Latest Israel Headlines
All the headlines from our Israel Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Abu Dhabi’s ADQ Leads Consortium to Buy Stake in Israel’s Phoenix Group
Dec 14 2022 // A consortium led by Abu Dhabi state holding firm ADQ are in advanced negotiations to acquire a controlling stake in Israeli financial firm Phoenix Group in a deal that values the company at around 9.2 billion shekels...
Senior EU Officials Targeted With Israeli Spyware: Sources
Apr 11 2022 // Senior officials at the European Commission were targeted last year with spy software designed by an Israeli surveillance firm, according to two EU officials and documentation reviewed by Reuters. Among them was Didier...
Israeli Ice Cream Maker Sues Ben & Jerry’s for Damages Over Boycott
Mar 4 2022 // Ben & Jerry’s was sued on Thursday by its longtime Israeli ice cream manufacturer, which said the company illegally severed their 34-year relationship after halting sales in Israeli-occupied Palestinian...
Israeli Cyber-Security Startup Pentera Raises $150M in Funding, Weighs IPO
Jan 11 2022 // Israeli cyber-security firm Pentera has raised $150 million in its latest funding round, taking the company’s value to $1 billion, the company told Reuters, adding it was eyeing an initial public offering in the...
Bird Flu Kills Thousands of Migratory Cranes in Israel; No Human Transmission Reported
Dec 28 2021 // An outbreak of avian flu has killed more than 5,000 migratory cranes in Israel, prompting authorities to declare a popular nature reserve off-limits to visitors and warn of a possible egg shortage as poultry birds are...
Willis Towers Watson to Acquire Israeli Broker Leaderim
Nov 17 2021 // Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Leaderim, an insurance broking and risk consultancy business in Israel. Financial terms of the deal were not...
U.S. Court Rejects Israeli Firm’s Immunity From Facebook Suit Over Malware
Nov 9 2021 // A U.S. appeals court said Facebook can pursue a lawsuit accusing Israel’s NSO Group of exploiting a bug in its WhatsApp messaging app to install malware allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including...
Israeli Fintech Pagaya Agrees to Go Public via $8.5B SPAC Deal
Sep 15 2021 // Israeli fintech Pagaya on Wednesday agreed to go public through a merger with special-purpose acquisition company EJF Acquisition Corp in a deal with an enterprise value of $8.5 billion. The deal will include a $200...
Iran Blames Israel for Explosion that Damaged Container Ship in Mediterranean
Mar 15 2021 // Iran said Israel was likely behind an explosion that damaged an Iranian container ship in the Mediterranean last week, as the longtime foes trade accusations of attacks at sea. “The geographical location of the...
Israeli Insurtech Earnix Reaches $1 Billion Valuation After Financing Round
Feb 22 2021 // Israeli startup Earnix Ltd., which uses advanced analytics to help insurers and banks offer personalized financial products, reached a $1 billion valuation in a financing round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors...
EasySend Raises $16M to Enable Insurance Companies and Financial Institutions to Build a No-Code Digital Future
Sep 24 2020 // The investment will empower insurance companies, banks, and other financial institutions to build and optimize digital journeys with an AI-powered no-code platform Tel Aviv, Israel – September 24, 2020 – EasySend, the...
United Arab Emirates Ends Boycott, Opening Commerce With Israel
Aug 31 2020 // DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —The ruler of the United Arab Emirates issued a decree Saturday formally ending the country’s boycott of Israel amid a U.S.-brokered deal to normalize relations between the two...
Israel Thwarts Major Cyber Attack Against Its Water Systems
May 29 2020 // Israel’s national cyber chief Thursday officially acknowledged the country had thwarted a major cyber attack last month against its water systems, an assault widely attributed to arch-enemy Iran, calling it a...
Microsoft Puts Israeli Facial Recognition Startup Under Ethics Microscope
Nov 18 2019 // Microsoft Corp. has hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the use of facial recognition technology developed by an Israeli startup it funded complies with its ethics principles, the company...
Female Entrepreneur Forging Path in Insurtech Space with AI-Powered Chatbot ‘LeO’
Oct 21 2019 // Like many people, entrepreneur and former Israeli tech journalist turned insurtech founder Liri Halperin never expected she would end up in the insurance business. But an insurance buying experience almost four years ago...
Court Upholds Facebook Immunity in Case Brought by Terrorist Attack Victims
Aug 1 2019 // Facebook Inc. on Wednesday defeated an appeal by American victims of Hamas attacks in Israel, who sought to hold the company liable for providing the group a social media platform to further its terroristic goals. The 2nd...
Moody’s, Israel’s Team8 to Offer Business Cyber Risk Benchmark for M&As, Insurance
Jun 27 2019 // Ratings agency Moody’s Corp. and Israeli cyber group Team8 launched on Thursday a joint venture to assess how vulnerable businesses are to cyber attacks and create what they hope will become a global benchmark. Cyber...
Telecoms Have Lost Vast Data to Chinese Hackers Over 7 Years, Security Firm Says
Jun 26 2019 // Hackers broke into the systems of more than a dozen global telecom firms and stole huge amounts of data in a seven-year spying campaign, researchers from a cyber security company said, identifying links to previous Chinese...
Intel’s Mobileye Aims to Launch Trial of Self-Driving Cabs on Israeli Roads in 2020
Jun 21 2019 // Intel Corp.’s Mobileye NV unit expects to launch a trial of robo-cabs next year in Israel, the company told Bloomberg News on Sunday [June 16]. Intel Chief Executive Officer Bob Swan rode a Mobileye autonomous car...
Texas Tops the Nation in Traffic Deaths; Filed Bills Aim to Stem the Tide
Apr 29 2019 // At least one person has died on Texas roads every day since Nov. 7, 2000. Despite efforts to End the Streak, as the Texas Department of Transportation puts it, the state still leads the nation in traffic deaths. Fatalities...
