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in 2019 raked in 50% of all funding Israeli startups in the digital health and football fan Abramovich received woman), and Teddy Sagi, founder of
raised. space raised 32% more in 2019 than Israeli citizenship in May 2019, but the gambling software company Play-
Over the course of the last decade, the year before. That amounts to $662 Forbes still lists him as Russian. tech and owner of London’s Camden
128 megadeals of more than $50 mil- million across 69 deals, according to Shipping magnate Eyal Ofer Market, is worth $3.1 billion.

lion each were concluded, totaling Start-Up Nation Central. topped Forbes’ official list of richest Brian Blum has been a journalist and

$12 billion. Israel is in a good position to capi- Israelis, with $9.4 billion. His brother, high-tech entrepreneur for over 20
Tourism talize on digital health innovation: All Idan Ofer, who prior to his failed in- years. He combines this expertise for
It wasn’t just technology records that Israeli citizens are required to join one vestment in Israeli electric car company ISRAEL21c as he writes about hot new
were broken in 2019. Israel welcomed of the country’s four HMOs, and Israel Better Place held the title of wealthiest local startups, pharmaceutical ad-
4.55 million tourists – its largest num- has long been a pioneer in digitizing Israeli, is now in fourth place with $4.7 vances, scientifi c discoveries, culture,
ber yet. The 2019 figure was 11% high- patient records – almost 98% of them billion. the arts and daily life in Israel. He

er than in 2018. are now online. Industrialist Stef Wertheimer is loves hiking the country with his fam-
Tourism is a huge source of rev- Moreover, in 2018, the Israeli gov- worth $5.7 billion, according to Forbes, ily (and blogging about it). Originally
enue for the country, injecting ap- ernment launched a five-year $264 businesswoman Shari Arison has $5 from California, he lives in Jerusalem

proximately 23 billion shekels into the million plan to provide startups access billion (she’s also Israel’s wealthiest with his wife and three children.
economy, the Tourism Ministry said. to the HMOs’ databases.
Tourism has jumped since the Eu- Some 580 digital health companies
ropean “Open Skies Agreement” has were operating in Israel in 2019, double
made it much more competitive for the number at the beginning of the de-

budget airlines to fly into and out of cade. Twenty-six percent are in the dig-
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