Economy of israel

Amid shekel-dollar crisis: Hi-tech sector gains strength as Israel's main export with 58% in 2025

The trend is driven mainly by the sector's dominance of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) projects, which export these services overseas and are highly dependent on foreign-currency income.

Evening view of the Tel Aviv skyline. October 26, 2025.
People walk near office towers at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020

Tech industry mutating before our eyes

(ILLUSTRATIVE) A logo of Meta AI sits outside the Meta House on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025.

Behind the layoff headlines lies a more complex reality - opinion

Minister of Economy Nir Barkat

Can Israel’s economy survive after a seven-front war?


We must boost the resilient Israeli industry in border regions - opinion

Ultimately, the success of industry on the periphery is our success as a nation and as a society. We must act together to guarantee the economic and national resilience of the State of Israel.

AN EMPLOYEE of Eshet-Eilon, manufacturers of agricultural sorting machinery for export, works under daily missile attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon, on Kibbutz Eilon, Western Galilee, earlier this year.

Former INSS head: Investors in Israel need to see plan for a day after the war

A potential global loss of confidence in Israel's economy is one part of a twofold economic problem Israel is facing. Security spending in 2024 will be more than 10% of GDP

 Manuel Trajtenberg attends the international INSS conference in Tel Aviv on April 11, 2022.

CBS: Real average wages up 4.4% from last year, down from March

Average wages for Israeli workers were down in April of 2024 when compared to March 2024.

 The Finance Ministry offices are seen on May 14, 2023

Israel’s economy was struggling long before October 7, expert says

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Prof. Yaron Zelekha and Tamar Uriel Beeri

Brace for impact: As Hezbollah escalates in North, we must prepare for emergency - opinion

Israelis hanker for such leadership today. The emergency mobilization of society and economy described is certainly necessary, and Israelis assuredly will be up to the task.

 Israeli police work at the area where a rocket landed in Kiryat Shmona, February 13, 2024

Your Taxes: The end of cost plus in Israel? - opinion

The Israeli Tax Authority (ITA) has just won a significant victory in the District Court against the use of the “cost plus” basis of compensation.

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)

Israel's 2025 budget: Smotrich announces changes to how budget built, work to start this week

Per the minister's instructions, presentations on the budget will be held over two focused days instead of over the course of months.

 Bezalel Smotrich

Leading Israeli economists: Government policy regarding haredim is an existential threat to Israel

Among those signed on the letter are numerous prominent Israeli economists, including 73 professors, some from Israel's leading academic institutions.

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked traffic and the light rail  in Jerusalem demonstrating against a Haredi draft into the IDF. February 26, 2024.

Israel's GDP grows 14.1% in first quarter of 2024

Spending is still high, however private consumption and investment have yet to return to pre war levels, said the CBS.

 People shop for groceries at the Shufersal Deal supermarket in Katsrin, Golan Heights, on February 9, 2024.

Tnuva hikes food prices after January NIS 200 m. dividend issue

The rise in price of price-controlled dairy was announced last month, and follows an Israeli government system for updating these prices.

 The logo of dairy firm Tnuva is seen at the company's logistic centre in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi May 22, 2014