Rotem Starkman

This comes in the wake of several cases where such information appeared in the media before being made public. Among the companies whose results have been leaked: Bank Hapoalim, Clal Insurance, Migdal Insurance and Africa Israel Investments.

Ofer associates said recently they would not be surprised if he left Israel, in light of the state's actions toward his businesses. They said Idan's father, Sammy Ofer, has expressed even sharper criticism of the state's behavior.

Delek Real Estate managing director Ilik (Hillel) Rozanski recently received an offer to acquire most of the Reichman family holdings in Canada. The deal is valued at $1 billion.

Yehonatan Gefen wrote a beloved children's song 25 years ago about the old Elite factory near the entrance to Ramat Gan, across from the diamond exchange.

A year and a half after taking over IDB, Nochi Dankner is resolutely reorganizing the group's real-estate operations.

2004 was a very good year economically, according to data released by the Central Bureau of Statistics yesterday. The economy expanded 4.3 percent, more than tripling 2003's growth rate of 1.3 percent.

Elbit Imaging shareholders to vote on his pay, get $37m dividend meanwhile.

Grocery retailer Clubmarket is behind on the rent on the flagship branch of its discount supermarket chain Jumbo, Haaretz has learned.

Israel Securities Authority investigators yesterday raided the offices of Bank Leumi in Nes Tziona. The raid is believed to be part of an ongoing investigation into mutual fund advice.

According to an appraisal ordered by Haaretz, Sharon's primary asset, Sycamore Ranch, is now worth $11.3 million or a cool NIS 50 million. The value of the farm has risen virtually miraculously since the early 1970s, when he paid only $500,000 for it.

Insurance company Menora has acquired 5 percent of El-Ad Canada's bond offering, which was completed yesterday.

Together with other investment readjustments for the company, particularly through commercial tenders in Eastern Europe, Europe Israel has written off some NIS 68 million in 2004, of which NIS 44 million were in the third quarter alone.

Did you know that if you had invested NIS 100,000 10 years ago in the clothing company FMS, your investment would now be worth NIS 2.2 million?

Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is convinced that his economic policies are working, so much so that he has convinced the government that any new coalition partners must fall in line with them.

There's certainly an air of celebration on Ahad Ha'am Street in Tel Aviv nowadays. The future of the ruling coalition may be uncertain, peace hasn't broken out in the Middle East and the dollar may be as weak as water, yet Tel Aviv stocks reached record heights yesterday.