Culture, Lifestyle & Reach · 84 stories · Updated Sep 11, 2026
The founders behind Israeli businesses, the executives running them and the ownership decisions that shape their companies.
Lead storyShufersal (TASE: SAE): founded 1958. Israel's largest supermarket chain. 316+ branches. 30-35% market share. Revenue NIS 15.6B. 15,500 employees. The Amir brothers took control in 2024.
Read →Israel runs a deep founder pipeline.
Per Tracxn data published April 2026, Israel has produced 42 unicorns. Per Israel Innovation Authority data reported by Times of Israel in early 2026, 39 active tech unicorns operate in the country. Tel Aviv accounts for 25 of them; Herzliya for 4; Jerusalem for 3.
The pipeline behind those numbers runs through identifiable institutions: Unit 8200, Talpiot, Unit 9900, Mossad cyber, Shin Bet technology, the Technion's computer science and information security programs, the Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University. The same names recur across Wiz, CyberArk, Check Point, Mobileye, AI21 Labs, Armis, and the next generation including Heven AeroTech, Wonderful, Oasis Security, and Line5.
Per the Technion CS faculty, faculty graduates lead the unicorn list — including Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), Oren Kaniel (AppsFlyer), Eilon Reshef (Gong), and Nadir Izrael and Yevgeny Dibrov (Armis).
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