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Israeli Real Economy · Aug 21, 2026

Yossi Cohen, Former Mossad Chief, Named SoftBank Advisor

Yossi Cohen, Israel's Mossad chief from 2016 to 2021, was promoted to strategic advisor at SoftBank, gaining a new mandate over AI and chip investments.

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Tamar, Leviathan, Karish, the gas export architecture

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Sorek-2 and the Global SWRO Cost Curve
IDE Technologies built the world's lowest-unit-cost large-scale desalination plant at Sorek. Sorek-2 extends the curve.…
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 com…
Enlight and the Israeli Developer Going Global
Enlight Renewable Energy is the largest Israeli pure-play renewables developer and the cleanest read on how Israeli deve…
The Sassoon and Kadoorie Trading Houses: Baghdad to Bombay to Shanghai
Netafim and the Precision Irrigation Export
Netafim is the largest single Israeli agritech export by revenue and the institutional anchor of the global drip-irrigat…
The Kadoorie Family and Modern Hong Kong Commerce: From Baghdad to Shanghai to the Modern Conglomerate
IDE and the Desalination Stack
IDE Technologies and the network of Israeli seawater reverse-osmosis plants are the working example of climate-adaptatio…
Inside Israel's Industrial Backbone: Chemicals, Energy, Shipping, and the Conglomerate Layer
Leviathan and Tamar: The Israeli Natural Gas Economy and the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Reorganization
David Sassoon and the Bombay Trading Firm: The Baghdad-to-Mumbai Commercial Origin
1492: The Iberian Expulsion and the Sephardic Merchant Diaspora

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Israeli Real Economy · Jun 1, 2026

Lab-Grown Diamonds Broke Israeli Cutting

Israeli cutting employment has fallen from a 1970s peak of well above 15,000 to under 1,000 today. Lab-grown diamond prices have collapsed roughly 70…

Israeli Real Economy · May 31, 2026

Dubai Stole the Diamond Trade

Dubai did not stumble into being the world's largest rough diamond hub. The UAE Cabinet engineered the win — zero VAT, free-zone framework, banking, b…

Israeli Real Economy · May 31, 2026

Israeli Diamonds: Ramat Gan to Antwerp

Israel built the world's largest diamond bourse complex — then watched the cutting industry migrate to India. What remained: the finance layer, the fa…

Israeli Real Economy · Jun 8, 2026

The Haredi Supermarket That Started Selling Kia Cars Next to the Challah

Osher Ad started selling Kia Sportage vehicles inside its supermarkets. The model worked. Now Rami Levy, SPAR and other Israeli retail chains are raci…

Israeli Real Economy · May 28, 2026

Israel Reuses 90% of Wastewater

Desalination gets the headlines. Wastewater reuse is the quieter, cheaper engine of Israel's water surplus — and the bigger global opportunity.

Israeli Real Economy · May 28, 2026

The $52 Billion Question

The ultra-Orthodox are Israel's fastest-growing population and its largest untapped economic resource. The IDI puts the cost of non-integration above…