The Tel Aviv Inventory Trade (TASE) can already declare the swap to Friday buying and selling as successful. Summing up nearly the primary quarter of 2026 and the introduction of Monay to Friday buying and selling (as an alternative of Sunday to Thursday), buying and selling volumes have jumped considerably. TASE knowledge present the typical turnover on Fridays within the inventory market (excluding ETFs) is about NIS 3.3 billion – a turnover triple the typical buying and selling on Sundays in 2025, which was solely NIS 1.1 billion.
International traders are liable for a good portion of the soar in buying and selling volumes on the TASE. This was the goal of the introduction of Friday buying and selling by TASE CEO Itay Ben Zeev – to align with the routine buying and selling week for the world’s inventory exchanges and improve the attractiveness of the Israeli market within the eyes of foreigners. The information present that the share of international traders on Fridays is 44% of each day buying and selling, in contrast with solely 15% in buying and selling on Sundays final 12 months.
TASE analysis unit head Hadar Romano says, “The size of international buying and selling exercise has elevated, amongst different issues, following the transition to a Monday-Friday buying and selling format, which contributes to deepening liquidity available in the market.”
TASE knowledge additionally present that international traders have deepened their buying and selling exercise in Tel Aviv all through the battle, which broke on the final day of February. In accordance with TASE knowledge seen by “Globes,” the share of international traders in each day buying and selling on the TASE jumped from 35% earlier than the battle to 41% of buying and selling throughout the battle. The remainder of the buying and selling is split between institutional traders, retail traders, nostro entities and others. Furthermore, the share of international traders in buying and selling has elevated at a time when general buying and selling quantity has elevated.
From the start of 2026 till the battle, the share of foreigners in buying and selling on the TASE stood at NIS 1.2 billion per day (out of a mean each day turnover of NIS 3.8 billion, excluding ETFs), whereas for the reason that starting of the battle, their share has jumped to NIS 1.9 billion per day, out of a mean each day buying and selling turnover of NIS 4.6 billion, excluding ETFs.
“They actually like arbitrage exercise”
In accordance with TASE knowledge, within the first two weeks of the preventing, these international traders bought shares, primarily within the banking sector, after pouring massive sums into it in 2024. However final week they returned to purchasing shares in Tel Aviv.
Romano says, “The transfer to buying and selling on Fridays improved the general buying and selling quantity, however notably affected dual-traded shares (these traded each in Tel Aviv and on Wall Avenue).” Thus, the share of foreigners in buying and selling in these shares on Fridays jumped to 48% of the whole turnover, in contrast with solely 16% in twin buying and selling on Sundays. Accordingly, the whole turnover in dual-traded shares in Tel Aviv on Fridays jumped threefold, from NIS 255 million on Sundays final 12 months to about NIS 1 billion on Fridays – nearly half of it was on account of international traders.
Romano provides, “The change in buying and selling days was additionally made in order that traders might reply to abroad markets as early as Friday. Foreigners actually like arbitrage exercise. It permits them to make fast income and reap the benefits of the hole in buying and selling hours between abroad and Israel. When buying and selling was on Sunday, they responded as soon as to buying and selling on Thursday and Friday abroad, now they’ll reply as early as Friday and generate fast income for themselves.”
An additional examination carried out by the TASE analysis unit evaluating twin buying and selling knowledge between the TASE and overseas discovered that buying and selling volumes of dual-traded shares elevated in Tel Aviv by about 94% for the reason that begin of 2026, whereas overseas the rise in turnover in the identical shares is about 84%.
Coming quickly: Extra dual-traded shares in Tel Aviv?
The increase in buying and selling in dual-traded shares is necessary to the TASE for one more cause. Following the current itemizing of US cybersecurity big Palo Alto Networks in Tel Aviv TASE VP financial division Ron Klein explains, “We’re seeing a really important enhance in firms contacting us concerning twin itemizing. I cautiously estimate that this 12 months we’ll see a big variety of new twin itemizing firms. If in earlier years there have been zero, or one or two of those, at the moment there’s curiosity that was not there earlier than, and likewise concrete plans from large firms to hold out twin itemizing.”
When requested how a lot is a “important quantity,” Klein declines to elaborate, however it may be assumed that they would definitely be joyful if the quantity is 8-9 new twin itemizing firms.
The TASE claims that, in parallel with twin itemizing firms, non-public Israeli firms, which beforehand geared toward Wall Avenue, are additionally focused on itemizing for buying and selling in Tel Aviv. “Corporations value $1-3 billion wouldn’t have checked out Tel Aviv previously, however at the moment, when the median worth in Wall Avenue IPOs has already reached $6 billion, these Israeli firms are already wanting on the TASE and perceive that that is the related area for the stage they’re in,” says Klein. In accordance with him, “Prior to now, international funding banks needed to persuade firms to go public in Tel Aviv, and at the moment the businesses already need it themselves.”
Printed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on March 24, 2026.
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