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- Jul 17, 2026, 2:15 AM EDTCognyte Software
Israeli-headquartered cyber-intelligence and investigative-analytics company listed on Nasdaq as CGNT, spun off from Verint Systems in February 2021.
- Founders & Companies · Jul 17, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTAvraham Livnat: Hadera Paper and Granite Hacarmel
Avraham Livnat: Israeli industrialist whose family controlled Hadera Paper and Granite Hacarmel across decades. Canonical figure in the under-covered Israeli industrial layer.
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 17, 2026, 12:16 AM EDTJerusalem Gateway (Merhav): The Twenty-Tower District, Tower by Tower
Deep spec sheets on Marom Tower, the JTLV / BSR / Yehuda Rahamim consortium, the Judicial Building, IBA studios, Binyanei HaUma expansion, Yitzhak Navon terminal, Central Bus Stati…
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jul 16, 2026, 10:56 AM EDTIsrael's New Travel App for a World That Got More Dangerous
Israel's Foreign Ministry has shipped TravIL — a 187-country consumer app built for a world that got materially more hostile to Israeli travelers after October 7. Offline-capable.…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 16, 2026, 8:13 AM EDTGranot: The $800M Industrial Back Office of the Kibbutz Sector
Granot is the largest regional industrial-services cooperative in the kibbutz movement — 43 kibbutzim and moshavim, 20 factories, ~$800M aggregated turnover. The shared institution…
- Strategic Technology Trade · Jul 16, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTThe Israel–Canada Mining Corridor
Canadian capital lists half the world's mining companies. Israeli technology, from predictive maintenance to cyber, runs underneath the modern mine.
- Israeli Legal Industry · Jul 15, 2026, 10:49 AM EDTWhen Your Crypto Wallet Gets Frozen: A Legal Guide to Appealing Freezes
Adv. Sagiv Rotenberg details how crypto asset freezes work across exchanges and legal actions. He outlines the coordinated legal appeal process for frozen digital assets.
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 15, 2026, 8:15 AM EDTIsraeli Investors in Claude: Clal and Migdal Bet $225M on Anthropic
Clal and Migdal have committed more than $225 million to Anthropic, the maker of Claude, across two funding rounds. Migdal's original position is already up roughly $150 million on…
- Jul 15, 2026, 4:14 AM EDTOfer Yanai: Nofar Energy and Hapoel Tel Aviv
Ofer Yanai (b. 1975) built Nofar Energy into one of Israel's largest renewable-energy developers and reinvested into a controlling stake in Hapoel Tel Aviv Basketball Club. Persona…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 15, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTThe Wilf Family: Vikings Owners, Real Estate, and Jewish Philanthropy
Zygi and Mark Wilf own the Minnesota Vikings and quietly direct one of the most consequential Jewish philanthropic operations in the diaspora — 60 years of business, 50 years of fo…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 15, 2026, 2:45 AM EDTStarkWare
StarkWare is the Israeli cryptography company behind STARK zero-knowledge proofs, Starknet, and StarkEx — the $8B protocol-layer infrastructure scaling Ethereum.
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 15, 2026, 2:15 AM EDTCato Networks
Israeli-founded SASE and AI-security leader. Founded 2015 by Shlomo Kramer and Gur Shatz. 2025 ARR above $350M at 43% YoY growth; $4.8B valuation on a $409M Series G; over 4,000 en…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 15, 2026, 12:16 AM EDTJerusalem Real Estate Developers: Projects, Sites, and Major Players
Azrieli, Africa Israel, Shikun & Binui, and Electra are key developers shaping Jerusalem. Named projects and buildings for sale define the Merhav district.
- Energy Corridors · Jul 14, 2026, 5:00 AM EDTHouston: The Energy-Sector Jewish Community
The largest Jewish community in the American Southwest. Energy, healthcare, aerospace. Four migration waves. The South African overlay onto the Texas energy sector. Most under-cove…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 14, 2026, 4:00 AM EDTPresight: The Only Public Piece of the G42 Empire
Listed on the ADX in March 2023. Big-data analytics. The only tradable proxy on the entire Abu Dhabi AI thesis — and nobody in New York is running the trade.
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 14, 2026, 2:15 AM EDTSnyk
Developer-first cybersecurity company building a platform for finding and fixing vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies, containers, infrastructure-as-code, and source code.
- Founders & Companies · Jul 14, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTYossi Vardi: The Patriarch of Israeli Internet
Yossi Vardi co-founded ICQ in 1996, sold it to AOL in 1998 for ~$407M, then made 90+ angel investments across two decades of Israeli technology. Chairman of DLD Tel Aviv. The patri…
- Israeli AI Companies & Infrastructure · Jul 14, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTToronto: The Israeli Growth Corridor
Patient Canadian pension capital. Vector Institute and one of the deepest applied-AI research bases in the world. The Big Five Canadian banks. A 190,000-person Jewish community. To…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 13, 2026, 7:39 AM EDTPoalim Junior: Inside Bank Hapoalim's New Banking Product for Kids
Bank Hapoalim launched Poalim Junior for children aged 8+. It offers a prepaid card, parental controls, and a 4% deposit rate.
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 13, 2026, 6:14 AM EDTThe Shekel Is the New Layoff: The Hidden Force Driving Israeli Tech Job Cuts
Wix cut 1,000 people. The Bank of Israel spent nearly $2 billion in two months trying to slow the shekel. A former central bank supervisor warned Israeli tech could shrink 25–30% w…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 13, 2026, 6:12 AM EDTThe Shekel Just Broke Israel's Startup Nation Model
Israeli engineers now cost more than Americans. Bank of Israel spent $2B in eight weeks slowing the shekel. A former Supervisor of Banks warned Israeli tech could shrink 25–30% in…
- Family Offices · Jul 13, 2026, 5:54 AM EDTIsrael's Family Offices Convene in Tel Aviv, October 21
Israel's UHNW community meets October 21 for the 17th Tel Aviv Annual Family Office Conference. UBS puts average Israeli personal wealth at $312,108 per adult; Henley counts 22,600…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jul 13, 2026, 2:15 AM EDTMumtalakat (Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company)
Bahrain's Mumtalakat, established 2006, manages ~$18B AUM. Chaired by Sheikh Salman bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, its portfolio includes Alba, Gulf Air, and a majority stake in McLaren G…
- Founders & Companies · Jul 13, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTAdi Soffer Teeni
Adi Soffer Teeni runs Meta Israel — the largest non-US Meta presence, one of the most consequential global-platform leadership posts ever held by an Israeli operator. VP & GM since…
- Fintech & Public Markets · Jul 13, 2026, 1:30 AM EDTWhy Israeli Startups Use Singapore as Their Gateway to Asia
Common law in English, a fintech-forward regulator, a real tax treaty, diplomatic neutrality, and direct-flight coverage of the region — Singapore is the only city in Asia that com…

























