Bank Leumi

'Israeli innovation will drive economy’s growth,' Bank Leumi VP tells 'Post' Conference

Eyal Efrat said that Bank Leumi has continued to operate fully throughout the past three years of war and praised the resilience of its employees and customers.

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Pedestrians are reflected in the windows of a branch of Bank Leumi, Israel's second-largest lender, in Tel Aviv, Israel

Bank Leumi ranks second in MENA region for innovation, first in Israel for AI implementation

Co-founders and owners of Profit Financial Group, Shlomi Elberg and Assaf Banai.

Leumi, Shestovitz take stakes in Profit Finance Group with NIS 670 million investment

Maya Eisen Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech

Despite the war: Israeli high-tech opens 2026 with approximately $3.1 billion in funding


Leumi Tech CEO: Looking at things differently

Hi-tech and start-ups in Israel require special attention and treatment, says Yifat Oron

Hi-tech employees attend Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in Tel Aviv last month, held for the first time in Israel

How Equifax’s data breach threatens Israeli security

US consumer credit company hack could provide intelligence data for Iran, says expert

CREDIT-REPORTING company Equifax Inc. corporate offices are pictured in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 8

Reports of money laundering on the rise in Israel

Money laundering - the practice of concealing the origins of illegally-obtained money - helps finance terrorist and criminal groups.

Shekel money bills

One-on-one with an Israeli revolutionary

Some consider political activist and criminal lawyer Barak Cohen a violent bully; for others he is a source of inspiration. In an interview he explains more about his tactics and offers advice.

Israelis take part in a demonstration against austerity measures in Tel Aviv in 2013

Knesset seeks expanded subpoena powers to probe banks’ secret deals

Lawmakers seek expanded powers to force banks to reveal confidential information about customers.

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‘We’ve got to change the norms’

American-Israeli Eliezer Jaffe works to bring interest-free loans to first-time home buyers.

ELIEZER JAFFE, founder and president of the Israel Free Loan Association, wants to help first-time home buyers with their down payments

'Fortune' ranks Israeli Bank Leumi CEO among most powerful women

Russak-Aminoach, the only Israeli on the list, was ranked 43rd on the 50-strong list dominated by countries such as the UK, China and Switzerland.

Bank Leumi CEO and President Rakefet Russak-Aminoach

Kahlon, Flug strike deal on financial sector reform

Proposal would spin credit card companies out from biggest banks, allow them to become banks in their own right.

Moshe Kahlon

NGO: No protection for Israeli banks with PA ties in terrorism lawsuits

Last February, a US jury handed down a $655.5 million judgment in wrongful death damages against the PA in a case brought by 10 American families that lost relatives in Palestinian terrorist attacks.

A WOMAN uses an automated teller machine outside a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv three years ago.

Knesset passes limits on finance executives' pay

The law limits tax breaks on executive salaries at NIS 2.5 million a year, or 44 times the salary of the lowest-paid worker.

A WOMAN uses an automated teller machine outside a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv three years ago.