For years, Israel’s high-tech industry has been concentrated in the center. Anyone looking to build a company, stay close to capital, talent, and customers knew exactly where to go. But the deep tech revolution is changing the rules of the game. Quantum, defense tech, energy, and advanced hardware are not born in a café in…
Israeli Deputy Minister Sharren Haskel says relations between Israel and Greece are “flourishing” following a three-day visit to Athens focused on diplomacy and bilateral economic affairs. During the visit, Haskel met senior Greek officials, including Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandra Papadopoulou, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy Harry Theoharis, and alternate Minister…
Israeli opposition leaders Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid have united in an attempt to defeat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and lead Israel’s next government. But while they have lots to criticise Netanyahu about, they have few qualms with his wars in Gaza and the rest of the region. Those wars – in particular the genocide…
.How U.S.–Israel–Iran conflict is rewiring global trade, weakening China’s leverage, testing Nigeria’s economic resilience The escalating confrontation involving the United States, Israel, and Iran has transitioned from a regional geopolitical dispute into a systemic global economic disruption, redefining the architecture of trade, energy security, and industrial production. What initially emerged as targeted strikes against Iranian…
Israel appointed Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) CEO Boaz Levy as chairman of the company’s board of directors, marking the first time a serving chief executive of an Israeli government-owned company has also been named chairman of the same company. Defense Minister Israel Katz and Minister in charge of the Government Companies Authority Dudi Amsalem signed…
May 16, 2026 ITS Logistics, a subsidiary of Echo Global Logistics, published its May outlook in the ITS Logistics Port/Rail Ramp Freight Index. The report indicates heightened conditions in the Atlantic and Gulf port zones, alongside difficulties with outbound capacity and container handling at major West Coast terminals. Strait of Hormuz Disruptions Reshape Trade Flows…
New Delhi, May 14: The proposed India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is gaining diplomatic traction, with senior officials from Greece and Israel endorsing the initiative as a transformative trade and connectivity project with significant geopolitical and economic implications. Alexandra Papadopoulou described IMEC as a “long-term certificate for stability,” highlighting its potential to reshape trade and…
Timing is everything. Late last month, Pakistan announced the opening of overland trade corridors with Iran that will allow Tehran to import goods from Pakistan’s deepwater ports at a time when the U.S. blockade has closed off the country’s access to shipping through the Hormuz Strait. The initiative was first conceived in 2008 through an…
The Israel Ministry of Defence led a delegation of 32 Israeli defence companies to the second Finnish-Israeli Defence Industry Seminar held this week in Helsinki. The delegation was organised by the ministry’s International Defence Cooperation Directorate, known as SIBAT, and included seven defence technology startups for the first time. The startups participated under the Ministry…
The Middle Corridor is rapidly emerging as one of the world’s most strategically important trade routes as countries across Eurasia seek alternatives to traditional transportation networks dominated by Russia and maritime chokepoints vulnerable to geopolitical tensions. Stretching from China through Central Asia, across the Caspian Sea, through the Caucasus and Türkiye, and onward to Europe,…
