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אבישי אברהמי מנכ"ל WIX וויקס

Israeli tech’s day of reckoning

31.05.26|Sophie Shulman
Why layoffs at Wix, Amdocs, Rapyd, SentinelOne and others may signal a fundamental shift in the sector. 
אסף רפפורט ממייסדי וויז WIZ

Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport: “AI creates disruption, but also opportunity. That is true for Wix too.”

27.05.26|CTech, Ynet
The Wiz founder says the AI revolution will force companies to reinvent themselves, argues Israel is falling behind in artificial intelligence, and calls Google’s $32 billion acquisition of Wiz a major vote of confidence in the country during wartime. 
זאב פרבמן מייסד לייטריקס Lightricks

Lightricks preparing new layoffs as AI reshapes company structure

27.05.26|Meir Orbach, Sophie Shulman
Jerusalem-based unicorn expected to cut dozens of jobs amid organizational overhaul. 
נשיא ארה"ב דונלד טראמפ

What makes a Trump post ‘Trumpian’? AI now has an answer

26.05.26|CTech
Model trained on 41,000 tweets identifies unusual wording and stylistic anomalies.
אבישי אברהמי מנכ"ל ומייסד חברת Wix

Wix’s historic cuts could become a turning point for Israeli high-tech

26.05.26|Sophie Shulman
The layoffs highlight how AI is beginning to reshape not only software products, but the economics of tech employment itself. 
campus wix קמפוס וויקס גלילות

Base44 is booming. So why is Wix collapsing?

25.05.26|Sophie Shulman
The startup Wix bought to secure its AI future is growing at breakneck speed, but the costs are shaking investor confidence.
Yess founders

Amdocs expands AI ambitions through acquisition of Israeli startup Yess

25.05.26|CTech
The telecom software giant is integrating autonomous AI agents into its core operations platform. 
Tal Abuloff Alon Cinnamon

Project Glasswing by Anthropic didn't just find the bugs. It also found the real vulnerability in cybersecurity.

24.05.26|Alon Cinamon
By the end of last week, Anthropic published an update on Project Glasswing that most people missed. I think it's one of the most consequential signals in cybersecurity in years - and the headline numbers are only half the story. 
Yair Snir and Barrel Kfir

The giant models threaten to wipe out classic cybersecurity companies. Who will survive the revolution?

24.05.26|Yair Snir, Barrel Kfir
The cybersecurity-model announcements from OpenAI and Anthropic are not merely a threat to existing startups. They are the opening shot of a critical shift, from a world of vulnerability detection to one of autonomous remediation and prevention. 
שגיא אליהו מייסד טונקין Tonkean

Coupa acquires Israeli AI startup Tonkean in deal estimated at hundreds of millions of dollars

22.05.26|Meir Orbach
Acquisition strengthens Coupa’s push to build autonomous AI systems for procurement and enterprise operations.
Lisya Bahar Manoah Elron Ventures

From the automotive industry to the battlefield: Why automotive startups are turning to defense

21.05.26|Lisya Bahar Manoah
As funding slows and autonomy timelines slip, automotive startups are increasingly turning to defense markets as a parallel path to growth, reshaping the future of mobility and deep-tech investment.
משרדי אינטואיט

Intuit layoffs reach Israel as AI push reshapes global workforce

21.05.26|CTech
The financial software giant is cutting 3,000 jobs worldwide, with its 500-person Israeli R&D center also affected amid a broader restructuring around artificial intelligence.
מימין דניאל זהבי מנכ"ל ו מיכאל אסטרין CTO מייסדי Arito

Iranian-born Israeli entrepreneur raises $6 million for AI finance startup Arito

20.05.26|Meir Orbach
Daniel Zahavi, who sold his first company to Comcast, launches a new startup with Levl co-founder Michael Estrin, focused on AI tools for finance teams.
מייסדי טרייבל מימין יואב קולודנר ליאור סידי ו יקיר דניאל

Former Salesforce, Wix and Spot.io executives raise $10 million for enterprise AI agent platform Tribal

20.05.26|Meir Orbach
Team8-backed startup aims to bring agentic AI into complex organizational environments.
Index Ventures partner Juriaan Duizendstraal.

“Every conflict, every cycle of adversity, seems to produce a hungrier generation of Israeli founders”

20.05.26|Zachy Hennessey
Index Ventures partner Juriaan Duizendstraal joined CTech for its 2026 International VC Survey.
מוסף עצמאות מנהלים מייסדי Irregular מייסדי  Unframe מימין עדי עזריה , שי לוי לריסה שניידר

AI startup Unframe raises $50 million Series B after surpassing $100 million in contracts within a year

19.05.26|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli startup, founded by former Noname Security executives, says it has signed more than $100 million in multi-year enterprise AI contracts as companies race to move AI projects from pilot stages into full-scale deployment.
גבריאל סויסא מייסד שותף ב-Fundamental

AI unicorn Fundamental expands Israel operations as it scales enterprise AI push

19.05.26|Meir Orbach
The startup is recruiting dozens of engineers in Tel Aviv to expand NEXUS platform.
אלון מאסק סם אלטמן OpenAI

OpenAI wins court fight as Musk’s $150 billion claim falls short

18.05.26|CTech, Reuters
Trial offered a rare look inside the company behind ChatGPT as it races toward a possible trillion-dollar valuation.
Canaan general partner Joydeep Bhattacharyya.

“The Israeli startups that will win are the ones building focused AI”

18.05.26|Zachy Hennessey
Canaan general partner Joydeep Bhattacharyya joined CTech for its 2026 International VC Survey.
אילון מאסק איש עסקים יזם משקיע ומשפיען

Elon Musk: “Israel is number one in the world by far in innovation per capita”

18.05.26|Hofit Cohen Ulay
In a video address to the Smart Mobility Summit in Tel Aviv, Musk said “I’m a huge admirer of the innovation coming out of Israel. Honestly, I think it’s objectively true that Israel punches far above its weight for population.”