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What's Your Number?

What's Your Number?

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Hosted by Yonatan Adiri and Michal Lev-Ram, What’s Your Number? is a weekly podcast from Ark Media, looking at the Israeli economy through a global lens. Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Personal Finance Politics & Government
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  • This is Sparta?
    Sep 17 2025

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    📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

    WYNDEX is beating S&P and NASDAQ, again. Our index is in the green for a few good weeks now - gaining 1.84% last week, 0.5% above the S&P and +0.3% above the NASDAQ Composite. Also, we can now officially welcome Via to the WYNDEX, opening in the green with a great IPO, pricing the share at $46 and closing at $49. In the red, the two dominant ones were MobilEye (7.41%) and SolarEdge (15.83%).

    🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

    • A new report shows a notable decrease in first-time investments and new fundraisings among Israeli VCs in the first half of 2025: The study, conducted by IVC, a data & research firm, law firm Gornitzky, and the accounting firm KPMG, said that in the first half of 2025, Israeli funds raised $260m, compared to $1.2b in 2024 and $2.2b in 2023.
    • The attack in Qatar’s impact on the Abraham Accords: Five years into these historic agreements, which established diplomatic and economic relations between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors in the Gulf, Israel’s attack on Hamas leaders in Qatar is creating some new tensions.

    🔎And our Long Play today is a conversation about Israel-India relations, and the role the world’s most populous country can play especially now, at a time of increasing isolation for Israel. Co-host Yonatan Adiri shares insights from his recent time on the ground in New Delhi, analyzing the unique relationship between the two countries, their recently signed investment pact, and what an even deeper, future partnership could look like.

    📅 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:

    Hosts - YONATAN ADIRI and MICHAL LEV-RAM

    Executive Producer - ADAAM JAMES LEVIN-AREDDY

    Sound and Video editing - MARTIN HUERGO

    Music - MIDNIGHT GENERATION

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    44 mins
  • What's Next for Israeli IPO's? - with Oren Zeev
    Sep 10 2025

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    📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

    The WYNDEX is in the green for its fourth week in a row. That said, this week the Wyndex fell below the NASDAQ’s 2.91% post-labor day rally. This week we saw most of the movement (4.5% through 8.52%) outside the cyber domain. Digital bulls (Etoro, Oddity, Global E, and Wix) continued their march and lifted the index up. Palo Alto Networks and Cyberark with a modest rise of 2%. Two notable red dynamics: Varonis completed an acquisition of Slashnext (an AI native email security company) for $150mm total deal value and suffered a %5 share price decline. And the ICL group shed 5.59%.

    🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

    • Israel’s state comptroller issues a damning report on the government’s handling of civilian affairs post-Oct. 7th: The report charges that civilians “experienced the failures of the Israeli government firsthand” - including those evacuated from homes in the North and South, reservists who have been continually drafted, and business owners who have been impacted by the war.
    • India and Israel have inked a bilateral agreement: Not a lot of details yet but it’s being hailed as a “strategic step” to open doors for Israeli & Indian investors, strengthen Israeli exports, and provide more certainty for both countries in doing business with each other. (India is already one of the biggest purchasers of Israeli arms.)

    🔎And our Long Play today is an interview with Oren Zeev, a solo venture capitalists who has backed many companies started by Israeli founders: Houzz, Decart, Navan (formerly TripActions), and Riverside, to name a few. We talk to Oren about the current state of the IPO market & other opportunities for exits, what he’s seeing from Israeli founders today, and what it means to be a “solo VC/GP.”

    📅 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:

    Hosts - YONATAN ADIRI and MICHAL LEV-RAM

    Executive Producer - ADAAM JAMES LEVIN-AREDDY

    Sound and Video editing - MARTIN HUERGO

    Music - MIDNIGHT GENERATION

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    40 mins
  • Israel and Germany: It's Complicated
    Sep 3 2025

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    📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

    A classic August hibernation week for Wall Street, with both S&P and NASDAQ with a fraction of a percent movement - compared to a whopping 2.44% rise in the WYNDEX.

    Topping the movers this week is Monday.com with 8.49% in the green. Other notable moves in the green are Elbit with 6.5% and Nova Measurements with 4.17% on the back of the stunning Nvidia earnings report. In the red, we have Lemonade shedding 6.9% and ZIM losing 5.29% after news of Turkey closing its ports to Israeli shipping companies turned into a stark reality.

    🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

    • New data shows increasing signs of growing consumer weakness in Israel as household savings difficulties emerge. Case in point: Only 28% of households now manage to save money at the end of the month (compared to 40% before the war). This is also the first August in five years in which we see a decline in credit card activity compared to the previous year. What does this all mean?
    • Serbia comes into the light as the client of the recently reported $1.6 billion defense deal led by Elbit, which was first without mention of the client country due to “political sensitivity.” This is yet another sign that Israel’s defense tech sector is continuing to grow.

    🔎And our Long Play today is a dive into the current state of Germany’s economy and why the European country’s future is interlinked with Israel’s. With a GDP of around $4.5T, Germany is the third largest economy in the world (after the US and China and just ahead of Japan) + of course the largest in Europe. It is also Israel’s second-largest trade partner and a long-time supporter of Israel, defending it from European sanctions. Now, as Germany’s economy stagnates - and the future of its political leanings seems uncertain - where does that leave Israel? We analyze the current challenges plus discuss new opportunities for the two countries to work together.

    📅 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:

    Hosts - YONATAN ADIRI and MICHAL LEV-RAM

    Executive Producer - ADAAM JAMES LEVIN-AREDDY

    Sound and Video editing - MARTIN HUERGO

    Music - MIDNIGHT GENERATION

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    37 mins
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