Banking & Finance

Your Taxes: Recovering VAT on employee fringe benefits

Inputs for employees are defined as assets or services, such as meals, housing, gifts, or entertainment intended for the enjoyment, use, welfare, or benefit of employees or their family.

 An illustration showing VAT in 2025.

Your Investments: Reflecting on the past for a better future

 SATCHEL PAIGE warms up before a game in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx in 1952.

Your Investments: Don’t let summer heat burn your finances

 Mother and toddler sitting under the tree during summer vacation. (Illustrative).

Your Taxes: Tough new fiscal residency proposals

 Ben Gurion Airport

Israeli tech sector raises $2.72 billion in Q2 2025, led by cyber and AI

The Israeli Tech Review Q2/2025 provides insights into current trends, including an analysis of investments, M&A, and public markets

 Maya Eisen-Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech

Bank Hapoalim donates NIS 1.3 million to hospitals hit in Operation Rising Lion

The donation, made through the bank’s Social Banking Center, will help Soroka complete urgent repairs and restore full functionality.

 Smoke rises from Soroka Medical Center, the city's general hospital, following a missile strike from Iran on Israel, in Beersheba, Israel June 19, 2025

The Moment to Act is Now: The Damage is Severe, But Our Spirits Are Strong and Resilient

Israel’s Operation Rising Lion has sent a powerful message: Israel is strong and will not wait to be attacked. But this strength comes at a steep cost.

 This is the reality for families across Israel

Your Taxes: Negotiating a wartime M&A deal

In Israel, there is the added complication of the Israel-Hamas War. Is it business as usual in Israel? What do potential sellers and buyers need to consider?

 Israeli national flags flutter in front of an office tower at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020.

Hamilton Lane Israel head at firm’s 2025 investor event

“Since the war, Hamilton Lane has invested close to $250 million in Israel”.

 Juan Delgado, Co-CEO; Limor Beker, Head of Israel; Yuval Raphael, Israel’s 2025 Eurovision rep.; Andrea Kramer COO; Mario Giannini, Executive Co-Chairman

Co-CEO of Hamilton Lane: ‘It’s money time for private markets’

Juan Delgado says private market investing firms are positioned for even greater success – and Israel is one of the company’s key markets

 JUAN DELGADO, co-CEO, Hamilton Lane: Data-centric approach, market-leading database.

Blackstone president Jonathan Gray donates $125 million to Tel Aviv University

This donation, the largest in the history of the university, will fund the development of new facilities and scholarships for the School of Health and Medical Sciences.

 Jonathan Gray and his wife Mindy have made the largest donation in Tel Aviv University's history.

Why Israel can’t escape impact of tariffs

While stock indices in the US and Europe fell by about 10% in two days, the Tel Aviv 35 Index fell by just under 4% yesterday and by 0.62% on Thursday.

 US President Donald Trump meets Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington DC, April 7, 2025

Impact investments: How young investors are answering the call of the Jewish state

Young leaders are redefining investing in Israel—turning financial support into personal commitment, driving impact, and shaping the future of Israel Bonds.

 ISRAEL BONDS New Leadership New York City Co-Chairs Perri Korine and Erez Kahan.

Commercial banks to offer benefits to the tune of NIS 3b. following central bank plan

The Bank Of Israel announced a general set of discounts that the commercial banks will provide, including offering interest rates and benefits for money sitting in checking accounts.

 Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron seen at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York, June 3, 2024