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**What’s Your Number?**

Hosted by Yonatan Adiri and Yael Wissner-Levy, What’s Your Number? is a weekly podcast from Ark Media, looking at the Israeli economy through a global lens.

Latest Episodes:

Israel's War-Economy in 10 Numbers Jul 23, 2025

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

The WYNDEX is back in the green, up 1.99% on the week, beating the S&P500 by 1.32% and the NASDAQ by 0.52%. We’re seeing most of the losses from last week regained, with big winners being Lemonade with a strong recovery (+10%) and Palo Alto (+4.48%).

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

Netanyahu’s government may be safe for now, but key budget dynamics are on the line: The Defense administration is asking for an additional $12 billion aiming at a $42 billion budget (8% of GDP, 20%+ of budget!).
Over in the U.S., Congress approves first major crypto legislation; could Israel be next? The landmark “Genius Act” has been signed into law, establishing a federal framework for stablecoins progress. Could similar legislation happen in Israel?

🔎And our Long Play today is a 10-part look back at the war in numbers:

$7 billion in direct damages from the October 7, 2023 invasion
>300,000 reservists approved for conscription by the Israeli government
68,500 residents displaced from the North
80%, the drop in tourism to Israel when comparing Dec 2023 to Dec 2022
23%, the drop in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in the month following Oct 7
Q1 2024, when the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange exceeded pre-war levels
$32 billion, Google’s acquisition of Israeli-founded cybersecurity company Wiz
$12 billion additional rise in military budget coming out of the Iran war
1.3 billion shekels, cost of damages and displacement from the Iran war
Multiple downgrades by the rating agencies - and how they got it wrong in the end

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

What’s Your Number? is hosted from Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley by Yonatan Adiri — Israeli entrepreneur and former advisor to President Shimon Peres — and Michal Lev-Ram, Israeli-born Silicon Valley-based tech journalist and contributing editor at Fortune. Together, they unpack the headlines, trends, and data driving Israel’s economy and its future.

(00:00) Intro

(03:04) WYNDEX Update

(04:33) Big Shorts

(12:06) Long Play

(32:00) Words of the Week

(33:15) Outro

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer

MICHAL LEV-RAM - Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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Iran vs Cancer Research Jul 16, 2025

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

A red week for the WYNDEX, losing 5.85% on the week starting July 7th. After a few consecutive weeks in the green we saw the WYNDEX entering correction territory with losses across most equities.

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

United is back, baby: The airline, which has historically offered more flights to Israel than any other US-based airline, says it will resume daily nonstop flights July 21 - ten days ahead of schedule.
Israel and the US sign a “memorandum of understanding” for AI and ENERGY collaboration: The agreement is designed to advance cooperation in applying AI to strengthening the energy grids in Israel and the US, and to encourage research, innovation and the development of joint policies.

🔎And our Long Play today is an interview with Liran Shlush, Associate Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Dept. of Molecular cell biology in Rehovot. Liran’s lab was in the building that received a direct hit from an Iranian missile in mid June. Just days after, he and his research partner Amos Tanay published a study that could have huge implications for early detection of leukemia. We talk to Liran about what happened, his research, and the state of Israeli collaboration with other global institutes.

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer

MICHAL LEV-RAM - Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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What's up with the WYNDEX? Jul 09, 2025

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

Another week when all three are in the green: NASDAQ at 1.18%, S&P at 1.39% and WYNDEX at 1.78%. The biggest WYNDEX mover on the green, again, is SolarEdge. This week the company saw a 39.9% increase, mainly attributed to the passing of the Big Beautiful Bill.

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

Semiconductor giant Nvidia is planning to build out a multibillion dollar tech campus in Northern Israel
Israel’s central bank chooses to hold interest rates at 4.5% - for now

🔎And our Long Play today is all about the WYNDEX. How and why did we create our very own index of Israel-based and Israeli-founded public companies? What is our methodology? And what can the WYNDEX tell us about the strengths - and weaknesses - of the Israeli economy? We answer these questions and more in this week’s episode.

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer

MICHAL LEV-RAM - Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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Not A Pie In The Sky: Food Delivery Drones Are Real! Jul 02, 2025

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

WYNDEX is up 3.3% on the week of June 23-28. Almost fully correlated with the S&P 500 and under performing the NASDAQ by 1%. Notable movers on the green are autonomous car giant MobilEye with over 20% growth in one week and semiconductor company Nova Measurements with more than 15% growth.

