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The Kibbutz Privatization Wave: How Debt Rebuilt a $13B SectorLead story
Israeli Real Economy · Jul 19, 2026, 8:13 AM EDT

The Kibbutz Privatization Wave: How Debt Rebuilt a $13B Sector

Israeli 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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Israeli Diamonds: Ramat Gan to Antwerp
Israeli Real Economy · May 31, 2026, 12:56 AM EDT
Israeli Diamonds: Ramat Gan to Antwerp

Israel built the world's largest diamond bourse complex — then watched the cutting industry migrate to India. What remained: the finance layer, the fa…

ICL Group: The Dead Sea Chemicals Position
Israeli Real Economy · May 26, 2026, 5:30 AM EDT
ICL Group: The Dead Sea Chemicals Position

ICL Group holds the exclusive concession to mine the Dead Sea — the most concentrated mineral resource on Earth — and its position is geological rathe…