Ayalon Highways will run a seven-year trial of incentives to drivers to avoid using private vehicles at peak hours.

Business in Brief: PolyPid raising $75 million in U.S. IPO ■ Ex-CEO’s assets seized ■ Final bounce leaves Tel Aviv with gain

Polish media report cite the two countries' recent diplomatic crisis as reason for why the Warsaw bourse was not shortlisted

Business in Brief: Jacob Richter leading shareholder group selling Orbotech holdings ■ Teva prices enlarged $4.5b issue of senior notes ■ Tel Aviv shares end little changed; Leumi now top bank by market cap

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: An American-Israeli marketing exec describes selling the Israeli dream to investors ■ A scientist travels from France to Israel to be alone in the desert

Business in Brief: Saidoff seeks to block reform of board nominations at Bezeq ■ Tel Aviv shares extend gains despite a turn higher on Wall Street

This week at the Tel Aviv airport: The best Jewish cage fighter in Western Canada talks about his upcoming graphic novel ■ The secret to getting your life together, according to an Israeli sales manager

Business in Brief | Major demand for Starwood Capital bonds in institutional phase ■ Bank Hapoalim to set aside another $75 million over U.S. tax investigation ■ Teva seeking to raise $3.9 billion in bond offering

Energy shares leaped in Tel Aviv on news of 10-year, $15 billion export deal from Leviathan and Tamar

Intel says no large project is currently planned. Minister of Finance Moshe Kahlon was speaking at the Ecosystem Haifa conference.

TASE offering 71.7% holding being bought back from bank members

Business in Brief: ION Asset Management posted top returns among Israeli hedge funds in 2017 ■ Elsztain formally submits bid for Eurocom after antitrust agency issues clarifications ■ Wall Street continues to cast pall over Tel Aviv shares

Lebanon’s oil minister has vowed Beirut will go ahead in its oil and gas exploration tender near its maritime border with Israel despite Israeli claims ...

Medley Capital of U.S. issues bonds in Tel Aviv; BioCanCell raises $25 million; Chiron Refineries enters cryptocurrency business; stocks edge up

Teva reports disappointing results from asthma drug trials ■ Discount transfers 5% Cellcom stake to two Elsztain allies to conform with law ■ Delek’s Ithaca unit sells oil field to help pay down debt ■ Teva, Israel Chemicals give a lift to Tel Aviv shares

Tel Aviv to host VC fund being launched by Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi partnership, Italian energy firm seeking renewable energy partnerships in Israel, Israel lifts ban on 3G data in West Bank

Teva reveals share, option holdings of directors, executives ■ Oil Refineries gets nod to develop $200 million gas-fired power plant ■ Adom Finance abandons pioneering issue of bonds to be invested in bank deposits ■ Tel Aviv shares end lower as dollar gains on intervention

Business in Brief: Small gain for TA-35 in 2017, but some sectors showed double-digit rises ■ Discount has biggest exposure to leveraged lending of Israeli banks

Business in Brief | Tel Aviv shares trade mixed as energy stocks post gains ■ BioCanCell tender offers fails to win minority-shareholder backing ■ Apax receives 500 million shekel offer for Zap from Axel Springer ■ Discount Bank resumes dividend payout after nine years

High Court asked to block law banning trading in binary options ■ High Court asked to block law banning trading in binary options ■ Together shares soar on plans to enter medical marijuana business ■ Tel Aviv shares end unchanged in quiet trading