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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

It’s the second week in a row in which the WYNDEX is rising over 1%, beating both S&P and NASDAQ. This week we’re at a 2.19% increase for the Wyndex, compared to 1.33% for S&P and 0.71% for the NASDAQ. Etoro leads the pack with 14.62%, in anticipation for a product update which is garnering a lot of attention. Word around the street (and retail investor forums) is that the recent GENIUS Act is about to fuel significant growth for the crypto friendly product.

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

• Intel’s continued decline: The semiconductor company reported earnings July 24, and while the company beat analyst expectations on quarterly revenue, it also announced even more cost cutting efforts: it’s in the process of cutting 15% of its workforce, canceling projects across the globe, and now it looks like it will also spin off its networking unit. None of this bodes well for Intel’s activities in Israel, where it’s still one of the largest tech employers.
• New report on how desalination is critical to the Gulf’s future; could Israel play a role here? An interesting article from the Atlantic Council came across our radar last week, all about how the Gulf states’ future (or at least their ability to truly diversify their economies by leaning into tech and AI) could rely on their ability to develop large-scale desalination capabilities + marry these with their data center buildouts. We talk about Israel’s desalination “blueprint” and if/how it could apply to the Gulf.

🔎And our Long Play today is an interview with Nir Hirschmann Rub, CEO of the Crypto, Blockchain, Web 3.0 Companies Forum. On the heels of “Crypto Week” in the U.S., we talk about the state of crypto in Israel… and some of the unique challenges & opportunities the industry faces in the country.

📅 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.

⚖️ 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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📈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:

1. $7 billion in direct damages from the October 7, 2023 invasion
2. >300,000 reservists approved for conscription by the Israeli government
3. 68,500 residents displaced from the North
4. 80%, the drop in tourism to Israel when comparing Dec 2023 to Dec 2022
5. 23%, the drop in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in the month following Oct 7
6. Q1 2024, when the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange exceeded pre-war levels
7. $32 billion, Google’s acquisition of Israeli-founded cybersecurity company Wiz
8. $12 billion additional rise in military budget coming out of the Iran war
9. 1.3 billion shekels, cost of damages and displacement from the Iran war
10. 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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📈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

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.

⚖️ 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

Theme Music by

MIDNIGHT GENERATION