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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 428

Rakefet Russak-Aminoach

Team8's Fintech team: Yuval Tal, left to right, Rakefet Russak-Aminoach, Galia Beer-Gabel and Ronen Assia (Ron Kedmi)
September 15, 2020, 1:42 pm
Team8 nabs former Bank Leumi CEO Rakefet Russak-Aminoach for Fintech team
Team8 Fintech will focus on founding, investing and growing fintech companies, the company says; Team8 sets up cyber and data companies, and has a VC arm
By Shoshanna Solomon
A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 1, 2019, 1:37 pm
Bank Leumi appoints Samer Haj Yehia chairman of board
The 48-year-old, a director at Leumi since 2014, becomes first Arab chairman at an Israeli lender
By Shoshanna Solomon
Bank of Israel Professor Amir Yaron, left, seen with CEO of Leumi Bank, Rakefet Rosek-Aminach, right, at his appointment ceremony held at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, December 24, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 1, 2019, 1:28 pm
CEOs fleeing Israeli banks in quest for higher salaries, less regulation
Three leaders of the five main banking groups are stepping down, with a 2016 law capping wages in the financial sector among the reasons top talent is turning to other sectors
By Shoshanna Solomon
Rakefet Russak-Aminoach arrives at the appointment ceremony of Incoming head of Bank of Israel Professor Amir Yaron held in Jerusalem. Professor Yaron is replacing Karnit Flug. December 24, 2018 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2019, 12:48 pm
Bank Leumi CEO Russak-Aminoach to step down after seven years at helm
Russak-Aminoach has navigated the bank through job cuts, orchestrated the sale of its credit card unit and reached a $400 million settlement with US regulators
By Shoshanna Solomon
A Bank Leumi in Jerusalem, November 16, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 29, 2018, 11:01 am
Leumi sells credit card unit to Warburg Pincus in $685 million deal
Israel’s second-largest lender expects after-tax profit of $64 million from sale; Leumi had to sell unit as part of government push to increase competition in financial sector
By Shoshanna Solomon
A man removes cash from a Bank Leumi ATM machine in the Meah Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 3, 2016, 11:55 pm
Regulator seeks to curtail bankers’ ‘extravagant’ salaries
Bank Leumi boss made over $2 million in 2015, compared to average Israeli wage of $30,000
By ToI Staff
Nochi Dankner (Photo credit: Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
April 26, 2013, 9:51 pm
Elsztain agrees to invest $75 million in Dankner firms
After Bank Leumi abandons deal with Israeli tycoon, Argentine Jewish businessman to alleviate companies’ massive debts
By ToI Staff
Nochi Dankner (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)
April 19, 2013, 8:40 pm
Bank Leumi cancels bailout deal for billionaire after outcry
Debt-forgiveness plan for about $40.5 million owed by Nochi Dankner elicited an outpouring of anger from politicians, public
By Michal Shmulovich and ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote in the Likud primary elections together with his wife Sara, on November 24 (photo credit: Gil Yohanan/Flash90)
March 26, 2013, 1:24 am
Forbes ranks Sara Netanyahu Israel’s most powerful woman
The prime minister is ‘totally influenced’ by his wife, magazine says, placing her ahead of bank chiefs, billionaires and cultural icons
By Ron Friedman
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