from across the US united at a Michigan summit to promote Israeli investment, strengthen commercial partnerships and counter growing opposition to business ties.

(L-r) Michigan Israel Business Accelerator CEO Mark Davidoff, Consul General of Israel to the Midwest Elad Strohmayer, MIBA Board Chair Howard Handler, and Chaim Martin, Israel's Minister of Economic Affairs to the United States, pose at the first U.S.-Israel Innovation Exchange Summit in Detroit, M

Assaf Rappaport and Wiz founders near deal for McDonald's Israel franchise

From a tech empire and media holdings straight to Israel's most successful fast-food chain: Cyber company Wiz's founders, led by Assaf Rappaport, are in advanced stages to acquire the franchise.

Assaf Rappaport, A Rendezvous with Roni Kuban, KAN 11.

Investing in Israel's immigrants: New VC firm offers olim up to $500k. in funding for startups

Aliyah Ventures emerged from stealth with the objective of funding projects by new immigrants in Israel, targeting a portfolio of 30-40 companies.

Welcoming new olim to Israel at Ben-Gurion Airport, September 14, 2026.

Israel-US commercial relations strengthen after 80 organizations sign MoU to improve bilateral ties

The new initiative followed a summit organized by the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator (MIBA) and aims to improve economic and commercial cooperation between Israel and the US.

Pictures from the MIBA event announcing the US-Israel Innovation Exchange (USIIE).