Finance

Ashdod Port company reports financial results for the first quarter of 2026

Ashdod Port continues to demonstrate growth in the first quarter of 2026, while maintaining full operational continuity during a complex security period.

“Ashdod Port posted higher revenues in Q1 2026 while maintaining operational resilience despite wartime challenges.”
An illustrative image of New Israeli Shekels in a wallet.

Your Investments: The spies and fear of financial success

 New Olim celebrate arrival in Israel

Your Taxes: New Israeli rules could save US olim money and affect businesses

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


The financial model that safeguards everyone’s water

In a special podcast series by The Jerusalem Post, senior executives of Israel’s national water company pull back the curtain on what happens behind the scenes.

General view of the Israeli largest desalination plant on the Mediterranean Sea, in Ashdod on . The facility is located in Ashkelon, not far from the northern border of the Gaza Strip. In the first phase of operation, it is meant to supply 100 million cubic meters of water a year.

Smotrich threatens to double tax on Israeli banks if consumer benefits canceled

According to the Finance Ministry, the tax will bring in NIS 1.13 billion in 2026, rising to NIS 1.5 billion each year from 2027 to 2029.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich arrives to a conference of the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon in Jerusalem, December 25, 2025

Ogen unveils roadmap for Israel’s first social bank

New banking model aimed at serving households, small businesses, and nonprofits left behind by commercial banking system

Ogen CEO Sagi Balasha speaking at the Ogen Conference in Tel Aviv, December 25, 2025

Italian police arrest nine for raising millions in terror funding for Hamas

Three associations that claimed to support Palestinian civilians are also implicated, allegedly serving as a front for Hamas funding, local police said.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators sits down in front of police officers during the protest on the Milan's highway against the interception by Israeli army of the Global Sumud Flotilla, on October 3, 2025.

Your Investments: The cost of investor overconfidence

It’s much easier to make money when everything keeps going up. The temptation for investors is to start taking more risk than they are able to handle.

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Your Taxes: What Israelis should review before tax year closes

The Israel-Hamas War has added to the government’s budgetary needs. So, taxes won’t be cut any time soon.

 Illustrative image of doing taxes.

Your Investments: Patience consistently beats prediction when navigating market fluctuations

"Most successful pundits are selected for being opinionated, because it’s interesting, and the penalties for incorrect predictions are negligible." - Daniel Kahneman

THEN-US PRESIDENT Barack Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Daniel Kahneman in the East Room at the White House in 2013.

Israel’s pension gap begins long before workers reach retirement - opinion

The roots of Israel’s pension crisis lie in education, employment, and income, not in retirement age.

 View of the National Insurance Institute offices in Jerusalem. January 23, 2017.

Your Taxes: How does Israel tax foreign pensions? The laws all immigrants should know

US Social Security is exempt in both the US and Israel under the US-Israel tax treaty.

 Many Jews from abroad view property purchases in Israel as a form of pension plan.

Your Investments: The learning power of Hanukkah, using gelt as educational tool for kids

Never spend your money before you have earned it. – Thomas Jefferson

An illustrative image of a cat alongside Hanukkah paraphenalia.