The Olam
Sports & Entertainment Capital

The Olam Nasdaq Citation Share Index 2026: Which Israeli Nasdaq Companies Own the AI Answer

By The Olam Editorial Team · Jun 26, 2026
The Olam Nasdaq Citation Share Index 2026: Which Israeli Nasdaq Companies Own the AI Answer

An Olam editorial index ranking the 25 most-cited Israeli or Israeli-founded Nasdaq-listed companies by modeled AI citation share across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Outside the US, Canada, and China, no country has placed more companies on Nasdaq than Israel.

Approximately 104 Israeli or Israeli-founded companies are listed on Nasdaq as of 2026 — the third-largest national contingent on the exchange, and the densest concentration of foreign-founded technology companies on any major US market. For a growing share of global investors, analysts, journalists, and retail allocators, AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — increasingly sit near the top of the research funnel that surfaces these companies. Which means investor visibility for the Israeli Nasdaq universe is no longer set by sell-side coverage alone. It is set by whether the company surfaces when an allocator asks the bot which Israeli Nasdaq companies matter.

This index ranks the 25 most-cited Israeli Nasdaq-listed companies by modeled AI citation share. Compiled by Olam, the Israel intelligence platform. Two reference anchors precede this index: Israeli Companies on Nasdaq: The Complete Directory (the full 104-company reference) and The Olam Nasdaq 20 (the institutional shortlist).

Methodology. Olam analyzed 60+ public-company discovery, investor-research, and sector-mapping prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews between April and May 2026. Citation share reflects modeled editorial visibility based on recurring mentions across engines, English-language SEC and analyst disclosure flow, Wikipedia depth, and continuous US financial press cycles. Figures are directional estimates, not platform-reported analytics.

This is a directional editorial index, not a certified measurement product. The Olam Nasdaq Citation Share Index 2026 is an editorial selection from the broader 104-company Israeli Nasdaq universe.

Tier 1 — The top 10

The ten most-cited Israeli Nasdaq companies. Three structural factors recur across the top tier: long Nasdaq tenure (Check Point, NICE, Elbit), category-default positions in core technology verticals (cyber, ADAS, semiconductors), and continuous English-language press cycles compounding over decades.

  1. Check Point Software (Nasdaq: CHKP) — Leading modeled citation share in the cohort. Founded 1993 by Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, and Shlomo Kramer. World’s first commercial firewall company. Nasdaq-listed since 1996. Among Israel’s most-cited public companies globally; the foundational name in commercial network security, cited as default in nearly every prompt about Israeli cyber, firewall history, or Nasdaq-listed Israeli technology. Delisted from TASE in 2015; Nasdaq-only since.
  2. Mobileye (Nasdaq: MBLY) — Very high modeled citation share. ADAS and autonomous-driving leader. Founded 1999 by Prof. Amnon Shashua and Prof. Ziv Aviram. Acquired by Intel in 2017 for $15.3 billion in what was the largest Israeli acquisition in history at the time; relisted on Nasdaq in October 2022. Intel retains majority ownership. Acquired Mentee Robotics in February 2026 for $900 million — an expansion into Physical AI and humanoid robotics that is materially expanding Mobileye’s 2026 citation footprint. Shashua himself is one of Israel’s most-cited AI founders.
  3. Elbit Systems (Nasdaq: ESLT) — Very high modeled citation share. Israel’s largest publicly traded defense company. Federmann family control through Federmann Enterprises. Dual-listed on Nasdaq and TASE. The $30+ billion backlog across Iron Dome ecosystem participation, electro-optics, and unmanned systems drives sustained citation share, lifted further by the elevated global defense narrative since 2022. Profiled in Olam: Elbit and the $30 Billion Backlog.
  4. CyberArk (Nasdaq: CYBR) — High modeled citation share. Privileged access management. Israel’s flagship pure-play cyber name on Nasdaq after Check Point. Strong analyst coverage and AI-security narrative attachment compound citation share.
  5. NICE Ltd (Nasdaq: NICE) — High modeled citation share. Enterprise CX/analytics software. Israel’s largest TASE-listed pure-play technology company — dual-listed Nasdaq/TASE. Contact-center solutions, financial crime and compliance platforms.
  6. Tower Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TSEM) — High modeled citation share. Specialty foundry. The cancelled Intel acquisition in 2023 generated a structural citation cycle that persists in AI training data. Dual-listed Nasdaq/TASE. AI-chip cycle compounds citation share upward in 2026.
  7. Wix.com (Nasdaq: WIX) — High modeled citation share. Website-builder leader. Founded by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan. Israeli SaaS flagship; one of the most-cited Israeli founder narratives in consumer-tech prompts.
  8. Monday.com (Nasdaq: MNDY) — Strong modeled citation share. Work-OS platform. Founded by Roy Mann and Eran Zinman. One of the most-cited recent Israeli SaaS founder stories.
  9. SentinelOne (NYSE: S) — Strong modeled citation share. Israeli-founded autonomous endpoint security. AI-narrative attachment compounds citation share materially. (Note: trades on NYSE rather than Nasdaq; included for completeness as Israeli-founded listed-cyber leadership.)
  10. JFrog (Nasdaq: FROG) — Strong modeled citation share. DevOps software supply chain platform. Strong developer-tooling citation in technology prompts.

