Coverage · 20 stories · Updated Aug 14, 2026
Lead storyLior Halabi and Ayal Stern built Israel Tech Week Miami, which drew 1,500+ attendees and 150 speakers in 2025 and ran in 2026 during the war. The deal-flow event behind the Florida-Israel corridor.
Read →The Florida-Israel section tracks the Israeli-founded companies, developers, institutions and communities building a second American home for Israeli business in Florida. Israeli-founded companies generate $7.3 billion in the state's economy across 429 companies and 26,510 jobs, per the United States-Israel Business Alliance Florida-Israel Economic Impact Report. Start with the anchor piece, then follow the sector, community and company pages below.
Start here: Florida Is Israel's New American Address
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Florida-Israel Tech: 429 Companies | Sector map of the 429 companies, from cybersecurity to agtech |
| Florida-Israel Cybersecurity | 14 Israeli firms on the Rising in Cyber 2026 list and the FIBA pipeline |
| Florida-Israel Defense Tech | XTEND drones and StemRad radiation vests from Tampa |
| FAU, FIU and the University Pipeline | FAU's $8.2M in Israel Bonds and FIU's $5M joint research grant |
| Tel Aviv to Miami Nonstop Route | El Al's four weekly nonstop flights and Fort Lauderdale service |
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Aventura Profile | Hebrew spoken in 3.66% of households in a city of about 40,000 |
| Where Israelis Live in South Florida | Surfside, Aventura and Boca Raton compared by community and price |
| Jewish Institutional Build | Miami-Dade Jewish population up 7% to 130,100 and day schools nearly doubled to 74 |
| Jewish Day School Boom | A 15% enrollment increase, the largest in the country |
| South Florida Jewish Wealth Corridor | Tri-county Jewish population and post-2020 financial relocation |
| Israeli Food Culture in South Florida | Pita Hut, Motek and HaSalon |
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Israeli Developers Building South Florida | Dezer Development, Neumann's Flow and Shvo across South Florida |
| Michael Dezer | The Tel Aviv bus driver's son who built Sunny Isles Beach |
| Gil Dezer | Porsche Design Tower, Armani/Casa and Bentley Residences |
| Michael Shvo | The developer behind an $8 billion luxury portfolio, and his Miami losses |
| BH Group | Isaac Toledano and an $11 billion South Florida pipeline |
| Flow's $200 Million Florida Bet | Adam Neumann's 50% stake in the 318-unit Society Wynwood |
| Lendai | A cross-border mortgage platform that rose and fell in Miami |
| Electra Real Estate | A 75% stock crash and a Florida tour for analysts |
| Page | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Momentis Surgical | Israeli robotic surgery operating from Fort Lauderdale |
| Navina | An AI physician copilot expanding into Florida's value-based care market |
| ECOncrete | Bio-enhancing marine concrete for seawalls |
| Israel Tech Week Miami | The conference built by Lior Halabi and Ayal Stern |
| GoForIsrael Conference | A December 14, 2026 investor conference at the Fontainebleau |
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Lior Halabi and Ayal Stern built Israel Tech Week Miami, which drew 1,500+ attendees and 150 speakers in 2025 and ran in 2026 during the war. The deal…
Israel Tech Week Miami drew 1,500+ attendees and 150 speakers in 2025, then ran during an active war in 2026 as one of the only major Israeli tech pla…
Micky Arison, born in Tel Aviv, chairs Carnival Corporation, the world's largest cruise operator his father founded, and owns the Miami Heat, three-ti…
GoForIsrael holds its first U.S. conference on December 14, 2026, at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hotel, pairing roughly 50 Israeli companies with 300-…
Surfside runs $1M-$20M for the Sephardic community. Aventura runs $600K-$4M for a mixed Israeli and Ashkenazi community. Boca Raton runs $800K-$3M for…
Israeli-founded companies generate $7.3 billion in Florida's economy across 429 companies and 26,510 jobs. The sectors, neighborhoods and institutions…
South Florida has become a Jewish wealth corridor since 2020. Citadel's move to Miami exemplifies a broader financial-sector relocation.
Florida posted the largest Jewish day school enrollment increase in the country at 15%. Vouchers, post-October 7 demand, and one school funding tuitio…
Isaac Toledano immigrated from Israel in 2000. BH Group now has $11B in South Florida pipeline — Six Fisher Island, Ritz-Carlton WPB, partnerships wit…
