{"id":598667,"date":"2026-08-28T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598667\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T13:34:13","slug":"israels-stock-market-thrives-on-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598667\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s stock market thrives on the war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  JVL Introduction<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s stock exchange had more than doubled since October 7th \u2013 in less than three years.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone was predicting its collapse and indeed, in the early days of the war, the economy plummeted.<\/p>\n<p>Catastrophe appeared to loom, but it has weathered the storm and come out triumphant.<\/p>\n<p>What saved it was its weapons and cyber industries.<\/p>\n<p>As Joshua Leifer points out in this analysis in Haaretz, Israel\u2019s secular, educated, high-tech elite \u2013 at loggerheads with Netanyahu over so much \u2013 is doing very well thank you.<\/p>\n<p>And liberal Europe, for all its condemnation of Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza and the West Bank, is actually more dependent than ever in Israeli military technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Over \u00a0a third of Israeli defence and weapons record sales last year were to Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jvl-intro__original\">\n                      This article was originally published by<br \/>\n                      Haaretz on Thu 27 Aug 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/2026-08-27\/ty-article-magazine\/.premium\/why-israels-high-tech-elite-wont-save-its-democracy\/000001a0-4293-d840-abbe-7af3ac9e0000\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Read the original here.<\/a>\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                                                      Why Israel&#8217;s high-tech elite won&#8217;t save Its democracy<\/p>\n<p>The post\u2013October 7 wars were supposed to be an economic catastrophe. Instead, they became a windfall that binds Israel\u2019s liberal economic elite to the occupation. It will stay that way until the high-tech class feels less comfortable profiting from the defense and cyber industries\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__original-byline\">\n                                              by Joshua Leifer, Haaretz\n                                          <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__source-body-status\" data-republished-body-status=\"\">Loading article text\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JVL Introduction Israel\u2019s stock exchange had more than doubled since October 7th \u2013 in less than three years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-598667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}