Informing
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Needed: Goliaths instead of Davids

Israel needs more than start-up exits, it needs companies that can scale up to global giants. Web builder Wix is taking up the challenge.

On wings of carbon

Israel Aerospace Industries is engaged in high-tech manufacturing for the F-35 fighter jet project.

The pensions time bomb

In less than a decade, payments from the old-age benefits fund will exceed income, and by 2042 or earlier, the whole fund will be gone. Despite 20 years of legislation and reforms, the penion crisis has become worse.

Xin Chào, Vietnam!

Vietnamese want to learn the Israeli ‘secret sauce’ of technology-intensive entrepreneurship

Shocks, sheikhs and shale

The price of oil peaked at $145 a barrel in July 2008 and is now below $50. The cause: Saudi oil sheikhs refuse to slash production to stabilize prices, while American shale production soars.

Tel Aviv white elephant

The ‘New’ Central Bus Station languishes in semi-neglect, a strange, partly unseen, humming underworld of activity.