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2026-01-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

More than 69,000 Israelis left Israel in 2025, as population reached 10.18 million

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1 Write home re life among hyper-humanitarian Gentiles.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2026-01-01 04:49|| 2026-01-01 04:49|| Front Page Top

2 in the recent past there were lots of tech jobs outside of Israel that pay 4x what the Israeli tech earns and lots of Israelis in tech companies in NY, Cal, Utah, Fl, Tx

Posted by Lord Garth 2026-01-01 18:23|| 2026-01-01 18:23|| Front Page Top

3 Israel Times today — I wasn’t going to post it anyway, being as it’s a bit too far from our stated concerns here at Rantburg, though clearly some of us are interested in the subject ;-)

Iranian missiles weren’t the only things booming in Tel Aviv in 2025.

Despite war and domestic turmoil, the year that ended Wednesday saw the value of tech merger and acquisition tech deals reach record heights as foreign investors scooped up Israeli innovation and talent, and the Tel Aviv stock exchange soar again and again to new all-time highs, outperforming global peers.

With the security situation seemingly calmed, investors and entrepreneurs in the tech space are much more optimistic for the year ahead than they were 12 months ago, according to a survey presented at a recent tech conference organized by venture capital firm Fusion and the Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer Baratz law firm.

The poll of 200 VCs, angel investors, and entrepreneurs conducted by Fusion found that only 6 percent of respondents thought political and security uncertainty posed the biggest challenge for investors in Israel, down from 43% in last year’s survey. Asked about Israel’s future, 74.5% of respondents said they were optimistic, compared to 57% the previous year.

Among conference participants, though, the mood was decidedly less sanguine, with the apparent exodus of startup talent and business — stemming from those supposedly dissipating political and security concerns — fueling worries for the future of the tech sector, Israel’s main economic driver.

The dissonance reflected what appears to be an increasing lack of synchronicity between Israel at large and its tech ecosystem, which has seen unprecedented gains even as the nation’s economy has been stunted by wartime call-ups, airport-shuttering missile attacks and geopolitical isolation.

Posted by trailing wife 2026-01-01 19:27|| 2026-01-01 19:27|| Front Page Top

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