Culture, Lifestyle & Reach · 83 stories · Updated Aug 14, 2026
Lead storyMoon Active, founded by Samuel Albin in Tel Aviv in 2011, built Coin Master into one of the highest-grossing mobile games ever — over $6 billion in lifetime revenue — while staying private through a $5 billion 2021 fundi…
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Maccabi Tel Aviv and now Hapoel Tel Aviv compete in European basketball's top tier. Their continued participation throug…
Global streamers have replaced format licensing as the largest revenue source for Israeli scripted production. The depen…
Keshet International has built the most successful television format-licensing business out of any small-country broadca…
Homeland, In Treatment, Fauda, Euphoria. The Israeli television format and adaptation business is now an established ind…
Josh Harris's Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment is the most consequential Jewish sports-ownership platform in the US…
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Keshet, Reshet, Channel 14, Yedioth, Israel Hayom and Haaretz: the families who own what Israelis watch and read, and how power shifted right. Updated…
Keshet 12 is private, Reshet 13 goes to the Merit Spread Foundation, Channel 14 is Mirilashvili's, plus Adelson, Mozes, Schocken and Drahi in print. W…
Yaacov Agam, the Israeli sculptor and painter recognized around the world as the father of kinetic art, died Sunday in Paris at 98. The kabbalist's so…
Inside the two distinct mechanisms of the Israeli creative-IP economy — format licensing (Hatufim → Homeland) versus Israeli originals distributed int…
The Israeli television format and adaptation business is an established industrial category. Homeland, In Treatment, Fauda, and Euphoria are major exp…
Anthropic's own Economic Index ranks Israel #1 globally for per-capita Claude usage at 4.9x — 17% ahead of Singapore, 33% ahead of the United States,…
Static and Ben El Tavori were Israel's biggest pop duo from 2015 to 2022. 300 million views on Tudo Bom. A Saban Music Group deal. A breakup amid Ben…
Mati Kochavi built AGT International into a $1B-revenue, 2,300-employee homeland-security platform. It was anchored by Abu Dhabi's ~$816M Falcon Eye c…
Shalom Meckenzie founded SBTech, became a billionaire in the DraftKings merger and now runs Amp. See his $1.6B Forbes net worth, stake history and car…
