Israel Real Economy · 349 stories · Updated Aug 14, 2026
Lead storyIsraeli hyperinflation peaked at ~450% in 1984. The kibbutz movement entered the late 1980s technically insolvent. The Kibbutz Arrangement, differential wages, and outside capital rebuilt the sector. Every subsequent kib…
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IDE Technologies built the world's lowest-unit-cost large-scale desalination plant at Sorek. Sorek-2 extends the curve.…
Israel's 2024 regulatory approval for Aleph Farms' cultivated beef was a landmark for the category globally. Whether com…
Enlight Renewable Energy is the largest Israeli pure-play renewables developer and the cleanest read on how Israeli deve…
Netafim is the largest single Israeli agritech export by revenue and the institutional anchor of the global drip-irrigat…
IDE Technologies and the network of Israeli seawater reverse-osmosis plants are the working example of climate-adaptatio…
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Seventy-seven years of kibbutz ownership. A $76 million specialty-ingredients business selling into 40+ countries. A full exit — zero retained stake —…
Israel's three largest defense companies operate across 15+ US states. Elbit in Fort Worth (11 facilities), Rafael Iron Dome in Arkansas, IAI in Hernd…
Plasson manufactures plastic pipe fittings and livestock equipment globally — 2,600 employees, operations in 100+ countries. The kibbutz that built it…
Granot is the largest regional industrial-services cooperative in the kibbutz movement — 43 kibbutzim and moshavim, 20 factories, ~$800M aggregated tu…
Silal (ADQ subsidiary) runs the farmer-facing program. IHC ($232B, Sheikh Tahnoon-chaired) runs the scale layer. Together they are the actual buyers o…
Palram became Israel's most valuable kibbutz company in 2024 — NIS 2.2B market cap, up 132%. Kibbutz Ramat Yohanan holds 65%, worth ~NIS 1.4B. The sin…
Fifteen professors repeatedly signed anti-Israel petitions across multiple campaigns. Eight of them hold endowed chairs.
Israir is Israel's second-largest airline, controlled by Rami Levy's BGI consortium since 2021. Arkia, Israel's oldest airline, is controlled by the N…
Sir Michael Kadoorie chairs CLP Holdings, Hong Kong's largest electricity producer, and owns nearly half of the Peninsula Hotels group. His Baghdadi J…
