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Jul 2, 2026, 10:36 PM

Israeli Hedge Funds Need Prime Brokerage to Succeed

Like Levi’s 501 jeans to the Israeli teen of the 1980s, prime brokerage is that rare commodity in Israel that any knowledgeable Israeli portfolio manager covets. It’s time to import prime brokerage wholesale so that the industry overall can...

Jul 2, 2026, 8:38 PM

I Left the US to Build a Business in Israel. Here’s What Nobody Warned Me About

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When I boarded a flight from South Africa back to Israel in 2019, I had no grand plan. I'd spent almost a year as a digital nomad, testing whether I could run my web design studio from anywhere in...

Jul 2, 2026, 3:17 PM

Trump Opened Pandora’s Box in Iran. Who Can Close It Now?

On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel opened Operation Epic Fury against Iran. Weeks earlier, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, had warned President Trump in several briefings that Tehran could answer...

Jun 25, 2026, 3:39 AM

Why Google and Meta Spent $1B+ on Israeli Startup

Google, Meta, Unity, and Moloco spend their days trying to take advertising dollars away from each other. This week they did something that makes no competitive sense: they collectively wired more than $1 billion into a single Israeli company,...

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Jun 20, 2026, 11:05 PM

Russia’s Digital Ruble: A Warning for Israelis with Russian Ties

The Bank of Russia has announced the mass rollout of what it calls the “digital ruble” from September 1, 2026. From that date, Russia’s largest banks are expected to be the first to give clients the ability to use...

Jun 20, 2026, 10:23 AM

The Power of Self-Selection

Perhaps self-selection is one of the most overlooked forces in human history. Photo: Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out for photographer Arthur Sasse after his 72nd birthday party on March 14, 1951. Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

The Hidden Force Behind Success Why are Jews disproportionately represented among Nobel Prize winners, scientists, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals? Why did America become the world’s dominant economic and technological power? Why did Israel transform itself from a poor, newly established state into one...

Jun 16, 2026, 5:28 PM

Weapons vs. Welfare: Why Our Defense Budgets Are Sabotaging Our Climate Survival

Climate Survival

We live in a world obsessed with “hard security.” We measure a nation’s safety by the size of its defense budget, the sophistication of its arsenals, and its capacity to project force. Yet, in the Anthropocene—an era defined by...

Jun 16, 2026, 6:51 AM

How Powerful Is AI Now? Ask Washington

Earlier this month, the payments company Stripe took a fifty-million-line codebase, the kind of sprawling, decades-deep software that a team of engineers would normally spend two months rewriting by hand, and migrated the entire thing in a single day....

Jun 15, 2026, 4:26 AM

Israel’s AI Inventing Worlds Real-Time Gets $300M

A world in the making. Illustration created with AI.

There is a game you can play right now in which not one line of the game was ever written. No designer placed the trees. No programmer coded the physics or the way the light falls on the grass....

Jun 11, 2026, 10:12 PM

Being Railroaded in Petach Tikva

My junior high school class day trip from suburban Philadelphia to Washington, DC was a very interesting and enjoyable venture for all of us. We boarded the buses very early in the morning in front of my junior high...

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