Is admission of guilt required? Can a pardon can be awarded before conviction? "Globes" answers the questions.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted a request to President Isaac Herzog for a pardon "to attain unity in the people and to restore confidence in the institutions of the state."

Through a series of acquisitions in Israel, starting with Airobotics, the US company has built an autonomous systems division, and it aims to expand further.

Jozsef Varadi made the commitment in a meeting with Minister of Transport Miri Regev, although not all issues have been settled, and the Histadrut threatens disruption.

Chambre de Commerce France-Israel president Henri Cukierman: Business with France has slowed down but it continues.

Elad Aharonson spoke to the "Globes" Israel Business Conference about ICL's advanced fertilizer technologies, and its Zionist values.

The firm names artificial intelligence, deep-tech and quantum computing, and crypto among the areas in which it will seek to invest.

PathKeeper Surgical's spinal surgery device is radiation free and accurate to within less than a millimeter.

Knesset Finance Committee chairperson Hanoch Milwidsky: This is a classic example of destructive election economics.

Adhanan is due to open an Israel office for the venture lending firm next year.

Exceptionally high global demand for gas turbines will inflate the cost of the OPC Hadera and Reindeer power plants and put back competition.

The insurance and financial group's profit for the first nine months of 2025 was 40% higher than in the corresponding period.

The board has apparently decided not to proceed with a buyout offer from its CEO Eli Glickman and Rami Ungar.

The airline has found that flights between Israel and Europe will not be sufficient to justify the move.

The proposal goes against the Ministry of Finance's own position, and against the global trend of abolishing such exemptions.

Talking to "Globes", Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron cooled hopes of a rapid fall in interest rates, and expressed strong reservations about a special tax on the banks.

The value of the deal is estimated in the tens of millions of dollars. Mine seeks to focus on products for the enterprise market.

Amit Lang spoke at the Israel Business Conference about the potential of water to change the "geopolitical fabric."

The Bank of Israel Monetary Committee has decided to cut the bank's key lending rate by 0.25%, the first reduction for nearly two years.

Check Point chairman Gil Shwed told the Globes Israel Business Conference that the market is measured by raising money, rather than creating value for customers and translating it into profit.

"In my field, high tech, success translates into financial security; in the arts that doesn't always happen."

Israel's major banks reported record profits last week, but the market apparently believes the good times may not last.

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel in Jerusalem, Rehovot, Modi’in Illit, Afula, Bet Hefer, and Omer.

Itai Ben-Zeev told the Globes Israel Business Conference about the impressive performance of the stock market this year and sees more potential gains ahead.

Prof. Yitshak Kreiss, CEO of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, spoke to the Israel Conference about collaboration with Nvidia, and the remarkable survival rate in Israel hospitals.

The $70 million fund will invest at the pre-seed and seed stages, and is intended to strengthen the firm's approach of working closely with founders from the early stages.

ZIM chairperson Yair Seroussi: All the shipping companies are traded at a discount, but we are certainly aware of the issue of the company’s value.

Boston-based BGA is buying 20% of the company owned by Omer Adam, Maor Melul, and Nessim-Sariel Gaon.

Rafael has signed a contract worth millions of dollars to expand serial production of the Iron Dome air defense missile system.

The Ministry of Finance's latest forecast has an extra NIS 11.6 billion in the state coffers compared with the May forecast, which was already NIS 21.5 billion higher than in the original 2025 budget.

The Israeli defense company’s new system represents an expansion of capabilities in the field of loitering munitions.

The bank is “only” distributing 50% of its profit as a dividend because it is setting aside a high amount for credit losses.

Israel Aerospace Industries Elta unit is to relocate to a new site in southern Ashdod.

Germany is negotiating with Israel Aerospace Industries for more Arrow 3 interceptor missiles and to extend the Heron drone agreement, “Globes” has learned.

The company has developed protection engines for private users in an era of sophisticated attacks and AI.

Even if the Bank of Israel makes several interest rate cuts, economists believe it will not be enough to revive Israel’s ailing housing market.

39 Israeli companies are exhibiting this week at France’s Milipol homeland security event in Paris, “Al Jazeera” reports.

The bank will sell its 28% stake in the credit card company to George Horesh’s Union Investments and Harel.

The Herzliya-based e-commerce technology company raised $84 million, but was sold to a French company for an estimated $20-40 million.

The layoffs are estimated at 20% of the headcount at the end of 2024. The mobile games company is profitable, but struggling to grow.

Delek Group's third quarter jumped by 640% year-on-year, mainly thanks to a revaluation of its holding in North Sea oil producer Ithaca Energy.

The 275 square meter apartment is on the tenth floor of the SIX 8 tower, to be built near the Dolphinarium beach.

By owning the resident relationship, Venn helps housing operators unlock new revenue from services like insurance, credit, cellular, utilities, on-demand home services, maintenance, and more.

After the sale, the Israeli telecom company will have no controlling core.

