Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
Dudi Weissman: The Alon Group FounderDudi Weissman built the Alon Group into one of the central Israeli fuel-retail and convenience-retail platforms of the 2000s — Blue Square, AM:PM, 7-E…
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Shufersal: Israel's Largest Supermarket
Shufersal (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.
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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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Founders & Companies · Jun 27, 2026, 1:16 PM EDT
Shlomo Yanai: The IDF Major General Who Ran Teva at Its PeakIDF Major General Shlomo Yanai led Teva Pharmaceuticals from 2007–2012. He oversaw major acquisitions including Barr for $7.46B and Cephalon for $6.8B…
Founders & Companies · Jul 12, 2026, 4:14 AM EDT
The Yanai Family: Nofar Energy and BeyondThe Yanai family, with two Tel Aviv-listed companies, holds a ₪2 billion personal fortune. This wealth traces back to a single household in Yavne.
Founders & Companies · Jun 15, 2026, 7:16 PM EDT
Eliezer Fishman: The Five-Billion-Shekel CollapseEliezer Fishman, who built a vast Israeli business empire, declared five-billion-shekel personal bankruptcy in 2017 after significant financial losses…
Founders & Companies · Jul 17, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
Avraham Livnat: Hadera Paper and Granite HacarmelAvraham Livnat: Israeli industrialist whose family controlled Hadera Paper and Granite Hacarmel across decades. Canonical figure in the under-covered…
Founders & Companies · Jul 3, 2026, 5:10 AM EDT
Assaf Rappaport: Wiz Co-Founder Behind Israel's Largest Exit EverAssaf Rappaport co-founded Wiz, sold to Google for $32 billion in 2026. This was the largest Israeli tech exit ever, after Rappaport rejected a $23 bi…
Founders & Companies · Jul 16, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT
Boaz Dotan: Amdocs Co-FounderBoaz Dotan co-founded Amdocs in 1982 with Morris Kahn and Avi Naor, built the Israeli carrier-software era, and helped establish the model every subse…
Founders & Companies · Jun 29, 2026, 2:13 AM EDT
Amnon Shashua: Mobileye Co-Founder, Hebrew University Sachs ChairAmnon Shashua turned Israeli academic computer vision into global industrial infrastructure — Mobileye, OrCam, AI21 Labs, Mentee Robotics, all from Je…
Founders & Companies · Jun 28, 2026, 8:05 PM EDT
Shlomo Kramer: The Three-Unicorn Cyber FounderShlomo Kramer co-founded Check Point (1993), Imperva (2002), and Cato Networks (2015). Three Israeli cyber unicorns across three decades. The serial c…