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- Israeli Real Economy · May 29, 2026, 9:58 AM EDTTourism Inside Israel: The Recovery Math
Inbound collapsed from 4.55 million visitors in 2019 to roughly one million in 2024. The 2025–2026 rebound is happening — unevenly, segment by segment, source country by source cou…
- Real Estate · May 29, 2026, 9:56 AM EDTThe Israeli Boutique Hotel Class
How a country with five luxury hotels in 2005 ended up with forty of them — and built a serious boutique-luxury layer largely on its own.
- Banking & Institutional Capital · May 29, 2026, 9:55 AM EDTIsraeli Finance Beyond the Banks
Israeli finance extends beyond banks. Pension funds, insurance companies, and family offices hold the real capital. This reveals who controls it and how it moves.
- Aliyah & Wealth Migration · May 29, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTThe French Aliyah Bet
France led 2025's aliyah surge with a 45% jump in arrivals and a 350% spike in applications. The trigger isn't economic — it's a documented rupture in French Jewish life, and the c…
- Israeli Legal Industry · May 28, 2026, 11:13 PM EDTThe ICC Is No Longer a Court. It Is a Combatant.
A court of last resort, properly understood, exists to constrain impunity. A court that selects its targets according to the geometry of political acceptability has become somethin…
- Abraham Accords Trade Corridors · May 28, 2026, 6:00 PM EDTThe Negev Forum at Four: Bilateral Substance After the Multilateral Stall
The Negev Forum turned four in March 2026. The second ministerial — promised for Morocco in 2023 — has never happened. The diplomatic framework is dormant. The bilateral economic s…
- Fintech & Public Markets · May 28, 2026, 3:37 PM EDTThe Olam Nasdaq 20: Israel's Flagship Listed Companies
Israel has more companies on Nasdaq than any country outside the US, Canada, and China. The Olam Nasdaq 20 lists key Israeli anchor companies.
- Strategic Technology Trade · May 28, 2026, 10:49 AM EDTIsrael–UK: The £6.2 Billion Corridor
UK–Israel trade reached £6.2 billion in the year to Q3 2025, with services accounting for over half. This growing corridor runs deep through London.
- Abraham Accords Trade Corridors · May 28, 2026, 10:41 AM EDTIsrael–UAE: $3.2 Billion and Climbing
Trade between Israel and the UAE hit $3.2 billion in 2024. The UAE is now Israel's largest Arab trading partner.
- Ports & Logistics · May 28, 2026, 9:00 AM EDTEilat Port and the Red Sea Crisis
Israel's only Red Sea port collapsed when the Houthi campaign closed the Bab el-Mandeb lane. Eilat Port Company sought state assistance in summer 2024 and remains in operational hi…
- Israel-Diaspora Investment Networks · May 28, 2026, 8:57 AM EDTAntwerp: The Diamond Capital That Moved
Antwerp was the world's diamond capital — but the lasting story is where the capital went: to Ramat Gan, New York and Dubai. A study in diaspora continuity and generational wealth…
- Health & Biotech · May 28, 2026, 8:45 AM EDTIsrael Builds the Tools, Not the Drugs
Israel has roughly 1,800 life-sciences companies and almost no original blockbuster drugs. That is not a gap in the ecosystem — it is the shape of it.
- Israeli Infrastructure & Megaprojects · May 28, 2026, 8:24 AM EDTIsrael Can Plan Megaprojects. Can It Build Them?
The country that engineers world-class technology is running its largest-ever civil program — and the early evidence suggests planning was never the hard part. Execution is.
- Israel-Diaspora Investment Networks · May 28, 2026, 8:11 AM EDTFrench-Jewish Capital and Real Estate: Paris, Netanya, and the Money in Motion
French private wealth is moving to Israel, with Netanya as a primary landing point. This capital also flows to London and Miami.
- Venture & Exits · May 28, 2026, 8:00 AM EDTHow Israeli Billionaire Families Invest Globally
Israeli billionaire families are investing globally across diverse sectors. Their capital targets Manhattan real estate, AI infrastructure, and defense tech.
- Israel-Diaspora Investment Networks · May 28, 2026, 7:10 AM EDTHow Diaspora Capital Actually Reaches Israeli Companies
Most coverage tracks the deals. The more durable story is the plumbing — the funds, structures, and rules that move global Jewish and institutional capital into Israeli industry.
- Agriculture & Food Tech · May 28, 2026, 6:44 AM EDTWhy Israel Bet the Farm on the Protein Transition
A country that imports most of its food built one of the world's most ambitious alternative-protein industries — deliberately, as national strategy.
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 28, 2026, 4:58 AM EDTElbit and the $30 Billion Backlog
Israel’s largest defense prime by order book just crossed $30 billion in backlog — 71% of it foreign. Inside the Federmann-controlled, Nasdaq-listed company that turned European re…
- Israeli Real Economy · May 28, 2026, 4:51 AM EDTReversing the River: How Israel Is Climate-Proofing Its Water
Israel is pumping manufactured water uphill into its largest natural lake — and treating resource security as a permanent national strategy.
- Israeli Real Economy · May 28, 2026, 4:51 AM EDTMekorot: Israel's National Water Company
Mekorot is Israel's national water company, supplying 80% of drinking water. Its 2024 revenue was NIS 5.36 billion.
- Climate & Resource Tech · May 28, 2026, 4:49 AM EDTDesalination Is Israel's Most Underrated Export
The world is discovering it has Israel's old problem. Israel already has the answer packaged, financed and ready to ship.
- Israeli Real Economy · May 28, 2026, 4:49 AM EDTIsrael Reuses 90% of Wastewater
Desalination gets the headlines. Wastewater reuse is the quieter, cheaper engine of Israel's water surplus — and the bigger global opportunity.
- Climate & Resource Tech · May 28, 2026, 4:48 AM EDTIsrael Solved Water. Now It Sells the Answer.
A nation that is 60 percent desert turned scarcity into surplus — and built an export industry out of the engineering.
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · May 28, 2026, 4:11 AM EDTThe Complete Map of Israeli iGaming
Playtech, 888/Evoke, Playtika, Moon Active, Plarium, SBTech inside DraftKings, Optimove, NeoGames, SciPlay — and the Cyprus-Malta-Gibraltar offshore corridor. The most successful I…
- Fintech & Public Markets · May 28, 2026, 3:00 AM EDTלמה Stripe עדיין לא פועלת בישראל — ובמה עסקים משתמשים במקום
Stripe לא פועלת בישראל. למה הפער נמשך ב-2026, ארבע הסיבות האמיתיות שלא נסגר עדיין, stack המעקף שעסקים ישראלים משתמשים בו בפועל, ומה סגירתו תפתח.

























