Alex Witkoff, CEO of the Witkoff Group; Josh Wolfe, partner and co-founder of Lux Capital, and Nathan Tsror, Economic Minister for the State of Israel to North America, participated in a panel discussion at last week’s Jerusalem Post Conference in New York focused on investing in Israel.
Witkoff, whose company is primarily focused on the United States, said he sees remarkable opportunity in Israel in the future. “I think Israel has enormous potential. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has had remarkable success, and it’s one of the best of any major indexes.”
Wolfe, who invests in emerging technologies, said that his company became very mobilized in Israel post-October 7. “We put close to a quarter of a billion dollars into the country, particularly in the aerospace and defense sectors.”
He suggested that recent events have shown that the world can be a dangerous place. “The geopolitical events both around Israel and Gaza and Ukraine and US and Israel and Iran have woken up the world to the false ideology, as ideal as it is, that the world is a safe place. There are bad actors with bad intentions, and you want good people with better technology fighting them. You also have the simultaneous democratization of many attributable systems across air, land, and sea, enabled by autonomous systems. The fight now is not social media, not games, not mobile technology. It is cutting-edge technology that is really coming to the fight, and it is an absolutely incredible thing. Within Israel, I believe it is the greatest generation, much like we had in the US post-World War II. The quality, the caliber, the talent, the mission-driveness, and the way they faced this existential threat and literally were born in fire are a stunning thing to watch, and I'm very proud to be an investor in this class.”
Tsror pointed out that Israelis are celebrated for their resilience not only socially, emotionally, and militarily but also economically. “In the most difficult years of the war, in 2024 and 2025, Israel had a positive GDP growth. The Israeli economy and industry and innovation are more attractive now than ever.”