Israel Real Economy · 350 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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Amdocs early investor and chairman. SpaceIL/Beresheet primary funder — Israel's first lunar mission. South African-born Israeli technology investor an…
Tipalti — Chen Amit's Israeli-founded global payables platform for mid-market. Foster City HQ, Tel Aviv R&D. $8.3B valuation. 5,000 customers includin…
RAD Group co-founder Zohar Zisapel (1949–2023) built 17 companies from one Tel Aviv lab. He is considered the father of Israeli networking.
Founder of DST Global. Early investor in Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Airbnb, Alibaba. $8.7B Forbes 2026, #4 in Israel. Breakthrough Prize co-founder.
Merkava — Israel's indigenous main battle tank. In service since 1979 (Mk 1) to fifth-gen Barak (Sept 2023). Front-engine crew-first design by Israel…
Five hospitals. ~6,700 above-ground beds. ~3,000 fortified underground. ~5 million patients a year. The world's #7 hospital. The world's largest under…
110,000 residents, 6% annual growth. Afi Capital's 133-unit Compound 700 and Rotshtein Heights delivering in Dalet-3. Dalet-4 Haredi build clears at p…
Founded 1990 for 5,000. Today: 80,000. Afi Capital + Michman just deployed 13 dunam for 438 units and ₪1.3B. Gadish selected for 8,833-unit Beitar-Efr…
300+ wineries. 40 million bottles. $504M market. Exports doubled to $57.3M. Yarden scores 97 at Decanter 2025. Carmel, Barkan, Golan Heights control 6…
