In 2025, Israel’s Competition Authority received 205 merger requests. Most of them were approved within about a month – but the review of some dragged on for months, and in certain cases for a full year. In a Globes article, Hagai Doron, partner and head of the Antitrust and Regulation Department at the firm, discusses the cost and implications of this long wait for the Israeli economy – ranging from hampering companies at critical growth stages to ultimately stifling entrepreneurship and investment altogether.
