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- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 9, 2026, 9:01 AM EDTIMEC Corridor
- Ports & Logistics · Jun 9, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTThe Future of Warehousing and Distribution in Israel
The central distribution corridor — Ashdod through Yavne, Modi'in, Shoham, Lod — anchored by Ben Gurion Airport. Cold chain for Teva and pharma exports. Taavura in trucking. Bringg…
- Strategic Technology Trade · Jun 9, 2026, 8:25 AM EDTTower Semiconductor: From Intel's $5.4B Reject to a $29 Billion Photonics Powerhouse
Tower Semiconductor (TSEM): $29.4B market cap, +462% in 12 months. Intel walked away at $5.4B in 2023. Silicon photonics for AI data centers. NVIDIA deal. Record Q2 2026. 2028 targ…
- Health & Biotech · Jun 9, 2026, 8:20 AM EDTThe Teva Problem
Israel's one pharmaceutical giant nearly destroyed itself reaching for scale. Its recovery is real — but it is a story about surviving the generics model, not vindicating it.
- Fintech & Public Markets · Jun 9, 2026, 8:15 AM EDTMobileye, Three Years a Public Company
Mobileye returned to Nasdaq in 2022 at a $17 billion valuation. Intel had targeted $50 billion. The gap has shaped the company's market story ever since.
- Olam Research · Jun 9, 2026, 7:05 AM EDTWho Owns Israeli Natural Gas?
Chevron operates Leviathan and Tamar, Israel's two largest natural gas fields. Energean owns Karish, with SOCAR and Mubadala holding stakes in Tamar.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 9, 2026, 5:00 AM EDTThe Olam Climate-Tech Index 2026
The Olam Climate-Tech Index ranks six anchor Israeli climate, water, and resource technology operators by infrastructure scale. Two are public, four are private or foreign-owned.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 9, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTThe East Mediterranean Energy Map: Who Owns Israel's Gas — And Where It Goes
Israel's gas system is now regional infrastructure with Chevron, NewMed, SOCAR, Mubadala, BP, and Energean. Three fields and a $35B Egypt contract define the East Med power map.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 9, 2026, 2:30 AM EDTThe Hebrew Desk: AI Infrastructure Week, Dollar Shortages, Haredi Consumer Economy
Issue 1 of The Hebrew Desk — a weekly Olam brief on business stories moving through Hebrew media before they reach English-language coverage. This week: Israel's AI infrastructure…
- Real Estate · Jun 9, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTInside the AI Citation Map of Israeli Hospitality
A growing share of premium hotel research now starts inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — not Google. Mapping which Israeli luxury properties are visible i…
- How AI Describes Israel's Economy · Jun 9, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTThe Olam Index
Olam's standing research franchise measuring which Israeli and diaspora entities AI engines cite first across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. 950 enti…
- Israeli Defense Industry · Jun 9, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTInside the Israel–India Defense Corridor
- Sovereign & Strategic Capital · Jun 9, 2026, 1:19 AM EDTThe Citizens' Fund at Four Years: Framework Built, Scale Pending
Israel's sovereign wealth fund passed its fourth operational anniversary with NIS 8.8 billion in deposits. The framework is built. The scale is not.
- Real Estate · Jun 9, 2026, 1:13 AM EDTThe Kibbutz Hotel Format
The country's oldest hospitality format — cooperative-owned hotels operated by Galilee, Negev, and Hula Valley kibbutzim — and the modern repositioning that has turned some of them…
- Israeli Real Economy · Jun 8, 2026, 7:11 PM EDTThe Haredi Supermarket That Started Selling Kia Cars Next to the Challah
Osher Ad started selling Kia Sportage vehicles inside its supermarkets. The model worked. Now Rami Levy, SPAR and other Israeli retail chains are racing to copy it.
- Ports & Logistics · Jun 8, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTSmart Ports and Maritime Technology in Israel
Bayport and Hadarom run semi-automated: ASCs in the yard, integrated TOS, OCR gate, AI yard optimization. Customs digitized via the Israel Tax Authority's SHAAM system. Maritime cy…
- Aliyah & Wealth Migration · Jun 8, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTThe October 7 Generation
One-third of new olim are 18 to 35. Doctors, engineers, entrepreneurs, lone soldiers. The cohort moving in response to a rupture in Western Jewish identity — and the one that will…
- Venture & Exits · Jun 8, 2026, 8:00 AM EDTPrivate Capital Behind Israel's Luxury Real Estate Boom
Tel Aviv is one of the world's most expensive residential markets. Private capital from family offices and diaspora buyers fuels its luxury real estate boom.
- Climate & Resource Tech · Jun 8, 2026, 5:00 AM EDTIsrael's Climate and Water Economy: The Complete Map
Israel, 60% desert, reuses 90% of its wastewater and operates the Mediterranean's largest desalination plants. This expertise is exported globally by firms like Mekorot and Netafim…
- Jewish Summer Camp & Youth · Jun 8, 2026, 2:13 AM EDTThe Olam Camp Economy 2026
A half-billion-dollar industry just turned away 5,200 children. Olam's first map of the global Jewish summer camp economy — $510M in NA overnight revenue, 3,140 Israeli shlichim du…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 8, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTFSU Capital and Israel's Trophy Real Estate Market
After 2022, Israel became a key luxury real-estate market for unsanctioned FSU-origin capital. Transactions are legal, visible, and under heavy compliance.
- Olam Research · Jun 8, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTThe Israeli Water-Tech AI Citation Share Index 2026
An Olam editorial index ranks the most-cited Israeli water-tech companies and utilities by modeled AI citation share across five major AI platforms.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · Jun 8, 2026, 2:00 AM EDTThe Category Builder
Shlomo Kramer has built three cybersecurity categories in 32 years — Check Point, Imperva, Cato Networks. The patience trade behind a postponed IPO, the Wiz comparison, and why Isr…
- Health & Biotech · Jun 8, 2026, 1:00 AM EDTThe Maccabi Innovation Pipeline
Maccabi serves ~2.4 million Israelis and runs the country's largest biobank through KSM. The most commercially accessible HMO partnership platform in the developed world — and the…
- Israeli Infrastructure & Megaprojects · Jun 7, 2026, 9:13 PM EDTThe Metro Funding Gap
Half the Tel Aviv Metro is supposed to pay for itself through dedicated taxes. Those taxes are coming in short, the bridge financing doesn't exist, and the politics are fighting th…
























