The Olam AI Citation Share Index — 2026 Series
The full Olam AI Citation Share Index series for 2026. Eleven sector benchmarks measuring who owns the answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
The master hub for the Olam AI Citation Share Index series. Eleven sector benchmarks. One question: who owns the answer inside the AI engines when the buyer, investor, or regulator asks about the Israeli and Jewish business economy?
What Citation Share measures
Citation Share is the modeled percentage of category-level brand or entity mentions inside AI answers across five engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. It is not a marketing metric. It is who the AI engine names when the question gets asked.
The Olam series applies the same methodology across eleven sectors of the Israeli and global Jewish business economy. Every index is modeled, v1.0, directional. Every index publishes its full prompt set. Every index is replicable. A v2.0 release with a fully instrumented panel is planned during Q3 2026.
The 2026 series — eleven indexes
Consumer & Retail
The Israeli Consumer Brand AI Citation Index 2026 — Hebrew-lead bilingual index of twenty Israeli consumer brands. Osem wins Hebrew at 18.4%. SodaStream and AHAVA own English. Six documented framing errors. Ten ranked satellite pages: Osem, Strauss, Tnuva, Elite, SodaStream, Sano, AHAVA, Sabon, Wissotzky, Tempo.
Financial System
The Israeli Banks Citation Share Index 2026 — the seven Israeli banks ranked by AI citation. Leumi and Hapoalim tied at #1 on international-surface advantage. Mizrahi Tefahot structurally under-cited despite briefly holding #1 by market cap in 2024–2025. Seven ranked satellite pages: Leumi, Hapoalim, Mizrahi Tefahot, Discount, FIBI, Bank of Jerusalem, One Zero.
Technology & Defense
The Israeli Semiconductor Citation Share Index 2026 — the Israeli chip names the engines name.
The Israeli Cyber Public Companies Citation Share Index 2026 — the listed Israeli cyber names by AI citation. Cyber is the most-cited Israeli sector on the AI answer surface — an average of eleven citations per entity, the highest in the series.
The Israeli Defense Companies Citation Share Index 2026 — the fifteen most-cited Israeli defense companies. Framed against SIBAT export data and the 2028 FMF cliff.
The Israeli AI Economy Citation Share Index 2026 — the twenty most-cited Israeli AI companies. Who the engines name when the question is about Israeli AI itself.
Capital
The Israeli Family Offices Citation Share Index 2026 — the fifteen most-cited Israeli family offices. Wertheimer, Ofer, and Tshuva lead visible Israeli citations.
The Diaspora Capital Networks Citation Share Index 2026 — Jewish diaspora capital networks shaping Israel. Saban, Lauder, and Pritzker lead the dynastic names.
The Olam US-Listed Citation Share Index 2026 — the twenty-five most-cited Israeli and Israeli-founded US-listed companies.
Olam Index verticals — the cross-sector 2026 read
Olam Index 2026: Real Estate — Azrieli leads visible Israeli real estate citations. The buried story is the Sun Belt blind spot — Israeli sponsors of US multifamily, hidden behind US-domiciled LLCs and invisible to the AI engines.
Olam Index 2026: Infrastructure — the most under-cited Israeli sector in the series. Cyber gets eleven citations per entity; infrastructure under four. Shikun & Binui leads. Desalination — the country's signature export — gets three.
Olam Index 2026: Family Offices — Israeli and diaspora family capital in one frame. 109 of 120 audited offices received zero or one citation.
Olam Index 2026: Aliyah — the only Olam Index category where one entity owns the answer outright. Nefesh B'Nefesh, every prompt. The 2026 tax reform creates the biggest commercial gap in the series.
Cross-series findings
Cyber is the top-cited Israeli sector. Eleven citations per entity, the highest of any sector in the series. This is where the AI engines have the most retrievable Israeli signal — and where the retrieval infrastructure of the past two decades has actually done its job.
Infrastructure and consumer brands sit at the bottom. Under four citations per entity for infrastructure. Consumer brands post the widest Hebrew–English gaps in the series — Osem at +12.3 percentage points; SodaStream at −8.4. Two entirely different sovereignty problems, both under-covered.
Framing errors are systemic. Every index in the series documents specific factual errors the AI engines return as authoritative answers. Osem framed as "Israel's largest food company" when it is third. Tnuva as "the Israeli dairy cooperative" more than a decade after Bright Food took control. Sabon as "made locally in Israel" while its Kiryat Gat plant closes. Every documented framing error is a defensible content angle for the affected entity — a retrieval anchor a competitor has not built.
Hebrew and English are two different retrieval markets. Every bilingual index in the series shows this. Legacy Israeli brands under foreign ownership own the Hebrew answer and cede the English one. Export-built brands own English and cede Hebrew. Neither position is stable. Both are winnable. Neither will be won by accident.
Methodology, shared across the series
Each index is built on the same two independent inputs: live sampled prompt executions in clean sessions across all five engines during the study window, and structured desk research on the publicly retrievable AI-answer surface for each entity in the same window. Scores are reconciled per entity. Where the two inputs materially disagreed, the more conservative score was retained.
The prompt sets vary in size by index (60 to 200 prompts). Every prompt set is published in the master index appendix so any researcher can replicate. Full method, coding rules, and stated limitations appear in each master index.
What comes next
A v2.0 release of the full series with a fully instrumented live panel, coded transcripts, and disclosed dispersion is planned as an addendum during Q3 2026. Between now and then, the series will expand — additional sector benchmarks are in the queue.
For editorial inquiries, methodology questions, or replication data: contact Olam Research.
Olam Research is the research desk of The Olam — the intelligence platform for the global Jewish business economy. Publisher: Ronn Torossian. Editorial decisions are independent of any commercial partner.