Israel Real Economy · 15 stories · Updated Aug 14, 2026
Lead storyA country 60% desert that imports much of its food turned thirst and hunger into export industries. Water is solved and selling; food is funded and unproven. Tnuva is Shanghai-owned. Strauss has PepsiCo in Sabra. Netafim…
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A country 60% desert that imports much of its food turned thirst and hunger into export industries. Water is solved and selling; food is funded and un…
Netafim: founded 1965 at Kibbutz Hatzerim. Invented drip irrigation. Acquired by Mexico's Orbia in 2018 at $1.9B. 40-45% global market share, 110+ cou…
Tempo, founded in 1952, is Israel's largest brewer and PepsiCo's exclusive Israeli bottler. It produces over 65 million Goldstar bottles annually.
Founded 1849 in Moscow. Tsar's tea supplier. Largest tea firm in the Russian Empire. Survived revolution, Holocaust, rebuilt in Tel Aviv 1936. 76% of…
Strauss Group (TASE: STRS) is Israel's second-largest food company, still family-controlled after Sabra's full sale to PepsiCo in November 2024 left T…
Três Corações, Brazil dominance, the Strauss family arc, and the Eastern European operations that make Strauss Coffee a top-five global coffee company…
Israel's 2024 regulatory approval for Aleph Farms' cultivated beef was a landmark for the category globally. Whether commercial scale follows is the o…
Israel made the world's first cultivated-meat regulatory history — and watched its best-funded cultivated-meat company shut down. Both facts are the s…
Israel can't feed itself from its own land. That weakness, not idealism, is why it built a food-tech industry — and why the state treats it as strateg…
