Israeli Real Economy

Ori Goshen and Yoav Shoham co-founded AI21 Labs in 2017 with Amnon Shashua — the only Israeli-founded frontier-scale foundation-model lab. Series C at…

Elad Raz founded NextSilicon in 2017 to build reconfigurable-compute silicon — an architectural challenge to Nvidia. The Maverick processor is deploye…

Two Jerusalem campuses — Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus. 1918 origins via Henrietta Szold's AZMU. 1,300+ beds, ~1M patients/year. Israel's first bone marr…

Caesarstone defined the global engineered-quartz countertop category. Founded 1987 on Kibbutz Sdot Yam adjacent to ancient Caesarea, listed on NASDAQ…

Development Corporation for Israel, founded 1951. More than $55 billion channelled to the Israeli treasury across 75 years. Post-October 7 sales rough…

Peninat Yanai is Israel's Ambassador to Greece, approved unanimously by the Israeli government on 14 December 2025 under Decision 3631 for a three-yea…

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…

BGN Technologies — commercialization arm of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Beer-Sheva's answer to Yissum and Ramot. NeuroDerm's $1.1B Mitsubishi…

State Department jurisdiction over defense articles on the USML. The framework catching Iron Dome, Arrow 3, F-35 Adir — and why Elbit, IAI, and Rafael…