Plus500 Ltd. is a holding company, which engages in the development and operation of online trading platform. It provides contracts for difference to retail customers to trade in underlying financial instruments such as equities, exchange traded funds, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities. The company was founded by Omer Elazari, Alon Gonen, Gal Haber, Elad Ben Izhak, Shimon Sofer, and Shlomi Weizmann on May 26, 2008 and is headquartered in Haifa, Israel.