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- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 23, 2026, 5:00 AM EDTMati Kochavi: AGT International Founder
Mati Kochavi built AGT International into a $1B-revenue, 2,300-employee homeland-security platform. It was anchored by Abu Dhabi's ~$816M Falcon Eye contract.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 23, 2026, 4:00 AM EDTHe Sold Generics for $1.75B — Then Funded the ICC
Tony Tabatznik, the South African-born British Jewish billionaire behind the Bertha Foundation, has spent fifteen years quietly underwriting the legal infrastructure of Israel's pr…
- Founders & Companies · Jun 23, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTTeddy Sagi: The Playtech Founder Who Owns Camden Market
Teddy Sagi founded Playtech in 1999, building a dominant online gambling platform. His net worth is $7.1 billion in 2026.
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jun 23, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTThe 2028 FMF Cliff: What Happens When $3.8 Billion in US-Israel Military Aid Expires
The 2016 US-Israel MOU expires in 2028. $3.8B/year in Foreign Military Financing. The off-shore procurement provision phases out. The structural shift Israeli defense industry has…
- Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 23, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTCamp Gan Israel: Chabad's Global Camp Network
100,000+ children. Several hundred camps. The largest Jewish camping network on Earth — built on a distributed-operator model that scales where centralized institutions can't. The…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 23, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTThe $200 Million Machine
Yael Eckstein inherited the largest Christian-to-Jewish philanthropic operation in history. What it is, how it works, and what happens next.
- Strategic Technology Trade · Jun 23, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTIsrael–Japan: The Quiet Manufacturing and Technology Corridor
Bilateral trade between Israel and Japan is $3–4 billion, with more in capital and contracts. Japanese industrial exports integrate Israeli engineering.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 23, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTOsem: How an Israeli Snack Empire Became Swiss-Owned
Founded by Polish-Jewish immigrants in 1942, acquired by Nestlé in stages from 1995 to 2016. Bamba, Bissli, and the peanut-allergy research arc that reshaped global pediatric guida…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 22, 2026, 11:14 PM EDTThe 10 Startups Palmer Luckey Met
Palmer Luckey met ten Israeli defense-tech startups in February 2026. DDR&D walked him through Smart Shooter, Kela, ASIO, LiteVision, Regulus, Magnus Metal, Skana, AIR, eyesAtop, a…
- Founders & Companies · Jun 22, 2026, 10:59 AM EDTShe Inherited Melisron — She Built an Empire
Inherited Ofer Investments from Yuli Ofer. Took Melisron from regional player to one of the two largest real estate companies in Israel. One of two female billionaires in Israel.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 22, 2026, 10:58 AM EDTFrom a Transit Camp to Migdal
From a Beit Lid transit camp to controlling 68% of Israel's largest insurance group. Sacked from Migdal as a teenager in 1953. Bought it back from Italy's Generali for NIS 3.54 bil…
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jun 22, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTEurope Runs on Spike
The Spike missile family is the most successful Israeli weapons export in modern history. Built by Rafael, produced by Eurospike for European customers, sold to 30+ countries. The…
- Founders & Companies · Jun 22, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTAmdocs Built It — Kahn Paid for the Moon
South African-born Israeli industrialist Morris Kahn founded Amdocs in 1982 and bankrolled SpaceIL's Beresheet lunar lander. The lowest-profile of Israel's first-generation tech fo…
- Fintech & Public Markets · Jun 22, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTGlobal-E Online (Nasdaq: GLBE): Israel's Cross-Border Commerce Platform
Global-E Online (Nasdaq: GLBE) reported $1.74 billion GMV and $252 million revenue in Q1 2026. This Israeli cross-border e-commerce platform is a Shopify strategic partner.
- Founders & Companies · Jun 22, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTIsraeli Capital Ownership Maps: Who Owns the TASE
Who owns Israel's public companies — the four capital pools that control the TASE. Big Five insurers (Migdal, Harel, Phoenix, Clal, Menora), investment houses (Meitav, Altshuler Sh…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 22, 2026, 2:00 AM EDT$1 Billion a Year: The Evangelical Map
Christian organizations move close to a billion dollars a year into Israel and Israel-aligned causes. The largest non-Jewish economic input into the Jewish state — and the least ma…
- Global Jewish Philanthropy · Jun 22, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTWhere Schindler's List Money Went
Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation, founded with $100 million in Schindler's List profits, has steered approximately $3 million since 2020 to Jewish groups that helped…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 22, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTTnuva: From Kibbutz Dairy to $2.5B Chinese Acquisition
Tnuva is the largest food company in Israel. Founded 1926 as a kibbutz-and-moshav cooperative, converted to a limited company and sold to Apax in 2008 at $1.025B valuation, then to…
- Founders & Companies · Jun 21, 2026, 11:40 PM EDTPalmer Luckey: Radical Zionist
He sold Oculus to Facebook for $2 billion. He got fired for backing Trump. Now he runs a $61 billion defense unicorn — and he's building it for Israel.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 21, 2026, 11:15 PM EDTYaacov Agam, Dead at 98 — One of the Greatest Jewish Artists Ever
Yaacov Agam, the Israeli sculptor and painter recognized around the world as the father of kinetic art, died Sunday in Paris at 98. The kabbalist's son who outflanked the second co…
- Aliyah & Wealth Migration · Jun 21, 2026, 5:00 AM EDTTel Aviv: The Anglo Startup Core
Tel Aviv is the urban Anglo startup core and a founder cluster. Its lifestyle proposition competes with London, New York, and Berlin.
- Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 21, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTFoundation for Jewish Camp: The Umbrella Behind 300+ Camps
The umbrella organization that built the Jewish camp field — and the strategic challenges that test it now. Donor concentration, capacity constraints, MESSH professionalization gap…
- Fintech & Public Markets · Jun 21, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTJFrog
JFrog (Nasdaq: FROG) — Netanya-founded DevOps platform that productized the modern software supply chain; the listed flagship of the Israeli developer-tools generation.
- Israeli Sports Business & Investment · Jun 21, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTTop Jewish Athletes 2026: Avdija, Bregman, the Hughes Brothers, Adam Fox, Sheezel — the Maccabiah Pipeline
Deni Avdija (first Israeli NBA All-Star 2026), Alex Bregman, the Hughes brothers, Adam Fox, Harry Sheezel, Diego Schwartzman, and the global Jewish athlete roster.
- Agriculture & Food Tech · Jun 21, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTStrauss Coffee: A Top-Five Global Coffee Company
Três Corações, Brazil dominance, the Strauss family arc, and the Eastern European operations that make Strauss Coffee a top-five global coffee company.
























