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Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a Finance Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 26, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 3, 2026, 9:57 pm
Smotrich instructs ministry to build task force to help tech firms with shekel surge
Amid wave of mass layoffs, Finance Ministry officials meet with tech reps, insist that government won’t directly intervene to stabilize currency and instead look to limit damage
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Indian army display drones during an operational drill in Pathankot, India, February 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
June 2, 2026, 6:04 pm
Motorola Solutions buys Israeli drone defense startup D-Fend for $1.5 billion
Raanana-based firm uses radio waves to commandeer UAVs instead of jamming or intercepting them; system deployed in over 30 countries; described as largest-ever Israeli defense tech exit
By Reuters and ToI Staff
People lining up in Otello in Rehovot on Shabbat in protest of the fine the business received for operating on Shabbat, on May 16, 2026. (Ynet/Screenshot)
May 17, 2026, 12:02 pm
Hundreds show up to support Rehovot businesses fined for opening on Shabbat
Ice cream parlor Otello and cafe Nook are cited after operating on Saturdays for over a year, leading residents to complain about uneven enforcement of Shabbat policy
By ToI Staff
Yael Ben Cnaan helps a customer with a bouquet on the morning before Passover at her store Bishvil Flowers in Tel Aviv, April 1, 2026. (Theia Chatelle via JTA)
April 2, 2026, 1:24 pm
Israelis spend Passover under shadow of Iran war, as businesses cling to survival
Yael Ben Cnaan struggles to keep Tel Aviv flower store afloat during what is meant to be peak period; Finance Ministry says economy losing at least 4.3 billion shekels per week
By Theia Chatelle
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By Tamar Vogel
Farmer Dudu Argaman (right) and his wife Bat-sheva stand in front of their house and orchard of mango trees in Moshav Almagor in northern Israel. (Courtesy)
July 4, 2025, 11:17 am
Small businesses struggle to stay afloat as damages from two wars deepen
Social lender is helping businesses on the brink of financial collapse receive loans and stay above water after 20 months of war, while government compensation is slow and insufficient
By Sharon Wrobel
A view of the Azrieli towers and the surrounding buildings in central Tel Aviv. (Courtesy of Avison Young)
August 24, 2022, 6:25 pm
With dozens of malls and offices, profits up 110% for Israel’s biggest property firm
Shopping complexes, office buildings are near full capacity, as Azrieli Group looks to extend portfolio
By Danielle Nagler
Customers at restaurants at the Sarona market in Tel Aviv on April 21, 2021. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 9, 2021, 6:48 pm
Fearing fresh lockdown, business owners demand lawmakers cancel prior fines
Restaurateurs tell Knesset they cannot pay the financial penalties they owe, as labor shortages continue and new restrictions loom
By Luke Tress
The unrecognized Bedouin villages around the Ramat Hovav industrial area in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds and an Israel Electric Company power plant, December 28, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90/File)
July 28, 2021, 10:35 pm
Environment minister slams plan to weaken pollution regulations to help business
Tamar Zandberg says proposal in Economic Arrangements Bill would leave ministry with ‘responsibility but no authority,’ posing risk to public health, environment
By Sue Surkes
Israelis take part in a protest march to demand immediate action on climate change, Tel Aviv, March 29, 2019. The sign reads: 'What green do you see?' (Adam Shuldman/Flash90)
June 2, 2021, 5:27 am
Israeli businesses told to think sustainability or sink financially
First environment conference to be initiated by business community hears that public pressure, international regulations and likelihood of Israel climate law all point green
By Sue Surkes
Police officers wrestle a shop owner in Holon to the ground to prevent him from stabbing himself, after he was fined for putting his merchandise on the sidewalk, February 24, 2021. (Screen capture: Twitter)
February 24, 2021, 7:25 pm
Holon shop owner stabs himself in the head after being fined by city
Municipality says man was penalized for placing merchandise on the sidewalk, has previously been punished for same offense and attempted to harm himself
By ToI Staff
View of the closed Hadar shopping mall in Jerusalem on October 12, 2020 (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
October 28, 2020, 6:43 am
Tax Authority to demand return of hundreds of millions in coronavirus stipends
Hundreds of small companies and thousands of independent workers reportedly received grants totalling $300 million they had not qualified for; will now be forced to give money back
By ToI Staff
Ian Grant
October 12, 2020, 12:42 pm
Ian Grant
How is your company adapting to the ‘new normal’?
There is no going back to the ‘old normal’; we have to a ‘new normal’, whatever that is, and digital transformation will give firms the tools to allow them to continue and succeed
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