Banque Commerciale de Palestine (Commercial Bank of Palestine) was considered by the  Arabs of the Land of Israel to be their national bank, although we

The bank was founded in 1931 as Alexander Eliash & Co. Ltd. By  Alexander Eliash (1896-1967), originally from Uman in Ukraine. Eliash immigrated to the

In the 1930s, dozens of banks were established in the Land of Israel, mainly small ones. Most of  them closed by the end of the

The Mizrahi Bank was established in 1923 by the International Center of the Mizrahi  Movement, the religious Zionist movement. From its inception, the Bank raised

After the Nazis came into power in Germany at the end of January 1933, many middle class Jews from Germany made aliyah, influencing trade and

The Marine Trust Limited (Otzar Mifalei Yam) was established 1936, in order to fund the construction and maintenance of Jewish ports in the Land of

The bank was founded in 1897 with the support of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Its aim was supporting German interests in the Middle

Bank Lecredit Gomleen was founded in 1926 as a bank based on a cooperative society, which helped its middle  class members with loans for construction

The Bne-Binyamin movement was founded in 1921 by Alexander Aaronson, with the aim of assisting residents of  agricultural colonies; its leaders included Itamar Ben-Avi (well

The company was established in October 1940 by the Farmers’ Federation of the Land of Israel, as a mortgage  bank for citrus growers in particular

The Industrial Development Bank of Israel Ltd. was one of three banks established by the Government of Israel  in the 1950s in order to provide

The Trade Bank was established in the mid-1930s and operated out of a single branch in Tel Aviv. The bank  became widely known in 2002,