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

The Israeli defense administration seeks additional budget in order to maintain its posture in Gaza, plan for the unfolding dynamics in Iran and more. But is an even bigger budget the answer?
Israeli printing technology pioneer Landa Nano files for court protection. The company, founded by entrepreneur and inventor Benny Landa, had raised $1.3B to make “nano-printing” a reality.

🔎And our Long Play today:

Talking drones with Yariv Bash, cofounder and CEO of FlyTrex, an Israeli drone delivery platform which just announced a service launch with DoorDash in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer

MICHAL LEV-RAM - Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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What Role Does Israel Play in the AI Arms Race? Jun 26, 2025

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

NASDAQ, S&P and WYNDEX were all in the green, with our WYNDEX trailing roughly 0.55% behind both with 1.67, 1.6 and 1.07% for the WYNDEX.

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

Seven-year-old digital payment company Melio has been acquired by SMB giant XERO, a deal that was negotiated from the safe room during the Israel-Iran conflict.
Spain is asking for “immediate” suspension of the EU “Association Agreement” with Israel + to impose an arms embargo on Israel, but this is unlikely to happen because of lack of support from other key EU countries like Italy and Germany.

🔎And our Long Play today is an interview with AI expert and longtime entrepreneur Yoav Shoham, all about what Israel’s role is–and could be–in the global AI arms race.

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer

MICHAL LEV-RAM - Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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Why is Israel’s stock market rising? Jun 19, 2025

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

Last week (June 9-14th) we saw a market correction for both NASDAQ and S&P. WYNDEX was in the red as well. While S&P shed 1.08% and NASDAQ 0.85%. WYNDEX shed 1.54%

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

Israeli defense contractors (literally) fenced off at Paris Air Show
200,000 Israelis stranded abroad; when & how will they get home?
Tech deal: Wix acquires AI-powered no-code platform Base44 for $80m

🔎And our Long Play today is a dive into why Israel’s stock market is rising - plus other positive economic indicators we’re seeing - despite the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer

MICHAL LEV-RAM - Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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(Real) Jewish Space Lasers - with Oded Ben-David Jun 11, 2025

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

The WYNDEX is up 3.8%, overperforming the S&P by 2.04% and NASDAQ by 1.35%. (The WYNDEX is our very own index, made up of 51 Israel-based and/or Israeli-founded companies that trade on American stock exchanges.)

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

Israel’s Ministry of Finance cuts growth projections
eBay is shutting down its R&D center in Israel
Lufthansa plans to “gradually” restart flights in and out of Tel Aviv

🔎And our Long Play today is an interview with Oded Ben David, the chief technology officer at ELOP, the electro-optical division of Elbit Systems, all about Israel’s newly declassified (and low-cost) Iron Beam aerial defense system.

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer

MICHAL LEV-RAM - Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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Saudi Arabia Part 2: Is the Window for Normalization Narrowing? May 28, 2025

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🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

The One Big Beautiful bill passes the House… implications for Israel?
EU threats on freezing “Association Agreement” with Israel and “Horizon 2020” academic funding

🔎And our Long Play today is on Saudi Arabia Part 2: Is the Window for Normalization Narrowing?

📅 New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer & Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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Who's In (and Who's Out) of the U.S.-Saudi Deal May 21, 2025

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🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

Israeli inflation rises 1.1% in the month of April
Moody’s downgrades the U.S.’s credit rating
Are we seeing signs of an AI slowdown?

🔎And our Long Play today is on Who's in (and Who's Out) of the U.S.-Saudi Deal

📅New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer & Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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Israel’s Path to (Greater) Energy Independence May 14, 2025

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🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

How a Saudi-American deal impacts Israel
A mega AI fundraise - can Israeli tech build an OpenAI competitor?

🔎And our Long Play today is Israel’s Path to (Greater) Energy Independence

📅New episodes drop every Wednesday

⚖️ LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This podcast offers general business and economic information and is not a comprehensive summary for investment decisions. It does not recommend or solicit any investment strategy or security.

🎧 CREDITS:

ILAN BENATAR - Producer & Editor

MARTIN HUERGO - Sound Editor

GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research

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