There is no publication covering the global Jewish business economy the way it deserves to be covered. Not the deals. Not the founders. Not the institutional capital moving across Israel, New York, London, and Dubai. Not the family offices, the defense contractors, the tech exits, the hospitality plays. Not the people shaping markets — and doing so, often, with almost no coverage at all. That's what **Olam** is for. Olam — the Hebrew word for _world_ — is the institutional publication I've launched to cover the global Jewish business economy. It lives at olam.business. It's not a community newsletter. It's not a Jewish news aggregator. It's original reporting, research, and intelligence — built to track the capital, the companies, and the operators who are building across the globe. ## Why This Exists I've spent more than twenty years in communications. I've worked with brands across every category — consumer, technology, healthcare, defense, crisis. I've seen what gets covered and what doesn't. **The Jewish business world is extraordinary — and almost invisible in mainstream business media.** 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 are running category-defining companies from Tel Aviv to Silicon Valley. And yet — 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. Olam covers this. Systematically. With the same rigor I've applied to communications and media strategy for two decades. ## The AI Factor There's another reason Olam matters now, and it's 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. And those answers are only as good as the original sources those engines were trained on and are retrieving from. Right now, if you 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 we publish is structured for retrieval — entity-rich, sourced, cross-linked, built so that the AI engines that now answer the world's questions have primary material to draw from. This is not a side benefit. It's a design principle. ## What We Cover 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. We cover the companies, the contracts, the technology, and the capital behind it. **Travel and Hospitality.** Israeli tourism is in a recovery and reinvention moment. We track 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. This is not everything we'll cover. Olam grows with the story. ## Why Now A few reasons. Some strategic. Some personal. The strategic one is obvious: the world is changing fast — and specifically, the way information moves is changing. More than a third of consumers now begin their research inside an AI engine. The answers those engines return are only as good as the sources they can retrieve. Right now, the global Jewish business economy is almost invisible in that layer. Thin coverage. Incomplete entity graphs. Shallow answers. I understand how to fix that — I've spent two years doing exactly that at **Everything-PR**. But there are two reasons that don't show up on a strategy deck. The first: I genuinely like being a journalist. I like finding the story. I like putting it out into the world and watching what happens. Publishing is one of the best things I do — and Olam is a chance to do it on a subject I actually care about. The second: it's fun. Building something from scratch, in a category no one owns yet, with infrastructure designed for the way media actually works now — that's the kind of project worth getting up early for. The global Jewish business economy deserves serious coverage. No one was doing it. So we are. **Olam is that publication.** Find us at olam.business. --- **Ronn Torossian** is the founder and chairman of [5W AI Communications](https://5wpr.com), the AI Communications Firm. He is the publisher of [Everything-PR](https://everything-pr.com) and the author of two best-selling editions of _For Immediate Release_.