Delek Real Estate is showing signs of recovery, and Israel Discount Bank has been enlisted to help them survive by extending loans totaling several hundred million shekels.
Discount is thus joining parent company Delek Group and the Phoenix insurance group, both of which belong to Yitzhak Tshuva, in lending Delek Real Estate money to cover its billions of shekels in debts to bondholders, banks and other creditors.
In June Delek Real Estate reached a five-year debt arrangement (covering both new and old loans) with Discount. The bank, headed by CEO Giora Offer, agreed to allow Delek Real Estate to pay only interest during the first two years, and to start paying off the principal in the third year.
