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'Send me the money': How unpaid debts are straining Gen Z friendships

You pick up the tab. Your friends promise to pay you back. Then come the excuses or silence. A new US report finds 'repayment avoidance' is straining Gen Z friendships, with 32% delaying payments and some owing thousands of dollars

Daniel Edelson, New York | 09.13.26

America is $40 trillion in debt — and that’s not even the problem

Opinion: Rising yields are making America’s vast debt increasingly expensive to service, but an AI-driven productivity boom could accelerate growth, boost tax revenue and ease the burden

Daniel Leitner | 09.02.26

Israeli falafel chain in New York collapsed due to debt and BDS activists tried to take credit

Branches of the Ta'im chain in New York have been closed in recent days by the state's tax authorities over a debt dispute; BDS activists were quick to attribute the closure to the boycott campaign, though there is no evidence of this

Daniel Edelson in New York | 08.19.26

'We know where you live': convicted criminal allegedly ran brutal gambling empire from behind bars

Ten defendants are accused of running a NIS 3 million loan-sharking and extortion network involving 180% annual interest, a rigged roulette table and an attack dog used against a debtor

Yair Kraus | 07.20.26

Why Israel is closing an elderly woman’s 21 million-shekel debt case

Jerusalem registrar says 73-year-old cancer patient should be allowed to focus her limited resources on potentially life-saving treatment after most creditors failed to object

Lital Dubrovitsky | 07.09.26

מתחם אירוח באילת של יובל רפאל ששיכן מפונים

He opened 200 Airbnb apartments to war evacuees for free. Now he owes 49 million shekels

Yuval Raphael says his short-term rental business collapsed after October 7, when he housed about 1,000 evacuees at no cost and later faced the shutdown of foreign tourism, flight cancellations and mounting personal guarantees

Lital Dubrovitsky | 07.06.26

Israeli businessman faces debt proceedings weeks after $4.5B ZIM bid

Haim Sakal, whose family once operated duty-free stores at Ben Gurion Airport, recently offered to buy ZIM and reportedly Arkia, but a Herzliya Pituach property he owns is now tied to a 15 million shekel debt

Golan Hazani, Calcalist | 06.17.26

‘He left me alone with 6 kids’: the ‘father hunters’ pursuing support debtors abroad

Justice Ministry unit collected $2.7 million from parents overseas in 2023-2024, using international tools to enforce unpaid child support claims

Maya Cohen | 06.05.26

'Bring the money or die': man kidnapped, tortured with heated iron rod in northern Israel over debt

A 25-year-old suspect from Daburiyya was indicted after police said he tortured the victim for hours in a cabin near Afula before the latter managed to alert his wife, who called the police

Hassan Shaalan | 02.17.26

'I emptied my savings': how National Insurance miscalculation left reservists facing massive debts

Thousands of reservists have been told to repay large sums after National Insurance recalculated reserve duty benefits retroactively, citing inflated wage data during wartime service, leaving many with debts of tens of thousands of shekels

Gal Ganot, Shira Kadari-Ovadia | 01.20.26

Court erases pensioner’s debt after drug‑addicted son secretly took loans in her name

Jerusalem judge cleared debts after late son used her name to take loans and buy drugs, leaving her financially ruined; judge cited her age, health, lack of assets and the injustice of forcing her to remain in insolvency

Lital Dubrovitsky | 12.18.25

Judge rules man NIS 1 million in debt must give up his Tesla: 'He can make do with public transit'

A judge rejected a man’s request to keep paying thousands of shekels a month for a luxury Tesla while in insolvency proceedings over roughly NIS 1 million in debt, saying his household can make do with a modest car or public transit

Lital Dubrovitsky | 12.11.25

Tel Aviv court eases debt for IDF reservist after nearly two years of wartime service

Registrar cites soldier’s long absences on duty in approving a plan that cuts his debt by more than half and spreads the remaining payments over four years

Attorney Hofit Sivan | 12.03.25

Debtor delivers mountain of coins to pay fine; court rejects it as ‘bad faith’

Defendant delivers 18 boxes holding over 500 pounds of half-shekel coins to settle an 18,000-shekel fee, but enforcement registrar rules stunt showed bad faith and fined him, while still allowing payment in coins if coordinated in advance

Lital Dubrovitsky | 12.01.25

Tel Aviv court slashes nearly $390,000 in debt for Sderot man haunted by October 7 trauma

A 60-year-old Sderot resident, plagued by anxiety and hallucinations since the Hamas massacre, was granted a rare debt reduction by a Tel Aviv court, wiping nearly NIS 1.5 million in interest due to his fragile mental state and years of repayments

Attorney Maor Kinder | 11.10.25

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