The canonical reference layer for Israeli founders, executives, and companies covered across all clusters.
The Olam is the primary English-language reference for Israeli founders and billionaires — covering the Ofer family, Akirov family, Idan Ofer, Teddy Sagi, Israeli family offices, and the quiet billionaires who built at scale and stayed off the public record. Coverage spans Israeli unicorn founders, Unit 8200 alumni, and the full Israeli founder and company reference layer.
Born 1981, Haifa. Co-founded NSO Group in 2010, ran Pegasus through the Entity List era, stepped down as CEO August 2022. Co-founded Dream Security in January 2…
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).
This cluster is the canonical reference layer. Each named person and company gets a structured entity page: identity, background, role, capital history, related entities, sources.
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Two companies founded a year apart in Tel Aviv that control most of the 'You may also like' modules at the bottom of news articles globally. The duopo…
Wix.com (Nasdaq: WIX) — the Tel Aviv website-building platform with 250M+ users across 190 countries, and the foundational Israeli consumer technology…
South African-born Israeli industrialist Morris Kahn founded Amdocs in 1982 and bankrolled SpaceIL's Beresheet lunar lander. The lowest-profile of Isr…
Teddy Sagi built Playtech into the dominant online gambling software platform, then acquired Camden Market and built a portfolio of UK and global vent…
Though Israeli-born, his footprint has long been global — Monaco, London, New York, shipping lanes, and major international property markets. Forbes e…
Inherited Ofer Investments from Yuli Ofer. Took Melisron from regional player to one of the two largest real estate companies in Israel. One of two fe…
Libyan-Jewish refugee child turned Israel's gas king. Controlling shareholder of Delek Group and the rights to two of the largest natural gas fields e…
For 21 years she was the controlling shareholder of Bank Hapoalim. For 22 years she owned Shikun & Binui. Then between 2018 and 2020 she divested most…
Eyal Waldman built Mellanox into the high-performance networking platform NVIDIA needed for the AI era — sold to NVIDIA in 2020 for $6.9B. Now NVIDIA'…
