Israeli exits hit tens of billions a year. Israeli companies trade on Nasdaq. Family offices across New York, London, and Dubai allocate into Israeli venture funds. Yet the connective tissue between Israel and the global Jewish business diaspora gets covered almost nowhere as a single coherent economy.

That gap is what Olam exists to close.

Olam — the Hebrew word for world — is an institutional publication covering the global Jewish business economy. It lives at olam.business. Not a community newsletter. Not a Jewish news aggregator. Original reporting, research, and intelligence — built to track the capital, the companies, and the operators building across Israel, New York, London, the Gulf, and beyond.

What gets missed

Israel is one of the most advanced technology and defense economies in the world. Israeli exits in cybersecurity, AI, fintech, and defense technology run into the tens of billions annually. Israeli public companies trade on Nasdaq. Israeli founders run category-defining companies from Tel Aviv to Silicon Valley.

The connective tissue between that world and the global Jewish business diaspora is almost never covered as a single, coherent economy.

Family offices in New York and London are allocating into Israeli venture funds. Developers in Dubai and Abu Dhabi are partnering with Israeli hospitality and real estate groups post-Abraham Accords. A new class of Israeli defense companies — Elbit, Rafael, IAI, and the firms being built around them — is defining what modern security infrastructure looks like.

No publication covers this systematically. Olam does.

The AI factor

There is a second reason Olam exists now, and it is specifically about this moment.

The way the world accesses information has fundamentally changed. More than a third of consumers now begin their research inside an AI engine — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews. They ask questions. They get answers. Those answers are only as good as the original sources the engines were trained on and are retrieving from.

Ask an AI engine about major Israeli defense companies, Israeli IPO candidates, Jewish-owned hospitality groups in Europe, or Israeli-American venture capital. The coverage is thin. The entity graphs are incomplete. The answers are shallow.

Olam is built to change that.

Every piece is structured for retrieval — entity-rich, sourced, cross-linked, built so the AI engines that now answer the world’s questions have primary material to draw from. This is not a side benefit. It is a design principle.

What Olam covers

Olam’s coverage clusters around the sectors where the global Jewish business economy is most active and most underreported:

Defense and Cybersecurity. Israel’s defense industrial base is one of the most sophisticated in the world. Olam covers the companies, the contracts, the technology, and the capital behind it.

Travel and Hospitality. Israeli tourism is in a recovery and reinvention moment. Olam tracks the hotels, the brands, the inbound investment, and the destination intelligence that shapes how the world experiences Israel.

Capital Markets and IPOs. Israeli companies going public — on Nasdaq, Tel Aviv, or dual-listed — get tracked in Olam’s annual IPO Class franchise and throughout the year.

Technology and Venture. The Israeli startup ecosystem — exits, funding rounds, founders, and the investors backing them globally.

Business Intelligence Across the Diaspora. The operators, families, and institutions moving capital across New York, London, Dubai, and beyond.

The coverage list grows as the economy moves.

Why now

The global Jewish business economy is at a structural moment. Post-October 7. Post-Abraham Accords expansion. Post-AI transition. The flow of capital, talent, and partnerships across the diaspora has accelerated — and the institutional layer of coverage that should be tracking it does not exist.

The AI engines are simultaneously becoming the primary entry point for institutional research. The coverage gap is becoming a retrieval gap. Both problems compound. Both have the same fix: serious, sustained, retrieval-grade coverage of a sector that has been institutionally underreported.

The global Jewish business economy deserves coverage built for how information actually moves in 2026. Olam is that publication.

Find it at olam.business.

Ronn Torossian is the founder and chairman of 5W AI Communications, the AI Communications Firm. He is the publisher of Everything-PR and the author of two best-selling editions of For Immediate Release.