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Vice Media files for Chapter 11 to facilitate sale to Soros, consortium

Vice Media Group listed both assets and liabilities in the range of $500 million to $1 billion ahead of a sale to a consortium, including George Soros's hedge fund.

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 SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) logo is seen through broken glass in this illustration taken March 10, 2023.

SVB Financial seeks bankruptcy protection for reorganization

  FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried poses for a picture, in an unspecified location, in this undated handout picture, obtained by Reuters on July 5, 2022.

FTX collapse: BlockFi sues a Bankman-Fried company

 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan greets people during the opening ceremony of Eurasia Tunnel in Istanbul, Turkey, December 20, 2016.

Turkey’s state banks withdraw from Russian payment system


Alex Jones' InfoWars files for bankruptcy in US court

Sandy Hook families in late March rejected Jones' offer to settle their defamation lawsuit and reopened the case. Jones had offered to pay $120,000 to each of the 13 plaintiffs to settle the case.

 Right-wing radio talk show host Alex Jones speaks during a rally at Freedom Plaza, ahead of the U.S. Congress certification of the November 2020 election results, during protests in Washington, US, January 5, 2021

Israel saw 38% increase in bankruptcy filings in 2020

It is clear that people whose salary is about NIS 6,000 to NIS 7,000 per month cannot repay loans of hundreds of thousands of shekels, the repayment of which is thousands of shekels a month.

Illustrative photo of Israeli money

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“You can make a very good meal from an egg,” a friend told me, a comment that has stayed with me to this day.

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Israel central bank to hold key rate despite strong shekel - Reuters poll

The Bank of Israel foresees growth of 1% to 6.5% in 2021.

The Bank of Israel building is seen in Jerusalem June 16, 2020.

El Al reveals Q3 figures: $147m losses, $125m deficit, no progress on state loan

The Israeli airline reports a drop of 94% in earnings since July • future of air travel remains uncertain, Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA files for bankruptcy

El Al plane

Hertz files for US bankruptcy protection as car rentals evaporate

With nearly $19 billion of debt and roughly 38,000 employees worldwide as of the end of 2019, Hertz is among the largest companies to be undone by the pandemic.

A HERTZ RENTAL car sign is placed outside a rental lot near Detroit Metropolitan airport in Romulus, Michigan

J.C. Penney to file for bankruptcy as soon as next week

A bankruptcy filing would cap a long decline for the iconic 118-year-old department store chain, which struggled with a nearly $4-billion debt load.

A JC Penney store is shown in Oceanside, California, U.S., July 31, 2019. Picture taken July 31, 2019

Tel Aviv police shut down tent protest by self-employed workers

The protest was put up throughout the weekend by the employees whose businesses collapsed financially because of the coronavirus restrictions.

Police shut down a Tel Aviv tent protest by self-employed workers about unfair conditions amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Top ex-gov’t bankruptcy official tells Jpost how to save the economy

A combination of government support, encouraging negotiated solutions to financial dead-ends and pushing Israel’s bankruptcy laws closer to the US model may all be needed

An electronic board displaying market data is seen at the entrance of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, in Tel Aviv, Israel

National Museum of American Jewish History files for bankruptcy

Despite the bankruptcy protection filing, the museum will continue to operate as normal, and while there will be reorganization, there will not be any layoffs.

The National Museum of American Jewish History.

Barney’s stores to be sold off in pieces after nearly century in business

Barney Pressman, whose father owned a clothing store, opened his first department store in Manhattan in 1923.

Barneys New York sign is seen in a display window outside the luxury department store