Eytan Avriel

The Bank of Israel governor rides to the rescue of Israel's industrialists and exporters hammered by speculators.

That's how it goes, everybody knows; especially Finance Minister Yair Lapid, whose proposed state budget not only turns on his core middle-class constituency, it is also terrible in terms of economic analysis.

The IDB saga shows that the country now has institutional investors willing to confront the big guys.

Our bankers really believed they were sacrosanct. But suddenly the people realized that was balderdash. Is that a whiff of revolution?

Many readers were ticked off when it was reported that Nochi Dankner is going to get out millions of shekels of personal debts, but there are several factors at play.

Bye, bye Idan. Your move won't impact Israel’s economy, but it does send a clear message to taxpayers.

Should each citizen pay an identical amount, or should the cost be allocated progressively like income tax?

The strengthening of the shekel last week is a taste of things to come in the foreign exchange market, unless the central bank acts.

Solicitation of campaign loan guarantors was approved by State Comptroller.

The local startup entrepreneur is the poster child of the brash, bold and quick-witted Israeli showing Silicon Valley how things are done - but that status is getting harder and harder to obtain.

'Economic concentration' is a vague and boring term until it translates into less money in your pocket at the end of the day. That day is here.

Why your analyst is urging you to buy more and more bonds, and why you could get badly burnt.

The list of embattled Israeli tycoons has kept growing, as did those waving scissors at investors. Here's how to change that.

The public's gut feelings about socioeconomic matters is usually right – but it takes an academic study to prove it.

Ishay Davidi will buy the airline - but only if the union agrees that there's a new sheriff in town. This is a model for a nation's emulation.

The early exit of the respected Bank of Israel governor may not have come as a surprise, but it nevertheless leaves a gaping hole in Israeli economics, one which will be tough to fill.

A breakdown of last week's election results shows that where the money flows, so does enthusiasm for Yair Lapid. If Israel's dark-horse politician does become finance minister, he could be in for a rude awakening.

Thanks to bad estimates, budget cuts and scale backs across the Eurozone have gutted the region's economy, a new report says, with damage much more widespread than previously thought.

Delaying repayment without compensation and putting in no money of his own. Doesn't sound like an offer investors can't resist.

Forget editors. Israeli entrepreneurs lead in directing online readers better than a human editor.

What's the lesson behind the latest arrangement reached by IDB Holdings? That if you owe enough money, you get to set the rules.

Israel's ranking in Transparency International's global corruption index continues to slide; Hong Kong cleaned up its act. And us?

Low-intensity conflict serves several goals, one of which marketing for the military establishment. As an added bonus, it also boosts the defense budget.

Studies show that participants with a higher socioeconomic status have a greater inclination toward unethical and immoral behavior than others.

If the banks are akin to public services, their bosses shouldn't be earning a million shekels a month.

Last week Barclays was fined $93 million, the largest fine ever levied on a British bank, for "deceitful manipulation" of financial rates. If it's happening in London, you can be sure it's happening in Tel Aviv too.

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino rakes in a cool 14 million shekels, keeping him far removed from the ever-heated social justice protests.

French thinker Jacques Attali proposes a push towards a completely federalized Europe. Might that work right here in the Middle East?