Why this matters now:
At a time of rising global antisemitism, Israel's economy is under pressure to create a better business climate for people staking their fortunes within our borders.
Yet, entrepreneurs, investors, and global partners increasingly ask the same question: Is Israel a competitive place to build, invest, and scale businesses and shareholder value?
As normalization rolls out through the region, a pivot from our survival-oriented mindset towards a deliberate prosperity-oriented, intentional national strategy is needed.
Israel can become the best place to do business in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa by innovating in tech, and also by:
Designing policy for training, attracting, and retaining global capital, talent, and entrepreneurial ambition;
Removing structural barriers;
Increasing institutional trust;
Promoting the advancement of immigrants in the local economy and professional communities.
Actively building Israel’s global economic power secures our future.
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Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Sophia Tupolev-Luz is a deal communications executive in tech, a non-profit leader, and a passionate advocate for economic zionism. Her focus is the promotion of Israel as the world’s best place to do business, through entrepreneurship in Israel and the economic advancement of immigrants in the workplace.
In her corporate roles, she has spent her career leading global communications on technology leadership teams. Most recently, she was a corporate officer and VP Comms for UserWay, a Level Access Company, a TASE company that she helped take private in 2024. Sophia has advised dozens of tech leadership teams and their investors. She co-hosts The Endgame, Israel's Tech M&A Show.
A tri-lingual, three-time immigrant, Sophia is a social entrepreneur, founding two non-profit initiatives to promote the economic inclusion of immigrants in Israel: The Economic Integration Org, focused on policy advocacy, and The Reboot Startup Nation, Israel’s grassroots community for immigrants in tech, connecting displaced professionals to jobs since 2022.