The rapid integration of AI tools is creating a job market that is shrinking from the bottom up, research by IDC and human resources company Deel has found.

The technology company's investor conference apparently disappointed, but analysts remain positive bout the long term.

Lightspeed led the round in Amnon Shashua’s AA-I Technologies, which develops AI agents and expert language models.

The initiative, which includes Mount Sinai Hospital in the US, will use AI to crack the majority of the human genome that remains poorly understood.

The bank's annualized return on equity in the third quarter was 17.6%.

The third quarter figure does not include the major contract announced yesterday. Earnings per share handily beat analysts' estimates.

Following the easing of Bank of Israel restrictions, the bank will pay a dividend of NIS 2 billion on its NIS 2.7 billion third quarter profit.

As Mangrove Capital Partners closes its Tel Aviv office, Roy Saar and Itay Gil-Asulin have founded the 40RTY fund.

Locusview, which has developed a digital construction management platform, has only raised $75 million, according to PitchBook.

Tamir Mandowsky, the author of “Investments for the Lazy” is buying a penthouse in the HaGaDa project in the Old North, overlooking Yarkon Park.

Despite opposition from the Bank of Israel and Finance Ministry, National Economic Council chair Prof. Avi Simhon is forging ahead with the plan.

Tivon has less than 20,000 residents while estimates are that the Nvidia campus will provide nearly 10,000 jobs, directly and indirectly.

Israel's banks will now be allowed to distribute up to 75% of their quarterly earnings.

Unemployment remained low in October at just 3%, seasonally adjusted, unchanged from September, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports.

The company, founded less than two years ago, is in high demand for investment. The current round is led by US-Israeli investor Elad Gil.

Bezeq unit Pelephone has agreed to buy Hot Mobile for NIS 2.1 billion, subject to due diligence and regulatory approvals.

The company specified neither the customer nor what it will supply.

Despite concern in the west about awarding strategic infrastructure deals to Chinese companies, the private sector in Israel provides a “back door” for them.

The Japanese investment giant is no longer a party in interest in the Israeli digital insurance company.

GDP growth recovered strongly in the third quarter of 2025, after the economy contracted during the second quarter due to the war with Iran.

Israel Aerospace Industries subsidiary Blue Bird will manufacture SpyX loitering munition at the facility near Casablanca, “Defense Post” reports.

Adv. Ophir Naor, who represents the group: We shall remind anyone who has forgotten that the company has owners.

Annual inflation remains unchanged. Home prices fell for the seventh consecutive month, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports.

Haifa recorded the highest number of transactions in the third quarter, while sales in Tel Aviv jumped 38%.

Doti has developed an AI-based “enterprise brain” that centralizes data and makes it accessible to workers.

The company acts as the software foundation for practical, scalable quantum computing, spanning algorithm design, software optimization, deploying across the most advanced computing infrastructures.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new chip plant was held today in Ashkelon’s Tera Park industrial zone.

Amazon Web Services has leased land near Netanya, on which it can build a 60,000 square meter data center.

Opponents of the move claim that it severely violates privacy and limits economic freedom.

The Israeli company has developed a first-person view drone capable of attacking both horizontally and vertically.

Nvidia’s huge development center in Israel will be built in Kiryat Tivon near Haifa, if the US chip giant approves.

At the end of 2024, the company had 1,532 employees including 371 in Israel, so the latest layoffs will leave only a small number of employees here.

A recent conference discussed Amendment 13 to Israel’s Privacy Protection Law and how organizations can address emerging risks associated with the deployment of advanced AI.

78,000 Israelis left the country in 2023 compared with 56,000 in 2022 and 37,000 in 2021, the Central Bureau of Statistics reports.

Concerned about Turkey, Greece is speeding up negotiations to buy air defense systems from Israel Aerospace and Rafael for €3 billion, according to reports in the country.

The company meets rapidly growing enterprise demand for real-time protection across the entire cloud, AI systems, and production environments.

The private equity firm intends to raise the fund, which will be its largest to date, half from Israeli investors and half from overseas.

The Dutch-Israeli company will provide Meta with computer infrastructure for AI over five years.

A tower with 54,000 square meters of space is planned for the centrally located site.

There will be an increase in purchase tax on electric vehicles, and the tax break on low pollution vehicles will be reduced.

The Bezeq unit has raised its offer for Hot Mobile after reports that Gil Sharon and institutional bodies will be submitting an offer.

The company has developed a platform that allows users to create digital agents, manage them and manage the communication between them.

The company is redefining penetration testing through autonomous, agentic AI.

The shekel has gained more than 10% against the US dollar since the beginning of the year.

Ofer owns 32% of the club, control of which is being sold to US asset management firm Apollo at a valuation of €2.2 billion.

The television broadcaster is now valued at NIS 480 million. Bezeq has reached 2.9 million households connected to fiber-optic cable.

After raising only $260 million in the first half of the year, Israeli venbture capital firms have announced $1.37 billion in new funds since the end of the war, IVC-Gornitzky-KPMG reports.