The Builders

Gil Shwed co-founded Check Point in 1993 at 25 with Marius Nacht and Shlomo Kramer — invented the stateful inspection firewall and built the instituti…

Canonical English profiles of the men and women who built — and are building — the global Jewish business economy. Where English Wikipedia is thin, Th…

Yossi Vardi co-founded ICQ in 1996, sold it to AOL in 1998 for ~$407M, then made 90+ angel investments across two decades of Israeli technology. Chair…

Adam Singolda founded Taboola in 2007 in Tel Aviv. By 2026 it is the institutional Israeli company in the open-web advertising layer — locked into a 3…

Avishai Abrahami co-founded Wix.com in 2006 with brother Nadav and Giora Kaplan. NASDAQ-listed since 2013, 250M+ users globally — one of the largest I…

He started with a single shop in Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda market. Forty-five years later, his name is the synonym for price discounting in Israel.

The Israeli investor behind Watergen, co-founder of VK, and a major backer of Channel 14. Outside Israel his name is little known. Inside Israeli busi…

Founder of Empire Online, today the controlling shareholder of London-listed Livermore Investments — and a strongly Zionist figure with a long civic r…

Yoni Assia co-founded eToro in 2007 with brother Ronen and David Ring. Globalized Israeli fintech by building a regulated multi-jurisdiction retail-in…