The Workshop builds upon our ongoing work to develop market-based solutions to Israel’s greatest challenges in regional development, agriculture, health, energy, water, and technology. Our specific focus now is mobilizing for post-war recovery, which will require a leap forward in resolving Israel’s dual recovery challenges for its southern and northern regions to close unsustainable gaps in income, job creation, and productivity. (For more details, see our February 2025 report: “Innovative Financing Solutions to Rebuild and Accelerate Growth Across Israel“).
The demand for capital investment to accelerate Israel’s post-war recovery requires mobilizing cutting-edge ideas from both private and public debt and equity markets—from shared equity funds for deep tech to structured credit instruments for project finance.
With rapid advances in fintech and globalization trends, Israel must constantly upgrade its ability to enable entrepreneurial, project, and strategic financial innovation. Through continuous innovation in trading technologies, securities design, and distribution, Israel’s capital markets can increase their role in the global financial system addressing sustainable development in the decades ahead.
KEY DISCUSSION TOPICS
- How can Israel’s capital markets become an active partner in launching new technologies to significantly increase global direct and portfolio investment flows?
- Can new instruments be designed to give investors access to the latest technologies without forcing companies into premature M&A activity or undervalued IPOs?
- What regulatory, institutional, legal, tax, and market infrastructure elements are necessary to sustain and build runways for new technologies?
- Which advances in securities design, processes, and policies will facilitate acceleration of the post-war recovery?