Israel Tech Insider

The $400 Drone Bomb and the $19B Defense Export Boom

One Israel is selling the future of warfare. The other is discovering that the future arrived before it was ready.

Jun 3 • Amir Mizroch

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May 2026

Israel’s Startup Squeeze Is a Warning for Dollar-Funded Tech Everywhere

AI is cutting the need for software labor just as the shekel is making Israeli labor more expensive.

May 25 • Amir Mizroch

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Israel Built An Exquisite Defense Industry. Then War Came

The battlefield keeps moving faster than the defense industry's ability to adapt.

May 13 • Amir Mizroch

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April 2026

The War Above The War

Like in Hormuz, Iran's strategy in space is creating leverage.

Apr 26 • Amir Mizroch

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March 2026

Why Israel Can't Build Tech Giants

And is that even the right metric of success?

Mar 30 • Meir Valman

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Inside Israel's Defense Innovation Industrial Base

When the shooting stops, Israel will discover whether it built a defense-tech ecosystem or a wartime production surge.

Mar 23 • Amir Mizroch

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Ask Iran What It's Like To Fight Without AI

And Iran is discovering what it’s like to fight without it

Mar 8 • Amir Mizroch

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January 2026

Pax Silica, or Pax Rhetorica?

A sacred setting, a grand strategy, and zero accountability.

Jan 17 • Amir Mizroch

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Warning: Israeli Tech Is Booming

Israel’s tech sector is generating record value while thinning out the domestic base that sustains it.

Jan 13 • Amir Mizroch

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This Is How the World Ends

Impersonating your enemy and issuing his orders is the Holy Grail of combat

Jan 5 • Amir Mizroch

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The Data Center Goes to War

Napoleon famously remarked that an army marches on its stomach. Today, it marches on its servers.

Jan 2 • Amir Mizroch

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December 2025

2025 Review. 2026 Preview.

Israel was supposed to be isolated by war and politics. Instead, it got more embedded and entangled—technologically, financially, and strategically.

Dec 23, 2025 • Amir Mizroch

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