Tier 2 — Names 11–25

  1. Fiverr International (NYSE: FVRR) — Freelance services marketplace. Founded by Micha Kaufman and Shai Wininger. (Trades NYSE; included as one of the most-cited Israeli-founded internet listed companies.)
  2. Cellebrite (Nasdaq: CLBT) — Mobile forensics and digital intelligence. Notable in law-enforcement and government-policy citation contexts.
  3. Varonis Systems (Nasdaq: VRNS) — Data security platform. Institutional category position in data-centric cybersecurity.
  4. Lemonade (NYSE: LMND) — AI-native consumer insurance. Founded by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger. Citation share concentrated in insurtech and AI-application prompts.
  5. Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) — 3D-printing pioneer. Long-tenured listed Israeli industrial position.
  6. Camtek (Nasdaq/TASE: CAMT) — Semiconductor inspection. AI-chip cycle beneficiary. Dual-listed.
  7. Nova Measuring Instruments (Nasdaq/TASE: NVMI) — Semiconductor metrology. Dual-listed.
  8. Pagaya Technologies (Nasdaq: PGY) — AI-driven credit underwriting and structured finance. Israeli fintech-AI bridge to US capital markets.
  9. Hippo Holdings (NYSE: HIPO) — AI-driven home insurance platform.
  10. Innoviz Technologies (Nasdaq: INVZ) — LiDAR sensor manufacturer. Israeli mobility-silicon position in AV perception.
  11. Caesarstone (Nasdaq: CSTE) — Engineered quartz surfaces. Foundational Israeli industrial-export consumer brand.
  12. Sapiens International (Nasdaq/TASE: SPNS) — Insurance core software. Dual-listed.
  13. AudioCodes (Nasdaq/TASE: AUDC) — Voice and communications technology.
  14. Taboola (Nasdaq: TBLA) — Content recommendation network. Open-web advertising layer.
  15. Outbrain (Nasdaq: OB) — Content recommendation network. Second Israeli company alongside Taboola in the same open-web layer.

The exits and alumni — Israeli Nasdaq citation legacy

Several of the most-cited Israeli technology stories no longer trade on Nasdaq because they were acquired. Their citation footprint persists in the AI engines — in many cases stronger than companies still publicly listed — and continues to shape how the Israeli technology ecosystem is retrieved.

  • Wiz — Acquired by Google on March 11, 2026 in a $32 billion all-cash transaction. The largest acquisition in Google’s history. Wiz was never publicly listed — the company crossed $1 billion in ARR in 2025 and went directly from private to part of Google Cloud. Citation share elevated by sustained press cycle from initial March 2025 announcement through closing.
  • ironSource — Acquired by Unity Software in 2022 for approximately $4.4 billion. Mobile-app monetization platform.
  • Mellanox Technologies — Acquired by Nvidia in 2019 for approximately $6.9 billion. High-performance networking; the acquisition is now considered foundational to Nvidia’s AI-infrastructure architecture.
  • Habana Labs — Acquired by Intel in 2019 for approximately $2 billion. AI accelerator silicon — Intel’s primary AI-training chip program.
  • WalkMe — Acquired by SAP in 2024 for $1.5 billion. Digital adoption platform.
  • Mobileye — Acquired by Intel in 2017 for $15.3 billion; relisted to Nasdaq in October 2022. Now ranked #2 in the current Index.
  • Mentee Robotics — Acquired by Mobileye in February 2026 for $900 million. Physical AI / humanoid robotics. Co-founded by Amnon Shashua, Shai Shalev-Shwartz, and Lior Wolf.

What’s gaining citation share

  • Mobileye and the Physical AI narrative. The February 2026 Mentee Robotics acquisition has materially expanded Mobileye’s citation footprint by binding it to the humanoid-robotics and Physical AI narrative cycles — two of the hottest narrative categories of 2026.
  • Semiconductor names. Tower, Nova, and Camtek all benefit from AI-chip retrieval premium. AI infrastructure coverage is structurally over-indexed in training data — any company adjacent to AI semiconductors gets a citation lift.
  • Cyber category leaders. Check Point, CyberArk, SentinelOne, and Varonis all carry sustained citation lift from the AI-security narrative as cybersecurity consolidation accelerates — particularly post Google-Wiz close, which reset benchmark valuations across the listed cyber cohort.
  • AI-overlay insurance and fintech. Lemonade, Hippo, and Pagaya benefit from AI-narrative attachment compounding on top of their underlying insurtech and credit-tech positions.

