The Olam Nasdaq 20: Israel's Flagship Companies on the World's Most-Watched Exchange
Outside the US, Canada, and China, no country has placed more companies on Nasdaq than Israel. The Olam publishes the institutional shortlist — the twenty that, by scale or standing, anchor the rest.
Israel's flagship companies on the world's most-watched exchange — and the one list that puts them in proper proportion.
Outside the United States, Canada, and China, no country has placed more companies on Nasdaq than Israel. The count today stands at 104. The story is not the story of a tech ecosystem. It is the story of an economy that, two decades ago, decided to capitalize itself in American dollars and submit itself to American disclosure — and has continued doing so through every cycle since.
The Olam publishes here the institutional shortlist: the twenty Israeli companies on Nasdaq that, by scale or standing, anchor the rest. The full directory of 104 is published separately as a sortable, filterable reference.
Why this matters now
In 2026, Israeli companies on Nasdaq span cybersecurity, software, semiconductors, defense, mobility, biotech, fintech, and energy. Together they represent one of the deepest concentrations of publicly traded innovation outside the United States. The list is both a capital-markets ranking and a map of where Israeli industry sits globally today.
A note on inclusion
"Israeli" here means Israeli-founded or Israel-headquartered — the widest defensible frame. Mobileye, incorporated in Delaware but headquartered in Jerusalem, is in. Leonardo DRS, an American subsidiary of an Italian parent, is not. Companies registered abroad with Israeli founders and Israeli operating bases — Eco Wave Power, for instance — are included with disclosure. Five inclusion flags are documented in the master directory.
Market capitalizations cited below are directional, as of mid-2026, and confirmed against each company's filings at profile time. They move daily.
I. The largest
The companies above $10 billion.
Elbit Systems (Nasdaq: ESLT). For the first time since Mobileye's 2022 Nasdaq debut, the most valuable Israeli company on a US exchange is a defense company. Elbit — the Haifa-headquartered prime contractor in Israeli defense — has risen to the top of the Israeli ranking on the back of order-book expansion, multi-year export contracts, and a global rerating of defense names since 2022. Investors are treating Elbit's backlog as a forward stream of contracted cash flows; insider selling and a stretched multiple flag where expectations now sit. Founded in 1966, dual-listed on TASE, and a presence on every serious Israeli defense deliverable from drones to electro-optics.
Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq: CHKP). The original. Founded in Ramat Gan in 1993 by Gil Shwed, Marius Nacht, and Shlomo Kramer — the company that effectively invented the commercial firewall and that single-handedly anchored the Israeli cybersecurity industry as an institutional category. Profitable, debt-free, conservatively run, and quietly compounding through every cyber cycle. Check Point's enduring lesson is that the most durable Israeli technology business of the past thirty years is not a high-growth narrative — it is a discipline.
CyberArk Software (Nasdaq: CYBR). Privileged access management — the category for which CyberArk is the global reference — became the second pillar of Israeli cybersecurity at scale. Headquartered in Petah Tikva, listed on Nasdaq in 2014, and in 2025 announced as the target of an approximately twenty-five-billion-dollar acquisition by Palo Alto Networks, the firm founded by Israeli engineer Nir Zuk. The deal, once closed, will be among the largest Israeli technology exits in history and will fold one of the country's flagship public names into a US-listed parent.
Mobileye Global (Nasdaq: MBLY). The Jerusalem-headquartered autonomous-driving pioneer founded by Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram. Acquired by Intel in 2017 for fifteen point two billion dollars, refloated on Nasdaq in 2022, and currently the most quoted Israeli technology brand globally. Mobileye's EyeQ chip is in tens of millions of cars; its long-running bet is that the path to autonomy runs through driver-assistance scale first and robotaxi platforms second. Delaware-incorporated, Israel-operated, and unmistakably Israeli.
monday.com (Nasdaq: MNDY). The Tel Aviv work-management platform that, in its 2021 IPO, listed at six point eight billion dollars — and which has since overtaken its longer-tenured compatriot NICE in market value. Founded by Roy Mann and Eran Zinman, monday is the leading example of the post-2015 Israeli SaaS cohort that built directly to global mid-market demand, bypassed Israel as a customer base, and listed without significant US revenue concentration anxieties. The platform is now a category reference in its own right.
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE). Ra'anana-based. Founded in 1986. The dominant global software platform for customer-experience and financial-crime analytics — and for decades the largest Israeli technology company on US markets. NICE is currently navigating the post-Barak Eilam transition and the strategic question of how a category leader in contact-center software defends itself in an era when AI is restructuring the contact center itself. Still one of the most consequential Israeli enterprise-software franchises in existence.
II. Global brands
The household names of the Israeli internet, the chip stack, and the consumer economy. Most sit in the one-to-ten-billion-dollar band.
Wix.com (Nasdaq: WIX). Tel Aviv's website-building platform — founded in 2006 by Avishai Abrahami, Nadav Abrahami, and Giora Kaplan — is, in audience terms, one of the largest Israeli consumer technology brands in the world. Over 250 million users across 190 countries. The transition from low-code site builder to AI-native publishing tool is now the central strategic question for Wix in 2026.
SolarEdge Technologies (Nasdaq: SEDG). The Herzliya-founded inverter and power-optimizer manufacturer that was, for several years, the most valuable Israeli technology company in cleantech. The 2023–2024 solar downcycle reset SolarEdge's market value dramatically; what remains is a category-leading product line and a company now repositioning around storage and the next solar cycle.
