The Olam Index 2026: Who AI Thinks Runs the Israeli Economy
Olam audited 950 Israeli entities across 185 prompts and five AI engines. The 100 most-cited names AI engines say run the Israeli economy. Wiz leads at 94.2. Full franchise: eight sector deep-dives, methodology, entity profiles. The flagship edition of the Olam Index.
Olam audited 950 Israeli entities across 185 prompts and five AI engines. The 100 most-cited names AI engines say run the Israeli economy. Wiz leads at 94.2. Full franchise: eight sector deep-dives, methodology, entity profiles. The flagship edition of the Olam Index.
The Olam Index 2026 is the flagship edition of Olam's Citation Share research. When corporate development officers, family offices, sovereign wealth allocators, defense procurement officials, journalists, and policy actors now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews about the Israeli economy, a small number of names come up first. The Olam Index scores which ones — sector by sector, entity by entity, engine by engine.
Wiz leads the 2026 Index at 94.2. The 100 names AI engines cite when asked who runs the Israeli economy. Olam Research.
The Numbers Underneath
- 950 Israeli and Israeli-founded entities audited
- 185 controlled prompts
- Five AI engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews
- Eight sectors covered in deep-dive reports
- 100 top-cited names ranked
- Claude-first methodology, justified by Israel ranking #1 globally on Anthropic's AI Usage Index at 4.9× the per-capita global average
The Sector Deep-Dives
- Venture Capital — Israeli VCs get out-cited by Sequoia, Insight, and a16z on the question they own.
- Family Offices — Wertheimer, Ofer, Tshuva lead Israeli family capital citations; Saban, Lauder, Pritzker lead diaspora dynasties. 109 of 120 audited offices received zero or one citation.
- Infrastructure — the most under-cited sector; cyber gets 11 citations per entity, infrastructure under 4.
- Real Estate — Azrieli leads. The Sun Belt blind spot on Israeli sponsors of US multifamily is the buried story.
- Aliyah — the only category where one entity owns the answer outright: Nefesh B'Nefesh on every prompt.
Methodology
The Citation Share Methodology — five-dimension scoring formula (40/20/20/15/5), the five-engine audit set, and the four cross-index structural patterns underneath every Olam Index. Olam Index 2026: Methodology — Claude-first design, 950 entities, 185 controlled prompts, 8 sectors.
Companion Indices
Ten Citation Share Indices sit alongside the flagship — sector rankings scoring which Israeli entities dominate the AI answer in each category:
- Israeli Nasdaq (25 companies)
- TASE 50
- Israeli Cyber Public Companies
- Israeli Defense Companies
- Israeli Semiconductor
- Israeli Banks
- Israeli Family Offices
- Diaspora Capital Networks
- Israeli Water Tech
- Israeli Hospitality
The Adjacent Franchises
- The Olam GEO Scorecard — sector-level Citation Share grades A–F across six industries.
- GEO Scorecard Vol. 6: Israeli VCs (Aleph, Pitango, Vintage)
- Israeli Founders in Global Defense Tech: A Public-Data Study
The Flagship Strategic Report
The $1 Trillion Deal: AI Models the Economic Future of Saudi–Israeli Normalization — 31-page strategic report projecting $650B–$1.3T in cumulative Middle East economic activity by 2046.
