Investing.com – Israel stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Biomed, Banking and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.

At the close in Tel Aviv, the rose 0.09%.

The best performers of the session on the TA 35 were Tower Semiconductor Ltd (), which rose 4.15% or 3,500.00 points to trade at 87,770.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Mega Or () added 3.49% or 1,940.00 points to end at 57,540.00 and NICE Ltd () was up 3.17% or 780.00 points to 25,400.00 in late trade.

The worst performers of the session were Next Vision Stabilized Systems (), which fell 5.28% or 1,420.00 points to trade at 25,480.00 at the close. Dimri () declined 2.80% or 980.00 points to end at 34,010.00 and Enlight Renewable Energy Ltd () was down 2.58% or 660.00 points to 24,960.00.

Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the by 325 to 144 and 88 ended unchanged.

Shares in Tower Semiconductor Ltd (TASE:TSEM) rose to 5-year highs; gaining 4.15% or 3,500.00 to 87,770.00.

was down 2.57% or 1.95 to $73.90 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, for delivery in September fell 3.05% or 2.44 to hit $77.61 a barrel, while the August Futures contract fell 0.70% or 29.65 to trade at $4,216.25 a troy ounce.

USD/ILS was up 0.51% to 2.97, while EUR/ILS rose 0.33% to 3.40.

The Futures was up 0.02% at 100.64.