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Israel’s economic resilience: Growth and investment despite years of war | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · 🇮🇱 public Israel · · 855 words · By SHERWIN POMERANTZ
Defense Industry Growth International Relations and Trade Israeli Economic Resilience
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One of the downsides, among many, of living in a country involved in perpetual wars as we here seem to be, is that it is easy to forget there are thousands of other things going on simultaneously that are positive, worthy of praise, and even a cause for…

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Topics 3

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One of the downsides, among many, of living in a country involved in perpetual wars as we here seem to be, is that it is easy to forget there are thousands of other things going on simultaneously that are positive, worthy of praise, and even a cause for…

Why it matters

Much of it seems counterintuitive, but then again, our whole success here often appears to be counterintuitive.

Common ground

An item appeared recently in C-TECH, a dedicated English-language technology and start-up news channel published by the financial daily Calcalist, about Israeli defense giant Elbit.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Flag-Waving, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-905668

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Flag-Waving 80% confidence
Exploiting patriotic or group feelings to justify or promote an action.
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Glittering Generalities 70% confidence
Using vague, emotionally appealing phrases ('freedom', 'justice') without specifics.
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Founded in 2024 by former WalkMe executives, ai.work built an enterprise AI agent platform”
INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
No evidence was found after searching for the founding details of ai.work.
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Claim 2: “Elbit added approximately 2,000 employees over the previous year and plans to recruit another 2,000”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 3: “Founded in 1966 as Elbit Computers Ltd.”
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Wikipedia and other web sources confirm Elbit Systems was founded in 1966, with specific mention of it being formed as Elbit Computers Ltd.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elbit Systems Ltd. is an Israel-based international military technology company and defense contractor. Founded in 1966 by Elron, Elbit Systems is the primary provider of the Israeli military's land-b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Systems
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elron Ventures (formerly Elron Electronic Industries Ltd.) is an Israeli technology holding company based in Tel Aviv; since 1962 the company has been involved in setting up, funding and developing ov…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elron_Ventures
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This list of early third-generation computers, tabulates those computers using monolithic integrated circuits (ICs) as their primary logic elements, starting from small-scale integration CPUs (SSI) to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_third-generation…
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Claim 4: “Israel’s annual GDP is $720b.”
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The provided evidence includes general Wikipedia pages about Israel and lists of GDPs, but none of the snippets contain the specific figure of $720 billion for Israel's annual GDP.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gross domestic product (GDP) is the market value of all final goods and services from a nation in a given year. Countries are sorted by nominal GDP estimates from financial and statistical institution…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of U.S. states and territories by gross domestic product (GDP). This article presents the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and their nominal GDP at current prices. The data s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — GDP (PPP) means gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity. This article includes a list of countries by their forecast estimated GDP (PPP). Countries are sorted by GDP (PPP) forecast e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
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Claim 5: “China’s Tencent is in negotiations to acquire SuperPlay, a top-performing mobile gaming studio, from Israel’s Playtika for an estimated $1-1.5 billion.”
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Multiple sources report Tencent's acquisition of SuperPlay from Playtika, with estimates ranging from $1 billion to $1.5 billion (including earn-outs).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — List of largest media and entertainment mergers and acquisitions is a list of the largest publicly announced mergers, acquisitions, and other major corporate transactions involving companies in the me…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_media_and_ente…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a listing of top 50 largest video game publishers and developers ranked by reported revenue. Tencent is the world's largest video game company, followed by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Xbox…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_video_game_com…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The video game industry has been subject to several mergers and acquisitions, such as Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, which is the most expensive video game industry acquisition of all…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_video_game_mer…
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Claim 6: “Cisco, headquartered in California, made a $150-200 million strategic investment in Israeli cybersecurity start-up Zafran”
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Two sources mention talks for an acquisition valued at $150-200 million, but a third source (Globes) explicitly states that Zafran is not being sold to Cisco, but rather receiving a strategic investment of 'a few million dollars'.
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web search NEUTRAL — A deal valued at $150 million-$200 million would fall well below the company's last fundraising valuation despite backing from Sequoia, Menlo Ventures and Cyberstarts. Tencent in talks to acquire Play…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cisco-talks-buy-israeli-cyber…
