Food industry

'No one is willing to take a risk': Hard hit to the event catering sector

Three years of ongoing uncertainty are eroding event catering companies' profitability, with only the largest managing to keep their heads above water.

Catering.
Supermarket cheese shelves, June 18, 2026

Cottage cheese crisis expands to white cheese

 Cattle stand on a feedlot at CMA Farm in Barretos, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, December 17, 2025.

Flesh-eating screwworm confirmed in Texan calf, prompting USDA quarantine

Meal for hikers by NakedPak.

The Israeli developments that are changing the food industry


Burger King to deploy AI that monitors employee "friendliness"

Burger King is expanding AI use with a voice assistant in employee headsets, helping with meal prep, inventory, and analyzing how staff interact with customers.

Burger King. The AI will monitor friendliness.

80% lower costs: The Israeli innovation shaking up the cultured food market

An Israeli startup revealed a hydrogel-based platform that cuts cultured food production costs and could speed the shift to sustainable alternatives to animal-based products.

Cultured meat.

Leket Israel CEO: Food rescue is national infrastructure, not charity

At the JPost Miami Conference, Gidi Kroch details how Leket rescues food, supports farmers, and strengthens Israel after Oct. 7

Gidi Kroch ,CEO Leket Israel

Food rescue is not welfare - it’s national infrastructure

Like any critical infrastructure, it should be sustained not by charity, but by governments and businesses that understand its value to national wellbeing.

One of Leket Israel’s Logistics Centers: An economic endeavor

The food Israel wastes each year could feed a country, so why doesn’t it?

Leket Israel CEO Gidi Kroch addresses the rising cost of food waste, his solution, and the community that emerged around it. “We provide an economic solution to food loss”

One of Leket Israel’s Logistics Centers: An economic endeavor

Urgent recall: Sterling smoked salmon found to have listeria contamination

The contamination has impacted only smoked salmon in the 100 gram package with the barcode 7290008340618, which was manufactured on 10/23/25. 

"Sterling" smoked salmon

The secret in the can: What turns a can of tuna into a gourmet delight

We met the man who knows every tuna fillet personally: StarKist’s food technologist took us behind the scenes and revealed the secrets that separate regular tuna from 100% premium quality.

 Avocado sandwich with tuna and hard-boiled egg

Israfood 39 Exhibition kicks off, showcasing food industry innovations

Organized by the Stier Group, Israfood 39 will take place from November 26-28 at Expo Tel Aviv, featuring Israfood, Hotex, Kitex, Food Pack, and Bake & Cake exhibitions.

 Food exhibition by Stier Group

Leket Israel bolsters the local economy by supporting tour guides and farmers


Popular product recall: Fault in production, do not consume

Beit Hashita warns against consuming canned olive cocktail products due to potential presence of olive pits from a production error. Contact company for credit voucher.

  Recall Olive Harozit, Beit Hashita