Culture, Lifestyle & Reach · 67 stories · Updated Sep 11, 2026
The founders behind Israeli businesses, the executives running them and the ownership decisions that shape their companies.
Lead storyUnicorn Rodeo, organized by the Texas-Israel Alliance and The Jerusalem Post Group, brings Israeli founders and Texas investors to Dallas on October 20 and 21, 2026, for sessions on AI, energy, health and defense investm…
Read →Israel runs a deep founder pipeline.
Per Tracxn data published April 2026, Israel has produced 42 unicorns. Per Israel Innovation Authority data reported by Times of Israel in early 2026, 39 active tech unicorns operate in the country. Tel Aviv accounts for 25 of them; Herzliya for 4; Jerusalem for 3.
The pipeline behind those numbers runs through identifiable institutions: Unit 8200, Talpiot, Unit 9900, Mossad cyber, Shin Bet technology, the Technion's computer science and information security programs, the Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University, and Tel Aviv University. The same names recur across Wiz, CyberArk, Check Point, Mobileye, AI21 Labs, Armis, and the next generation including Heven AeroTech, Wonderful, Oasis Security, and Line5.
Per the Technion CS faculty, faculty graduates lead the unicorn list — including Assaf Rappaport (Wiz), Oren Kaniel (AppsFlyer), Eilon Reshef (Gong), and Nadir Izrael and Yevgeny Dibrov (Armis).
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Long-form reference entries in Founders & Companies
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Unicorn Rodeo, organized by the Texas-Israel Alliance and The Jerusalem Post Group, brings Israeli founders and Texas investors to Dallas on October 2…
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Liora Ofer chairs Melisron, Israel's largest mall owner, and holds sole ownership of Ofer Investments after a 20-year inheritance dispute. Forbes 2026…
NVIDIA Israel, with 5,000 employees across seven R&D centers, is NVIDIA's largest engineering operation outside the US, stemming from the $6.9B Mellan…
Shufersal (TASE: SAE): founded 1958. Israel's largest supermarket chain. 316+ branches. 30-35% market share. Revenue NIS 15.6B. 15,500 employees. The…
Canonical English profiles of the men and women — and the Israeli academic anchors — building the global Jewish business economy. Where Hebrew, French…
Israeli consumer brands: the complete Olam map. 20+ anchor pages covering food, beauty, fashion, household, retail, and the founding families. Built f…
SodaStream, founded 1903, was acquired by PepsiCo for $3.2 billion in 2018. It went public on Nasdaq in 2010.
Gottex: founded 1956 in Tel Aviv by Holocaust survivor Lea Gottlieb. She sold her wedding ring to buy fabric. Dressed Princess Diana and Elizabeth Tay…
