It is a public company whose shares are traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and is included in the TA-100 Index.

[2] In 1935, Ernst and Margot Hamburger, German Jews who moved to Tel Aviv at the time of the British Mandate of Palestine founded HaMishmar, a small insurance agency.

The same year, the company had an initial public offering on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

In 2008 Harel Group established the Israel Infrastructure Fund together with Yehuda Raveh and Yaron Kestenbaum, which invests in and manages infrastructure projects in the fields of water, energy and transportation (trains and roads).

[3] In December 2009 Harel acquired EMI, an Israeli mortgage unit of AIG – American International Group for $35.5m.