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- Aliyah & Wealth Migration · May 26, 2026, 5:49 AM EDTIsraeli Banks for Olim: How to Choose Before Making Aliyah
Israeli banks for olim compared: account setup, US citizen paperwork, Zakaut mortgages and the 75% loan-to-value limit, with facts sourced to Nefesh B'Nefesh and the banks.
- Strategic Technology Trade · May 26, 2026, 5:41 AM EDTBeTipul and In Treatment: The Format Adaptation
BeTipul launched in 2005 on Israeli cable. HBO's In Treatment adapted it three years later. The transaction defined the Israeli scripted format export model that has shaped global…
- Ports & Logistics · May 26, 2026, 5:41 AM EDTThe Sephardic Atlantic: Amsterdam, London, Curaçao
Three port cities — Amsterdam, London, and Curaçao — built the commercial architecture that made Sephardic Jewry the first truly trans-Atlantic Jewish community. The networks that…
- Fintech & Public Markets · May 26, 2026, 5:40 AM EDTThe TASE Foreign Ownership Trajectory
Foreign institutional ownership of Tel Aviv-listed equity has been on a structural uptrend for two decades. The 2023–2024 shock and the 2025–2026 recovery clarified what's driving…
- Israeli Infrastructure & Megaprojects · May 26, 2026, 5:40 AM EDTWonderful, Oasis, ZyG: The Israeli AI Agent Wave
Israel's AI agent wave is not a single category. It is a layered build-out across vertical agents, agent infrastructure, and agent identity — and the founders are concentrated in a…
- Israeli Infrastructure & Megaprojects · May 26, 2026, 5:40 AM EDTLatin American Jewish Institutional Architecture
Latin American Jewish communities have built denser institutional infrastructure than any diaspora outside the United States. The architecture explains why.
- Banking & Institutional Capital · May 26, 2026, 5:31 AM EDTThe Banking Stack: Pictet to Leumi
Six institutions form the banking spine that moves Jewish capital between Israel and the rest of the world. Each plays a specific role. None is interchangeable.
- Israel-Diaspora Investment Networks · May 26, 2026, 5:31 AM EDTDiaspora Operators: Founders Bridging Israel and the Global Economy
A class of founders operates simultaneously inside Israel and the global capital cities where Jewish business networks have built density over centuries. Their competitive advantag…
- Global Jewish Philanthropy · May 26, 2026, 5:30 AM EDTYad Hanadiv: Israel's Largest Private Foundation
Yad Hanadiv built the Knesset, the Supreme Court, and the National Library. The Rothschild family foundation is the institutional discipline against which every other Israeli phila…
- Israeli Cybersecurity Companies & Exits · May 26, 2026, 5:30 AM EDTUAE-Israel Cyber and AI Corridor: Who Buys What
How the UAE buys Israeli cyber and AI capability: three procurement tiers, the G42 and Microsoft link, Edge Group and what the 2022 trade agreement changed.
- Israeli Real Economy · May 26, 2026, 5:30 AM EDTICL Group: The Dead Sea Chemicals Position
ICL Group holds the exclusive concession to mine the Dead Sea — the most concentrated mineral resource on Earth — and its position is geological rather than technological. The stru…
- Venture & Exits · May 26, 2026, 5:24 AM EDTThe Concentration Cycle: What Half of Capital Going to Mega-Rounds Means for Early-Stage Israel
Israeli tech raised $7.6–8.6B in H1 2026 across just 129 rounds. Inside the verified concentration data — and why 86% of top seed rounds have zero European VC.
- Israeli Infrastructure & Megaprojects · May 26, 2026, 5:23 AM EDTThe Post-October 7 Medical Innovation Environment
The October 7 attacks and the subsequent war produced an unprecedented mass-casualty medical environment in Israel. The accelerated procedures, the prosthetics surge, the PTSD trea…
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 26, 2026, 5:23 AM EDTThe Talpiot Pipeline: How an Elite IDF Track Produces Operators
Talpiot has graduated roughly 1,500 cadets since 1979 through a nine-year commitment. The program produces a disproportionate share of Israeli technology founders.
- Olam Research · May 26, 2026, 5:23 AM EDTThe Mega-Round Database: Israeli Tech's $100M+ Deals
The round-by-round database: every named $100M+ Israeli tech financing in H1 2026, the sector breakdown, and the 11 major European VCs with zero deals on Israeli cap tables since 2…
- Abraham Accords Trade Corridors · May 25, 2026, 10:37 PM EDTThe UAE–Israel CEPA at Three: What the Free Trade Agreement Has Actually Done
The UAE–Israel CEPA took effect April 1, 2023. Three years on, bilateral trade has crossed $3 billion. What worked, what didn't, the Bahrain and Morocco comparison, and whether Sau…
- Energy Corridors · May 24, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTEnergy Corridors: Tamar, Leviathan, and the Egypt-Jordan Gas Architecture
Israel sits on more than 35 trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves. Chevron leads operations across Tamar and Leviathan; NewMed Energy anchors the Israeli operator laye…
- Sovereign & Strategic Capital · May 22, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTThe Post-Accords Sovereign Co-Investment Vehicles
The Abraham Accords and the Israel-UAE CEPA opened the diplomatic and regulatory frame for sovereign co-investment. Five years in, three distinct categories operate — and the forma…
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 20, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTThe Israel-US Defense Corridor
The Israel-US defense corridor operates across five layers, including FMF and joint development programs. It is the world's deepest bilateral defense relationship.
- Real Estate · May 17, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTTwo Markets in One City: Inside Tel Aviv's Trophy/Mainstream Bifurcation
Tel Aviv's real estate market bifurcates into trophy and mainstream segments. Rothschild 10 sold floors at ₪200,000/m² to foreign cash buyers.
- Aliyah & Wealth Migration · May 17, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTNefesh B'Nefesh: The Aliyah Pipeline
Nefesh B'Nefesh has facilitated over 80,000 olim from North America and the UK since 2002. It partners with the Jewish Agency and the Israeli government.
- Israeli Defense Industry · May 16, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTAI in Defense
Israeli defense AI benefits from continuous combat validation and a globally competitive civilian AI base. This unique intersection drives its operational integration and export tr…
- Global Jewish Philanthropy · May 14, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTAIPAC: The $156M Lobby That Became America's Largest PAC
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Founded 1954. 501(c)(4), EIN 53-0217164. Revenue $156.4M (FY 2023–24). CEO Elliot Brandt. AIPAC PAC + United Democracy Project: $126.9…
- Israeli AI Companies & Infrastructure · May 12, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTThe Israeli AI Hyperscaler Footprint: Google, Microsoft, Meta, AWS, Nvidia
Google, Microsoft, Meta, AWS, and Nvidia have built core AI capabilities in Israel. Their R&D footprint represents the largest US technology hyperscalers.
- Israel-Diaspora Investment Networks · May 6, 2026, 8:00 PM EDTThe Sassoon and Kadoorie Trading Houses: Baghdad to Bombay to Shanghai
The institutional history of the major Iraqi-Indian-Shanghai Jewish trading houses — David Sassoon & Co., the Kadoorie commercial structure, the Bombay-Calcutta-Shanghai-Hong Kong…
























