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Jun 11, 2026, 9:30 PM

Bituach Leumi: The Israeli Safety Net You’re Paying Into

Somewhere around month three of your aliyah, you notice it. A line on your payslip. A deduction with quiet regularity landing somewhere called the National Insurance Institute. You Google it. You get a Hebrew government website. You close the tab. This...

Reuven Chaim Klein

May 4, 2026, 12:08 AM

Show Me the Money – mammon, damim, maot, zuzim

Even though back in ancient times, they may not have had all the complex financial instruments that we use nowadays, people were certainly well-aware of the concept of “money,” and its use as legal tender. In this essay, we...

Apr 13, 2026, 12:11 AM

Inflation in Tel Aviv

March 11, 2026. Walking around Tel-Aviv, 11 days into the war. I’m tired and hungry, with one eye on the buildings for shelters in case of another alarm, the other scanning the stores looking for food. Suddenly the nose picks up...

Mar 29, 2026, 6:18 PM

What Financial Freedom Really Means

The other day, I found myself adding “just one more thing” to my online cart. It was nothing dramatic - a household item, a small treat, something for the children. But when I looked at the total, I had...

Mar 19, 2026, 3:06 PM

Opening a Bank Account in Israel

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What They Don't Tell You at the Airport You've survived the flight, charmed your way through Misrad HaPnim, and found an apartment that's technically within budget if you don't count parking. Well done. Now comes the part nobody puts on...

Mar 17, 2026, 10:20 AM

A Masterclass in Selective Care

I don’t mean to sound ungrateful about being on the "winning side" and witnessing the downfall of the axis of evil but, while the whole country kind of knew for some time that this was going to happen any...

Mar 16, 2026, 3:15 PM

The $111 billion discount

Israel pays a steep price for capital markets that can't keep up with its entrepreneurs

Mar 12, 2026, 3:14 PM

Israel should buy the Bitcoin dip

Illustration of Bitcoin and the Knesset. Image generated by the author.

This past week, the 20 millionth of the 21 million bitcoins that will ever exist was mined, leaving fewer than one million left to be mined over the coming decades. This milestone was reached while the digital asset market...

Feb 26, 2026, 10:34 AM

Social Banks Are the Next Stage of Banking

Ogen CEO Sagi Balasha and Israel’s Supervisor of Banks, Daniel Hahiashvili, at the Ogen Conference in December 2025. (Ronen Topelberg).

In global discussions about economic resilience, financial exclusion rarely gains sufficient focus. It seldom dominates headlines and almost never commands the urgency reserved for security or geopolitical threats. In Israel, however, access to fair credit defines the economic reality...

Feb 16, 2026, 11:23 AM

Two Green Prints: Trend… or Tease?

For most of 2025, the Israeli housing market looked like it was slowly exhaling. After eight consecutive index readings showing declines, the latest Central Bureau of Statistics data finally flipped the story: two back-to-back increases at the end of...

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