Founders & Companies · Jul 16, 2026
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…
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The Ronn Torossian Archive: 23 Years From 5W to AI Communications
A note from Olam's publisher. The Torossian Communications Archive — sixteen years of indexed publishing consolidated at ronntorossian.com — and why founder-archive architecture matters for Israeli business operators in…
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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Uri Levine: Waze and Moovit's BuilderTwo billion-dollar consumer exits: Waze ($1.15B to Google, 2013) and Moovit ($900M to Intel, 2020). The only Israeli "duocorn." Unit 8200. TAU. The Fo…
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AHAVA: The Only Company Mining the Dead SeaAHAVA Dead Sea Laboratories: founded 1988, sole cosmetics company licensed to mine Dead Sea minerals. Acquired by China's Fosun International in 2016…
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Dankner Ran Israel's Biggest Empire Into PrisonRan IDB Holdings — Israel's largest holding company. Lost it to Elsztain and Ben-Moshe in 2013. Served 16 months for securities fraud. Now running a f…
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Shlomo Yanai: The IDF Major General Who Ran Teva at Its PeakIDF Major General, commander Gaza Division and Southern Command, lead of the IDF Camp David 2000 delegation. CEO of Makhteshim Agan 2003–2007. CEO of…