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Wissotzky Tea: Supplier to the Russian Tsar, Israel's 175-Year-Old Family BrandLead story
Agriculture & Food Tech · Aug 10, 2026

Wissotzky Tea: Supplier to the Russian Tsar, Israel's 175-Year-Old Family Brand

Founded 1849 in Moscow. Tsar's tea supplier. Largest tea firm in the Russian Empire. Survived revolution, Holocaust, rebuilt in Tel Aviv 1936. 76% of the Israeli tea market ($68M). 200+ blends. Declared a monopoly in gre…

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Strauss Group: Israeli Food and Beverage
Agriculture & Food Tech · May 26, 2026
Strauss Group: Israeli Food and Beverage

Strauss Group (TASE: STRS) anchors the Israeli food-and-beverage category. Three segments: Strauss Coffee (Brazil, Europe, Israel), Strauss Israel (da…

Strauss Coffee: A Top-Five Global Coffee Company
Agriculture & Food Tech · Jun 21, 2026
Strauss Coffee: A Top-Five Global Coffee Company

Três Corações, Brazil dominance, the Strauss family arc, and the Eastern European operations that make Strauss Coffee a top-five global coffee company…

Israeli Cultivated Meat After the Aleph Approval
Agriculture & Food Tech · May 26, 2026
Israeli Cultivated Meat After the Aleph Approval

Israel's 2024 regulatory approval for Aleph Farms' cultivated beef was a landmark for the category globally. Whether commercial scale follows is the o…

Cultivated Meat's Scale Problem After the Reset
Agriculture & Food Tech · Jun 3, 2026
Cultivated Meat's Scale Problem After the Reset

Israel made the world's first cultivated-meat regulatory history — and watched its best-funded cultivated-meat company shut down. Both facts are the s…

Why a Food Importer Built a Protein Industry
Agriculture & Food Tech · Jun 12, 2026
Why a Food Importer Built a Protein Industry

Israel can't feed itself from its own land. That weakness, not idealism, is why it built a food-tech industry — and why the state treats it as strateg…