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- Jun 25, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTRAFAEL'S LASER REWRITES AIR DEFENSE
Iron Beam is Rafael's 100-kilowatt high-energy laser air defense system. Delivered to the IDF in December 2025. The first operational laser layer in a national air defense stack. T…
- The Builders · Jun 25, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTEyal Waldman: Mellanox and the $6.9B Nvidia Exit
Eyal Waldman built Mellanox into the high-performance networking platform NVIDIA needed for the AI era — sold to NVIDIA in 2020 for $6.9B. Now NVIDIA's networking business and the…
- Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 25, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTThe Shlichim Economy and the Camp-to-Israel Pipeline
The complete post-October 7 Israel-camp pipeline: 3,140 Israeli shlichim staffed North American camps in 2024, up 11%, while outbound teen travel like RootOne fell 90%. How the inb…
- Fintech & Public Markets · Jun 25, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTNayax (Nasdaq: NYAX): Israel's Unattended-Retail Payments Platform
Nayax (Nasdaq: NYAX) — Herzliya payments-and-management platform for unattended retail. Q1 2026: $106.9M revenue (+32%), 1.5M+ connected devices across ~80 countries, 74% recurring…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 25, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTInside the TASE Bond Machine
BVI SPV structure, Midroog and Maalot ratings, Israeli trustees, the community-trust premium, currency hedging, and the post-2020 disclosure framework.
- Strategic Technology Trade · Jun 25, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTWhy Japan Keeps Investing in Israeli Deeptech
Japanese capital consistently invests in Israeli deeptech, unmatched by other Asian economies. This trend is driven by demographic factors, not diplomatic ones.
- Real Estate · Jun 25, 2026, 1:13 AM EDTJerusalem's Five Trophy Hotels: The King David, Waldorf Astoria, Mamilla, David Citadel, Orient
Five hotels in central Jerusalem represent the highest-yielding diplomatic, religious, and trophy hospitality cluster in the Middle East — and the most exposed to the recovery cycl…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 24, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTShaul Shani: The ECI Telecom Operator Who Built Sphera Funds
Shaul Shani ran ECI Telecom through the Israeli carrier-equipment era and built Sphera Funds Management into one of the more established Israeli-anchored hedge-fund and technology-…
- The Builders · Jun 24, 2026, 2:00 PM EDTHe Bought the NBL — Now He Owns It All
Soviet-born Australian-Jewish operator. Co-founded Dodo Services in 2001, sold to M2 Group in 2013 for A$204M. In 2015 acquired 51% of Australia's National Basketball League; now o…
- Crypto & Digital Assets · Jun 24, 2026, 1:09 PM EDTIsrael: The New Crypto Courtroom
Israel has become one of the most complex enforcement arenas for crypto fraud globally. The structural map: who investigates (Lahav 433, ISA, IMPA), what tools exist, how authoriti…
- Founders & Companies · Jun 24, 2026, 1:06 PM EDTBeauty's New Bar: 1,000 Creators
5W just released The 1,000-Creator Playbook for Beauty 2026. The new TikTok Shop math: 30,000 brands, 1,000-creator quarters, velocity-deck Sephora pitches. The reset for Oddity, S…
- Founders & Companies · Jun 24, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTDankner Ran Israel's Biggest Empire Into Prison
Ran IDB Holdings — Israel's largest holding company. Lost it to Elsztain and Ben-Moshe in 2013. Served 16 months for securities fraud. Now running a foodtech company at 71.
- Aliyah & Wealth Migration · Jun 24, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTPost-Soviet Israeli Oligarchs: Who's Sanctioned, Who Isn't
An estimated 15 to 25 post-Soviet Jewish billionaires hold Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return. Since 2022, Abramovich, Fridman, Aven, Khan, and Kantor have been sanctioned…
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jun 24, 2026, 8:25 AM EDTDECA: Israel's $14.8B Defense Export Machine
DECA, Israel's Defense Export Controls Agency, licensed a record $14.795 billion in 2024 weapons exports. How the agency works, why Washington pushed Israel to build it, and where…
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jun 24, 2026, 8:05 AM EDTSIBAT: The MOD's Weapons Salesman
SIBAT coordinates Israel's defense export marketing, government-to-government deals, and the annual export data releases. The MoD office behind the $14.8B 2024 number.
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jun 24, 2026, 7:55 AM EDTIsrael's Loitering Munitions Cohort
Israel invented the loitering munition category in the 1980s. Forty years later, the Israeli cohort — IAI Harop, UVision Hero, Elbit Skystriker — still leads the global category.
- Aliyah & Wealth Migration · Jun 24, 2026, 5:00 AM EDTPersian LA: How 80,000 Iranian Jews Built the Wealthiest Diaspora Cluster in America
The most concentrated Persian Jewish community in the world. 80-100K in Greater LA. Beverly Hills, Pico-Robertson, Tarzana. Nazarian, Younessi, Younai, Sassoon Kadisha. The refugee…
- Israeli Sports Business & Investment · Jun 24, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTKfar Maccabiah, Teddy Stadium, SRF Park TLV: The Permanent Israeli Sports Infrastructure Behind the Maccabiah
Kfar Maccabiah, Teddy Stadium, and SRF Park TLV form Israel's permanent sports infrastructure. These facilities scale up for the Maccabiah Games.
- Fintech & Public Markets · Jun 24, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTKornit Digital
Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT) — Rosh HaAyin industrial digital printing company; the institutional Israeli brand in on-demand apparel manufacturing, now navigating a post-2021 dema…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 24, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTIsraeli Wine Goes Global
Israel's 300+ wineries exported $57.3M, with Yarden scoring 97 at Decanter. Golan Heights, Domaine du Castel, Barkan, Tabor, Recanati, Flam, Tzora, and Yatir lead the revolution.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 23, 2026, 7:20 AM EDTShalom Meckenzie: The DraftKings Founder Nobody Knows Turns 50
Shalom Meckenzie, DraftKings founder, turned 50. He is one of Israel's richest, least-known entrepreneurs, having taken SBTech to a $3.3 billion SPAC.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 23, 2026, 7:15 AM EDTThe Diaspora Is Buying Israel — by the Meter
Bill Ackman at Rothschild 10. A French lawyer combining two Tel Aviv apartments. An Australian at NIS 58 million. The named buyers, brokers, and developers behind the diaspora capi…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 23, 2026, 7:00 AM EDTIsrael's Two Quantum Bets
Two Weizmann spin-offs in Ness Ziona. Quantum Source on photons, $77M raised, Naftali Bennett on the board. Quantum Art on trapped ions, $140M Series A. The Israeli quantum cluster…
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jun 23, 2026, 7:00 AM EDTElbit Beat Lockheed in Berlin
Elbit Systems closed 2025 with $7.94 billion in revenue and a $28.1 billion order backlog. Inside the Hermes, PULS, and laser portfolio that has made Israel's largest defense compa…
- Sovereign & Strategic Capital · Jun 23, 2026, 6:30 AM EDTMorgan Stanley Makes 13 — Israel's Bond Bid Gets Louder
13 primary dealers. $36 billion of demand on a $6 billion January issuance. A 4.8x bid-to-cover ratio in the middle of a war. The bond market voted on Israel before the equity mark…

























