
Born Tel Aviv 1941. IAF veteran. Son of a bus driver. Owns 27 oceanfront acres in Sunny Isles Beach. Built the Dezer empire across New York and Florid…
Israel Real Economy · 221 stories · Updated Aug 14, 2026
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Born Tel Aviv 1941. IAF veteran. Son of a bus driver. Owns 27 oceanfront acres in Sunny Isles Beach. Built the Dezer empire across New York and Florid…

Clal and Migdal have committed more than $225 million to Anthropic, the maker of Claude, across two funding rounds. Migdal's original position is alre…
Fifteen professors repeatedly signed anti-Israel petitions across multiple campaigns. Eight of them hold endowed chairs.

Melisron, the Ofer Family's mall empire, operates 26 assets with 814K sqm. Ramat Aviv Mall and Grand Kanyon Haifa are key properties.

BIG, Yehuda Naftali's open-air empire, spans 62 projects across Israel, the US, and Eastern Europe. Its market cap is approximately NIS 18.7 billion.

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…

Rafael, IAI, and Elbit Systems generated $16.8 billion in FY2025 exports and hold a combined $71 billion-plus order backlog. Here is how Israel's thre…

Hezi Bezalel went from a Nairobi investment bank to Rwanda's honorary consul in Israel, building four decades of quiet influence across East Africa.

Jacob Engel built a real estate fortune across Eastern Europe, then pivoted into African mining and frontier-tech venture capital through the Atooro F…