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- Ports & Logistics · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTSIPG Ashdod — The Chinese Port Presence No One Talks About
While Adani-Haifa gets the headlines, Shanghai International Port Group operates the new private container terminal at Ashdod South. The strategic asymmetry deserves more attention…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTHarris Blitzer and the Multi-Team Ownership Model
Josh Harris's Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment is the most consequential Jewish sports-ownership platform in the US. Across the 76ers, Devils, Eagles, and Commanders, it opera…
- Israeli Media, Entertainment & Gaming · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTThe Israeli Format Export
The Israeli television format and adaptation business is an established industrial category. Homeland, In Treatment, Fauda, and Euphoria are major exports.
- Ports & Logistics · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTAdani at Haifa: The Three-Year View
The 2023 Adani-Gadot acquisition of Haifa Port operating rights made Israeli ports a corridor asset. Three years later, throughput is flat to down, but the position has survived tw…
- Climate & Resource Tech · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTEnlight, Energix, and the Israeli Renewables Developer Wave
Enlight and Energix, Israel's leading TASE-listed renewables developers, lost 60% of index value in the 2023 rate shock. By 2026, data-center demand and a US storage build-out drov…
- Banking & Institutional Capital · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTThe Strum Reform, Eight Years On — Did Breaking Up Banking-Payments Concentration Actually Work?
In 2016 Israel forced Hapoalim and Leumi to spin off Isracard and CAL to break the banking-payments duopoly. Eight years in, the structural answer is yes; the price answer is no.
- Crypto & Digital Assets · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTThe Digital Shekel — The Design Choices That Matter
The Bank of Israel's digital shekel program is among the most advanced CBDC efforts globally. The design choices being finalized will shape the regional payments architecture.
- Universities & Research · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTThe Technion: Israel's Engineering University, Explained
The Technion, founded 1912, opened 1924, has produced four Nobel laureates in Chemistry and trained the engineers behind Check Point, Wiz, and Waze. Its founding fight was over whe…
- Ports & Logistics · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTIMEC Status: 2026
The India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor was signed at the 2023 G20. The 2024–2026 period was supposed to convert announcement into infrastructure. The actual progress, by se…
- Energy Corridors · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTEastMed After the Pipeline
The EastMed pipeline proposal is effectively shelved. What survives — Cyprus interconnector electricity, LNG cargo routes, and the EastMed Gas Forum — is the working architecture.
- Energy Corridors · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTLeviathan and the Egyptian Offtake
The Egypt offtake is what monetises Leviathan. The contract architecture, the EMG pipeline, and the LNG re-export through Idku and Damietta together make the Israeli gas economy co…
- Universities & Research · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTWeizmann and the Yeda Model
Yeda — the Weizmann Institute's tech-transfer arm — is the prototype Israeli university commercialisation vehicle. Its long-tail royalty stream and equity stakes set the model the…
- Agriculture & Food Tech · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTIsraeli Cultivated Meat After the Aleph Approval
Israel's 2024 regulatory approval for Aleph Farms' cultivated beef was a landmark for the category globally. Whether commercial scale follows is the open question.
- Universities & Research · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTYeda's Copaxone — The Best Academic License in History
The Weizmann Institute's tech transfer arm earned more than $1.5 billion in royalties on a single multiple sclerosis drug. Over its commercial life, Copaxone generated more than $4…
- Banking & Institutional Capital · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTIsraeli Private Banking and the Swiss Line
Israeli private banking, the Swiss correspondent layer, and the Miami offshore booking centre are one architecture. For the family-office reader, the line between onshore Israel an…
- Banking & Institutional Capital · May 26, 2026, 2:07 PM EDTThe Five-Bank Market After Strum
The Strum Committee reforms were supposed to break the Israeli banking duopoly. A decade on, the market is more contested at the edges but the core structure is intact.
- The Builders · May 26, 2026, 12:25 PM EDTYitzchak Mirilashvili: Watergen, VK, Channel 14
Yitzchak Mirilashvili is the Israeli investor behind Watergen, co-founder of VK, and a major backer of Channel 14. His reach is unusually broad.
- The Builders · May 26, 2026, 11:24 AM EDTDavid Azrieli: Tel Aviv's Skyline Builder
The Polish-born Holocaust survivor whose three towers redefined Tel Aviv — and whose name still anchors one of Israel's largest property empires.
- Fintech & Public Markets · May 26, 2026, 11:04 AM EDTPayoneer, Rapyd and the Globalization of Israeli Payments
Two of the most important global cross-border payments companies were founded in Israel — Payoneer and Rapyd. Why both came out of Israel, what each one solved, what neither one bu…
- Fintech & Public Markets · May 26, 2026, 11:03 AM EDTBit, PayBox and the Battle for Israeli Consumer Payments
Bit captured 90% of the Israeli consumer payment market. The January 2025 fee change impacts its future and the banks' seven years of free P2P.
- Fintech & Public Markets · May 26, 2026, 10:47 AM EDTאיך עסקים קטנים בישראל מקבלים תשלום ב-2026
Israeli small businesses in 2026 face new payment choices. The local market map includes clearing, bank transfers, Bit, PayBox, and international solutions.
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 26, 2026, 7:50 AM EDTEurope: Israel's Top Defense Customer
Europe took a reported 54% of Israeli defense exports in 2024 — up from 35%. Germany on Arrow 3 ($6.5B). Finland on David's Sling. The Olam tracks Israel's European procurement arc…
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 26, 2026, 7:50 AM EDTIsrael's Second Wave of Defense-Tech Founders: Xtend, Robotican, SpearUAV, UVision
Xtend, Robotican, SpearUAV, and UVision lead Israel's second wave of defense-tech founders. This makes the venture market a separately-priced asset class.
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 26, 2026, 7:50 AM EDTIsrael's Space Program: Ofek Satellites, Shavit Launch, AMOS, ImageSat
Ofek reconnaissance satellites. Shavit launch vehicle. AMOS commercial communications. ImageSat's EROS constellation. The Israel Space Agency. Israel runs a small but capable indig…
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 26, 2026, 7:50 AM EDTThe Invisible War: Inside Israel's Electronic Warfare Industrial Base
Jam the radio. Spoof the GPS. Win the engagement before the kinetic shot. The Olam covers Israel's electronic-warfare industrial base — ELTA, Elbit, Rafael, Verint, Cognyte — and t…

























