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- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:14 AM EDTNextSilicon: Israel's $1.6B Nvidia Alternative
NextSilicon — Tel Aviv chip startup by Elad Raz. $300M+ raised at $1.6B valuation. Maverick-2 Intelligent Compute Accelerator deployed at Sandia National Labs via Vanguard-2. Arbel…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:12 AM EDTRoute 6: Israel's Only Toll Road
Route 6 — Israel's only toll road. 170 km north-south. Derech Eretz concession. Opened 2002. Reshaped commuting and real estate.
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:11 AM EDTIsrael Bonds at 75: $55 Billion from the Diaspora
Development Corporation for Israel, founded 1951. More than $55 billion channelled to the Israeli treasury across 75 years. Post-October 7 sales roughly doubled the historical run…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:11 AM EDTOri Goshen & Yoav Shoham: AI21's Co-Founders
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 $1.4B. Jamba, Jurassic langua…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:10 AM EDTIAI in Morocco: $1 Billion Barak MX, the Benslimane Weapons Plant, and What Comes Next
IAI has built the deepest Israeli-prime relationship in Morocco: $1B Barak MX, Ofek 13 satellite (first ever exported to Rabat), the Benslimane BlueBird SpyX plant, ELM-2084 radars…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:08 AM EDTHadassah: Israel's First Everything
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 marrow transplant (1977), IVF (198…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:06 AM EDTMorocco's $1.5B Defense Corridor: Barak MX, Spike ATGM, SpyX Loitering Munitions
Morocco spent an estimated $1.5 billion on Israeli defense since December 2020. This makes it the largest defense flow of the Abraham Accords, with primes like Elbit and IAI.
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:06 AM EDTRambam Health Care Campus: Haifa's Level-1 Trauma Center and the World's Largest Underground Hospital
Rambam Health Care Campus, Northern Israel's only Level-1 trauma center, activated its 2,000-bed underground hospital. It serves as a fortified medical facility.
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:06 AM EDTMicha Kaufman: The Fiverr Co-Founder Who Built the Global Freelance Marketplace From Tel Aviv
Fiverr co-founder/CEO (NYSE: FVRR). Built the freelance services marketplace from Tel Aviv. Co-founded with Shai Wininger (also Lemonade). 16-year single-company CEO. $350M+ annual…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:05 AM EDTMorris Kahn: The Amdocs Investor and SpaceIL Funder Who Tried to Land Israel on the Moon
Amdocs early investor and chairman. SpaceIL/Beresheet primary funder — Israel's first lunar mission. South African-born Israeli technology investor and philanthropist. Over $40M co…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:05 AM EDTDmitry Bukhman: The Bootstrapped Playrix Billionaire
Co-founder of Playrix, the largest mobile-gaming company in Europe. $13.6B Forbes 2026. Built $2.6B in annual revenue without a single round of institutional capital.
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:05 AM EDTSoroka University Medical Center: The Beersheba Level-1 Trauma Center That Received 676 Casualties on October 7
Beersheba. Only Level-1 trauma center in southern Israel. ~1,200 beds. Founded 1959. 200,000+ ER visits/year — busiest in Israel. October 7, 2023: 676 wounded received. June 19, 20…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:04 AM EDTUdi Mokady & Alon Cohen: CyberArk's Co-Founders
Udi Mokady and Alon N. Cohen co-founded CyberArk in 1999, took it public in 2014, and built a pillar of Israeli cyber. In May 2025 Palo Alto Networks agreed to acquire CyberArk for…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:02 AM EDTZohar Zisapel: The RAD Group Co-Founder Who Built 17 Companies and Fathered Israeli Networking
RAD Group co-founder Zohar Zisapel (1949–2023) built 17 companies from one Tel Aviv lab. He is considered the father of Israeli networking.
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:02 AM EDTThe Barak Family: IAI's Air-Defense Franchise, the DRDO Joint Development, and the Barak MX Export Book
Barak — IAI's air defense franchise. Joint IAI-DRDO development since 2007. $3B+ Indian orders. Held largest Israeli defense export record until Germany's Arrow 3. Barak MX exports…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:01 AM EDTYuri Milner: DST Global Founder, Breakthrough Prize
Founder of DST Global. Early investor in Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, Airbnb, Alibaba. $8.7B Forbes 2026, #4 in Israel. Breakthrough Prize co-founder.
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:01 AM EDTThe Merkava: Israel's Indigenous Main Battle Tank, From Israel Tal to the Fifth-Generation Barak
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 Tal. Trophy APS. Iron Vision 3…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:01 AM EDTThe Reuben Brothers: The Iraqi-Jewish Billionaires Who Became London's Most Powerful Private Financiers
Iraqi-Jewish brothers. Born Bombay, raised London. £27.9B, UK's second-richest family (Sunday Times 2026). Trans-World aluminium, GlobalSwitch data centers, prime London RE, Newcas…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:01 AM EDTThe Israeli Hospital Innovation Engine: How Five Academic Medical Centers Became the Global Reference Case for Wartime Healthcare and Clinical AI
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 underground hospital. The largest s…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:00 AM EDTRamat Bet Shemesh D-3 & D-4: The 110,000-Person City On Track to Double
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 pre-construction. TheMarker cal…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 8:00 AM EDTOne Zero Ranks #7 in Olam Israeli Banks Citation Share Index 2026
One Zero ranks #7 in the Olam Israeli Banks Citation Share Index 2026. Israel's first fully digital bank — Amnon Shashua founder-narrative + regulatory novelty = citation above sca…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 7:59 AM EDTWho Owns Israeli Food? The Foreign-Ownership Map of Israel's Grocery Aisle
Nestlé owns Bamba. Shanghai owns Tnuva. PepsiCo owns SodaStream. The definitive ownership map of Israel's grocery aisle — Hebrew and English.
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 7:59 AM EDTGil Dezer: The Israeli-American Developer Who Built Sunny Isles Beach's Luxury Skyline
President/CEO Dezer Development. 27 oceanfront acres in Sunny Isles Beach. Porsche Design Tower, Armani/Casa, Bentley Residences, six Trump towers. Patented the Dezervator. One of…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 7:58 AM EDTBeitar Illit: The 80,000-Person City Doubling Itself — Afi Capital's ₪1.3B Bet, Gadish's 8,833 Units, and the 900-Dunam Expansion
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-Efrat build. Housing Ministry adv…
- Israeli Real Economy · Aug 13, 2026, 7:58 AM EDTThe Israeli Wine Industry: 300 Wineries, Five Regions, and the Golan Heights Revolution
300+ wineries. 40 million bottles. $504M market. Exports doubled to $57.3M. Yarden scores 97 at Decanter 2025. Carmel, Barkan, Golan Heights control 65-70%. The 1983 revolution, th…
























