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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Long-form reference entries in Founders & Companies
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Arnon Milchan — Israeli billionaire, founder of New Regency Productions, 130+ Hollywood films including two Best Picture winners, former LAKAM intelli…
Yair Nechmad co-founded Nayax in 2005 and has run it continuously as CEO through the two-decade build to a global unattended-retail payments platform…
Rafi Amit co-founded Camtek in 1987 and continues as CEO nearly four decades later — architect of the pivot from PCB inspection into semiconductor adv…
Castro (TASE: CAST): Israel's oldest fashion house, founded 1950. FY2025 revenue NIS 2.12B, net income down 59%. 170 stores in 7 countries. Rotter and…
Who owns Israel's public companies — the four capital pools that control the TASE. Big Five insurers (Migdal, Harel, Phoenix, Clal, Menora), investmen…
Sutskever, Shashua, Shoham, Goshen, Gross, and Matias define Israel's AI founder landscape. Their diverse reputations impact company valuation.
Inherited Ofer Investments from Yuli Ofer. Took Melisron from regional player to one of the two largest real estate companies in Israel. One of two fe…
888 Holdings (now Evoke plc, LSE: EVOK) was founded May 1997 by Israeli brothers Avi and Aaron Shaked and Shay and Ron Ben-Yitzhak as Virtual Holdings…
Wix.com is an Israeli company headquartered in Tel Aviv with no controlling owner. Institutions hold roughly 76% of the stock; CEO Avishai Abrahami ho…
