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The new wave of enforcement around crypto assets and the criminal exposure of the Israeli entrepreneur.

The headline number says 2025 was the best year ever. The composition underneath says the ecosystem is narrowing — fewer companies, fewer sectors, bigger bets.

A 28% appreciation has split the Israeli economy in two. Importers and the government gain. Exporters, tech employers, and dollar earners pay — with Meta, Wix, Rapyd, and Amdocs al…

Israel made the world's first cultivated-meat regulatory history — and watched its best-funded cultivated-meat company shut down. Both facts are the story.

Israel's 10-year tax holiday for new residents survives. The privacy that came with it ended on January 1, 2026 — and that changes how diaspora wealth structures its move.

Three lanes carry Israeli trade: Mediterranean to Europe, Red Sea/Suez to Asia (disrupted since 2023), and air-sea-overland to the Gulf. The IMEC corridor would formalize a fourth…

שתיים מהחברות הגלובליות החשובות ביותר בתשלומים חוצי-גבולות נוסדו בישראל — Payoneer ו-Rapyd. למה שתיהן יצאו מישראל, מה כל אחת פתרה, מה אף אחת מהן לא בנתה, ותרחיש האינטגרציה לעשור הב…

Israel's biotech decade is no longer a frontier story — it's a category. $1.2 billion a year in health-tech funding, AI-native drug discovery platforms from Converge Bio to Immunai…

The 2026 Aliyah Reform impacts wealth migration, banking, and institutional architecture. This is a canonical reference for the framework and flows.

The Haifa Bay Authorities appointed Frank Melloul as Ambassador on June 1, 2026. The role is a recognition that IMEC is becoming a competition not only for infrastructure investmen…

Most Americans placing a Super Bowl bet through DraftKings have no idea the engine underneath it was built in part by Israeli engineers. The Diamond Eagle SPAC merger, the PASPA op…

Multi-billion-dollar Israel–UAE trade now moves on three operational lanes: direct sea services to Jebel Ali, dense air cargo through Ben Gurion, and limited overland flow via Jord…

English-speaking olim land in a small set of identifiable Israeli towns, often with the community built before the population arrives. The full map, from Ra'anana and Modi'in to Be…

Founded 1999 with engineering rooted in Israel from the start, Playtech became the back-end behind William Hill, bet365 partners, and dozens more. Teddy Sagi's bet was that the ope…

In 2017, three Israeli cybersecurity engineers investigated a $200M North Korean crypto theft. They concluded the institutional custody model was structurally broken. They left Che…

Cal — Israel Credit Cards — is acquiring Grow Payments Ltd. for roughly 200 million shekels. The first major move by new Cal CEO Yafit Griani and the first exit of a nonbank Israel…

כאל רוכשת את Grow Payments תמורת כ-200 מיליון שקל. המהלך המשמעותי הראשון של יפית גריאני כמנכ"לית החדשה של כאל, והאקזיט המהיר ביותר של חברת תשלומים חוץ-בנקאית ישראלית מאז פתיחת תשתי…

The Israeli Hospitality Citation Share Index 2026 ranks Israeli hotels and hospitality groups. It measures their AI citation share across major platforms.

Smaller in dollars, deeper in structure — nearly thirty years of free trade under CIFTA, and a community in Toronto and Montréal that anchors the relationship beyond the numbers.

Israel is one of the few major OECD tourism economies without a hotel REIT — and the structural conditions for one to emerge have never been more favorable than they are right now.

Bill Ackman didn't just buy an apartment. He bought Rothschild Boulevard as a macro bet on Israel. The original Meier sales team on why the boulevard compounds through every cycle…

Two-way US–Israel trade in goods and services exceeded $55 billion in 2024 — roughly a quarter of Israel's global trade. The anchor corridor the rest of the map organizes around.

A handful of families and individuals own nearly everything an Israeli watches or reads — Keshet, Reshet, Channel 14, Yedioth, Israel Hayom, Haaretz, Globes. The ownership map, the…

Shurat HaDin founder Nitsana Darshan-Leitner on the launch of Young Professionals — a standing community for Israelis and diaspora Jews 21–35, opening June 17 in Tel Aviv with form…