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web search NEUTRAL — Exclusive: A deal valued at $150 million-$200 million would fall well below the company's last fundraising valuation despite backing from Sequoia, Menlo Ventures and Cyberstarts.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/by11gqei4zx
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web search NEUTRAL — She said, "Zafran is not being sold to Cisco but is about to make an investment by participating in our financing round." The strategic investment in Zafran is for a few million dollars in the financi…
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-cisco-investing-in-not-ac…
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Claim 7: “Inflation is expected to hover near a stable 2.1%, while the fiscal deficit narrows to roughly 4.2% of GDP.”
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Claim 8: “Singapore’s BandLab Technologies acquired Israel’s Aiode, an AI-powered digital music studio, for tens of millions of dollars.”
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The provided evidence for this claim is completely irrelevant, discussing 'Genie' lifts and Terex rather than BandLab or Aiode.
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web search NEUTRAL — Genie is an American company that manufactures work lifts and platforms used in construction, maintenance, warehouse stocking, and equipment installation. Founded in 1966 by Bud Bushnell, the company …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie_(Terex)
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web search NEUTRAL — 11,988 GENIE Lifts available now! Find new & used GENIE Lifts for sale near you from top models GS1930, GR20, GTH5519, and more at MachineryTrader.com
https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/genie/lift…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 3, 2019 · 3,976 GENIE Boom Lifts available now! Find new & used GENIE Boom Lifts for sale near you from top models S65, S45, S40, and more at MachineryTrader.com
https://www.machinerytrader.com/listings/for-sale/genie/boom…
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Claim 9: “Israel’s economy in 2027 is projected to experience a strong growth rebound of about 4.4% to 5.6%”
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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.
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Claim 10: “Another California firm, Instacart, acquired Arpalus, an Israeli artificial intelligence and computer vision start-up, for an undisclosed sum estimated in the tens of millions of dollars.”
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Multiple sources confirm Instacart acquired Arpalus, with one source specifically citing Calcalist's estimate of 'tens of millions of dollars'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The value of the transaction was not disclosed, but according to Calcalist’s estimate, it is in the tens of millions of dollars. The deal marks Instacart’s first acquisition of an Israeli company. Ful…
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1janyu4ml
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web search NEUTRAL — Acquisition strengthens Instacart's AI capabilities and purpose-built partner technology to improve inventory accuracy for ecommerce fulfillment and in-store operations across its network.
https://finviz.com/news/369123/instacart-acquires-arpalus-to…
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web search NEUTRAL — Instacart has acquired computer vision company Arpalus and will use that firm’s shelf intelligence technology to improve the inventory accuracy of its own.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/acquiring/2026/instacart-acquire…
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Claim 11: “Elbit has an order backlog worth $32 billion”
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Multiple independent web search results explicitly state that Elbit Systems has an order backlog of $32 billion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Elbit Systems Hermes 900 Kochav ("Star") is an Israeli medium-size, multi-payload, medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed for tactical missions. It is a successor to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Hermes_900
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elbit Systems Ltd. is an Israel-based international military technology company and defense contractor. Founded in 1966 by Elron, Elbit Systems is the primary provider of the Israeli military's land-b…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbit_Systems
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — PULS ("Precise & Universal Launching System", formerly known as Lynx MRL) is a multiple rocket launcher developed and manufactured by ELBIT Systems (formerly Israel Military Industries) and used by Is…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PULS_(multiple_rocket_launcher…
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Claim 12: “California’s ServiceNow acquired Israeli start-up ai.work for a reported tens of millions of dollars.”
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No evidence was found after searching for the acquisition of ai.work by ServiceNow.
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Claim 13: “California’s Cribl acquired Israel’s CardinalOps, an AI-native detection engineering start-up, in a deal estimated to be about $100m.”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Cribl acquired CardinalOps for an estimated $100 million.
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web search NEUTRAL — The acquisition reinforces Cribl’s strategy of building an open, vendor-agnostic platform rather than another closed security stack. The company’s platform allows organizations to collect, analyze, mo…
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rk71zhxeml
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web search NEUTRAL — U.S.-based Cribl has acquired Israeli cybersecurity startup CardinalOps, strengthening its AI-powered security platform and expanding its presence in one of the world's leading cyber innovation hubs. …
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ctech-by-calcalist_cribl-acqu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Cribl acquired Israeli detection-engineering startup CardinalOps for an estimated $100 million as it expands from telemetry management into security operations.
https://runtimewire.com/article/cribl-adds-cardinalops-israe…
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