Tower Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TSEM). The Migdal Ha'Emek-headquartered specialty foundry. After the proposed Intel acquisition collapsed in 2023, Tower has continued as an independent business with a global manufacturing footprint and an expanding role in the analog and RF segments that the leading-edge foundries do not prioritize. Israeli industrial silicon at scale.
Taboola (Nasdaq: TBLA). Founded in 2007 by Adam Singolda in Tel Aviv. The largest Israeli-founded business in digital publishing — a content-recommendation network that, across thousands of publisher sites, is one of the dominant non-Google, non-Meta routes to consumer attention on the open web. Taboola's contract with Yahoo, announced in 2022, formalized its role in that ecosystem.
Playtika Holding (Nasdaq: PLTK). Herzliya. Casual and social-casino gaming at scale, with a portfolio that includes Slotomania, Bingo Blitz, and June's Journey. Founded by Robert Antokol and Uri Shahak in 2010, acquired by Caesars in 2011, sold to a Chinese consortium in 2016, and listed on Nasdaq in 2021. The Israeli gaming industry's flagship public company.
Oddity Tech (Nasdaq: ODD). Founded by siblings Oran Holtzman and Shiran Holtzman-Erel. Tel Aviv-based AI-driven beauty platform behind Il Makiage and SpoiledChild. IPO'd in 2023 in one of the strongest debuts of that year. Oddity is the clearest Israeli example of a consumer brand built on a proprietary data and algorithm stack rather than on a heritage retail thesis.
eToro Group (Nasdaq: ETOR). Bnei Brak-headquartered social-trading and multi-asset retail brokerage. Founded in 2007 by Yoni Assia, Ronen Assia, and David Ring. Listed on Nasdaq in May 2025 after a long path to public markets — a meaningful Israeli presence in the global retail-fintech category, and one of the few European-anchored consumer fintech businesses to have reached the US public markets.
Cellebrite DI (Nasdaq: CLBT). Petah Tikva. The global market reference in mobile-device forensic extraction, deployed by law enforcement agencies in over 140 countries. Spun out from a TASE-listed parent and direct-listed on Nasdaq in 2021. Cellebrite sits at the intersection of Israeli cybersecurity engineering and the sovereign-services market — a category in which Israel is structurally over-represented.
III. The operators
The names a sector buyer would know cold and the broader market would not. Each is an outsized presence in a specialist category.
Global-E Online (Nasdaq: GLBE). The Petah Tikva cross-border e-commerce enablement platform. Powers international checkout, localization, and logistics for thousands of consumer brands, including the Shopify Markets Pro relationship announced in 2022. One of the most consequential Israeli infrastructure businesses behind the global retail internet.
Nova (Nasdaq: NVMI). Rehovot. Metrology equipment for semiconductor manufacturing — the precision measurement tools that make leading-edge fabs viable. Nova and its compatriot Camtek are the two Israeli public companies most directly exposed to the global semiconductor capital-equipment cycle, and to the leading-edge demand driven by AI.
Camtek (Nasdaq: CAMT). Migdal Ha'Emek. Automated optical inspection systems for advanced packaging — the bottleneck step in chiplet-based AI accelerators. Camtek is, alongside Nova, one of the cleanest Israeli public-market expressions of the AI-driven semiconductor capital cycle.
InMode (Nasdaq: INMD). Yokneam Illit. Radiofrequency- and laser-based aesthetic medical devices. Founded by Moshe Mizrahy and Michael Kreindel. The Israeli leader in a category — minimally-invasive aesthetics — that has built durable economics from the converging professional and consumer-spending tailwinds of the past decade.
Nayax (Nasdaq: NYAX). Herzliya. Unattended retail payments, telemetry, and management — the platform behind vending machines, car-wash terminals, EV chargers, and other point-of-sale endpoints worldwide. Founded by Yair Nechmad and brothers in 2005. A specialist fintech category in which Israel happens to host the global leader.
Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT). Rosh Ha'Ayin. Industrial digital textile printing systems — the platform behind on-demand apparel manufacturing for major global brands and marketplaces. Founded in 2002. Kornit sits at the operating intersection of Israeli industrial engineering and the structural shift to single-piece manufacturing in apparel.
Coda
These twenty are not a ranking of merit. They are a description of the present: which Israeli companies, today, occupy the most market capitalization, the most public attention, and the most strategic relevance on Nasdaq. The remaining eighty-four are documented in the full Olam directory — sortable by sector, ticker, market capitalization, and Israeli nexus, with filters for cybersecurity, biotech, defense, and software. As deals close, listings move, and new IPOs land, both records will be revised. The directory is the living spine; this twenty is the present-tense flagship.
Update — June 2026. All twenty Tier A entity profiles are now live on the Olam, scheduled across June and July 2026. Each name above links to its institutional profile: company snapshot, founding architecture, strategic posture, watch points, and primary sources. The Olam Architects series — the twenty Israeli founders behind these companies and the broader Israeli industrial economy — runs in parallel through late June and July. The Tier B Israeli Nasdaq cohort, the NYSE-listed Israeli set, and the defense-and-intelligence buildout follow across August and September. The franchise is now live as a complete institutional record.
The Olam Editorial Team
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