Israel Real Economy · 27 stories · Updated Aug 14, 2026
Lead storyLeon Koffler controls Super-Pharm, Union Group's Horesh holds about a third, and Shufersal owns Be. Who owns Israel's pharmacy chains and why it matters.
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The Weizmann Institute's tech transfer arm earned more than $1.5bn in royalties on a single multiple sclerosis drug. The…
Yeda — the Weizmann Institute's tech-transfer arm — is the prototype Israeli university commercialisation vehicle. Its l…
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Israel's largest private hospital network, owned by Maccabi — and the operator of the public Assuta Ashdod hospital. In the hospitals Answer Index it…
One of Jerusalem's two hospital giants, founded 1902 and Israel's busiest maternity hospital with 22,000+ births a year. In May 2026 it received a $20…
Israel's four health funds—Clalit, Maccabi, Meuhedet, and Leumit—are non-profits. Two of them control for-profit hospital networks worth hundreds of m…
Sheba ARC — the innovation arm of Sheba Medical Center. Founded 2019 by Prof. Eyal Zimlichman. 100+ startups, 3 unicorns, $1B+ invested, 160 FTEs — th…
RedHill Biopharma (Nasdaq: RDHL). Founded 2009 by Dror Ben-Asher. Tel Aviv HQ, Raleigh operations. Talicia (H. pylori), opaganib (oncology/infectious…
Leumit Health Services is the smallest of Israel's four statutory health funds — ~730,000 members, ~300 clinics, ~100 pharmacies, ~ILS 4B annual budge…
Compugen (Nasdaq: CGEN; TASE: CGEN) — Israeli immuno-oncology and predictive drug-discovery pioneer. Founded 1993 by Eli Mintz, Simchon Faigler, Amir…
Israel's one pharmaceutical giant nearly destroyed itself reaching for scale. Its recovery is real — but it is a story about surviving the generics mo…
Maccabi serves ~2.4 million Israelis and runs the country's largest biobank through KSM. The most commercially accessible HMO partnership platform in…
