Founders & Companies · Jun 15, 2026
Eliezer Fishman: The Five-Billion-Shekel CollapseEliezer Fishman built one of Israel's largest pyramidal empires — Industrial Buildings, Jerusalem Economy, Mega, stakes in Yedioth and Globes — and co…
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Delta Galil: The $2.1B Israeli Apparel Giant
Delta Galil Industries (TASE: DELG): founded 1975 in Israel. $2.12B revenue 2025. 25,000 employees. CEO Isaac Dabah holds 49%. Manufactures for the world's biggest apparel brands.
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.
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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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Founders & Companies · Jun 8, 2026
Nvidia's Kiryat Tivon CampusNvidia plans a 160,000-square-meter campus in Kiryat Tivon with up to 10,000 employees. If it proceeds, a $4.5T AI infrastructure company becomes Isra…
Founders & Companies · Jun 19, 2026
Shari Arison: The Hapoalim HeiressFor 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…
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Lev Leviev: De Beers, Africa Israel, and the CollapseThe Soviet-Uzbek teenager who arrived in Israel in 1971, broke the De Beers Russian monopoly, built Africa Israel into a globally exposed conglomerate…
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The Borderless DefendantFrom Batumi airport to a €50 million arrest in Rome, European prosecutors are reshaping the legal risk profile of Israelis abroad — and a Tel Aviv att…
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The Israeli Adtech Cluster 2026IronSource, Taboola, Outbrain, AppsFlyer, Yotpo, Singular, Perion, Innovid — and the 8200 commercial talent graph behind them. The Olam map.
Founders & Companies · Jun 7, 2026
NVIDIA Israel: The Mellanox LegacyNVIDIA's largest engineering operation outside the United States. ~5,000 employees across seven Israeli R&D centers. Runs through the 2019 Mellanox ac…
Founders & Companies · Jul 31, 2026
SodaStream: From London to a $3.2B PepsiCo ExitSodaStream: founded 1903 in London, acquired by Israel's Soda-Club in 1998, taken public on Nasdaq in 2010, sold to PepsiCo in 2018 for $3.2 billion.…
Founders & Companies · Jun 26, 2026
Sami Sagol: Keter Plastics FounderBuilt Keter Plastics from a Jaffa workshop into a global resin-products leader. Sold 80% to BC Partners and PSP Investments in 2016 for $1.7B. Globes…