The canonical reference layer for Israeli founders, executives, and companies covered across all clusters.
Lead storyArnon Milchan founded New Regency Productions and produced more than 130 Hollywood films, including a Best Picture Oscar winner. He also worked for Israeli intelligence for decades — a fact he disclosed in 2013.
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).
This cluster is the canonical reference layer. Each named person and company gets a structured entity page: identity, background, role, capital history, related entities, sources.
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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…
Joseph Hackmey ran Israel Phoenix Assurance as CEO from ~1975 and chairman from 1991, sold the family's 56.8% controlling stake to the Mayer Group in…
Yossi Vardi co-founded ICQ in 1996, sold it to AOL in 1998 for ~$407M, then made 90+ angel investments across two decades of Israeli technology. Chair…
Early Check Point engineer, then founded OneSecure — sold through NetScreen to Juniper for $4B — and in 2005 founded Palo Alto Networks. World's large…
Sauce, the Israeli-founded delivery platform run out of Tel Aviv and Miami, is selling U.S. restaurants a way out of the 30% commission trap — and qui…
Owner and president of Watergen, the Israeli climate-tech company producing drinking water from air across 100+ countries. Vice President of the World…
Taboola (Nasdaq: TBLA) — Adam Singolda's Tel Aviv-founded content-recommendation network, the largest Israeli-founded business in digital publishing i…
Two companies founded a year apart in Tel Aviv that control most of the 'You may also like' modules at the bottom of news articles globally. The duopo…
Wix.com (Nasdaq: WIX) — the Tel Aviv website-building platform with 250M+ users across 190 countries, and the foundational Israeli consumer technology…