What’s losing citation share

  • Pre-2022 IPO cohort facing margin pressure. Several Israeli companies that listed via SPAC or IPO in 2020-2021 (Hippo, Innoviz, Pagaya, Riskified) carry weaker citation share than their post-listing peaks, reflecting market reset and continued narrative recovery.
  • Companies acquired off Nasdaq without sustained narrative legacy. Several Israeli-founded names acquired and delisted in the 2018-2022 window (smaller cap exits without ongoing brand presence) have ceded citation share to peers still listed and generating disclosure flow.
  • Open-web advertising cohort. Outbrain and Taboola both face citation-share pressure as open-web advertising itself loses narrative weight to AI-search and platform-controlled distribution.

The structural shift

Four patterns hold across the Israeli Nasdaq cohort.

  • Nasdaq tenure compounds citation share. Companies with 20+ years of Nasdaq listing (Check Point, NICE, Stratasys, Magic Software) carry citation share dramatically above peers of similar current market capitalization but shorter tenure. SEC disclosure flow, analyst coverage, and English-language press cycles all compound over time.
  • Founder narrative density is a major citation lever. Companies with repeatedly-cited individual founders (Shashua at Mobileye/AI21, Shwed at Check Point, Abrahami at Wix, Mann/Zinman at Monday.com) carry citation share well above peers without comparable founder-recognition density.
  • Acquisition exits do not erase citation footprint — they often expand it. Wiz, Mellanox, Habana Labs, Mobileye-pre-relisting all generated citation lifts at acquisition that have persisted in AI training data for years. The exit becomes part of the company’s permanent retrieval record.
  • Sector-narrative attachment compounds on fundamentals. AI infrastructure, AI security, Physical AI, autonomous mobility, and AI-driven fintech all currently compound positively on top of the existing Israeli Nasdaq citation base. Sector cycles of 18 to 36 months meaningfully shift relative ranking inside the cohort.

FAQ

Which Israeli Nasdaq-listed company has the highest modeled AI citation share?
Check Point Software (Nasdaq: CHKP) leads the cohort, ahead of Mobileye and Elbit Systems. Check Point’s three-decade tenure on Nasdaq, foundational role in commercial firewall technology, and continuous English-language press cycle produce one of the deepest editorial footprints of any Israeli public company across tested prompts.

How many Israeli companies are listed on Nasdaq?
Approximately 104 Israeli or Israeli-founded companies are listed on Nasdaq as of 2026 — the third-largest national contingent on the exchange after the United States, Canada, and China. The full directory is maintained by Olam at the Israeli Companies on Nasdaq directory.

What is the Olam Nasdaq 20?
The Olam Nasdaq 20 is Olam’s editorial shortlist of the twenty Israeli or Israeli-founded Nasdaq-listed companies that, by scale or institutional standing, anchor the rest of the Israeli Nasdaq universe. This Citation Share Index ranks an expanded list of 25 by modeled AI visibility, drawing from that universe.

Is Wiz on the Olam Nasdaq Citation Share Index?
Wiz is not on this index because Wiz was never publicly listed. Google acquired Wiz on March 11, 2026 in a $32 billion all-cash deal — the largest acquisition in Google’s history — taking the company directly from private to part of Google Cloud. Wiz appears in the Exits and Alumni section.

Why does Mobileye rank so high in this index?
Mobileye combines three citation-positive structural factors: Amnon Shashua’s recognition as one of the most-cited AI founders globally; the company’s category-default position in automotive ADAS and autonomous driving prompts; and the February 2026 acquisition of Mentee Robotics for $900 million extending Mobileye into the Physical AI and humanoid robotics narrative.

How is AI citation share measured in this index?
Olam analyzed 60+ public-company discovery, investor-research, and sector-mapping prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews between April and May 2026. Citation share reflects modeled editorial visibility based on recurring mentions across engines, English-language SEC and analyst disclosure flow, Wikipedia depth, and continuous US financial press cycles. Figures are directional estimates, not platform-reported analytics.

The bottom line

Investor relations now has a retrieval layer. Visibility inside AI answers is becoming part of public-market discoverability — alongside filings, earnings calls, media coverage, and analyst research. For the Israeli Nasdaq cohort specifically, that retrieval layer is now dense, established, and structurally favorable: Nasdaq tenure, founder-narrative density, and AI sector-attachment all currently compound positively for Israeli-founded technology companies on the US exchanges.

Israeli Nasdaq-listed companies that do not build durable English-language founder narrative, sustained press placement, and Wikipedia depth at both company and founder level will lose visibility inside AI answers — even if their Nasdaq market capitalizations remain strong. Nasdaq citation share is not market cap. Nasdaq citation share is the price of the next institutional allocator’s research session.

Continue reading — the Olam Capital Markets cluster

Olam’s coordinated coverage of Israeli public and private capital markets.

The Builders

View all →