The Israeli
talent map.
Who hires from whom, who loses people, and where they go. Mostly tech, but also banks, pharma, telecom and food. Updated every Monday from public profiles.
Updated 6 October · 3,412,000 profiles · 1,807 companies
Eight numbers worth knowing.
1 in 6 of NVIDIA's hires in Israel came from Intel. In the two quarters after Intel announced cuts it was 1 in 4.
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5 people moved from NVIDIA to Intel in 27 months. 365 went the other way.
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2× the Open University share at Cyera, Wiz and Island compared with the big employers: 15% vs 7–8%.
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44 → 2 people moved from Mobileye to NVIDIA in two years, and two moved from NVIDIA to Mobileye.
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39% of Palo Alto Networks' "hires" since 2024 are CyberArk employees who updated their employer after the acquisition.
20% of Apple's hires in Israel list military service as the last job before Apple. At monday.com it is 4%.
32% of Qualcomm's Israeli hires since 2024 came from one company, Autotalks, which it acquired.
~6% of NVIDIA's team left in 2022, the last year with settled data. 2024 and 2025 show 2–3% so far because people update profiles late.
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Who took in people and who lost them.
↓ Most joined
NVIDIA
EY
Palo Alto Networks
Google
Mobileye
Elbit Systems
Cyera↑ Most left
Intel
Check Point
Wix
Dell
Microsoft
monday.com
ClarotyDetected job changes in the last 90 days. A move is counted when a profile's current employer changes. Freelance, stealth and academic entries are excluded; companies with fewer than five moves are not shown.
From which company to which, most people
IntelNVIDIA365
16% of NVIDIA hires
IntelGoogle104
15% of Google hires
Intel
Apple66
11% of Apple hires
MobileyeNVIDIA57
3% of NVIDIA hires
Intel
Cisco24
16% of Cisco hires
Unit 8200Cyera28
7% of Cyera hires
Since April 2024. Acquisitions excluded.
Who joined and who left, company by company.
Each map starts as a LinkedIn post. The page adds what did not fit in the post: how we counted, the charts, and answers to the questions from the comments.
Hires per quarter, by sector.
Q1 2026 vs Q1 2025: chips +24%, software flat, defense −12%, banks +4%, pharma and health −31%.
Hires per quarter at a fixed basket of large Israeli employers per sector (16 chip and hardware companies, 24 software, 13 cyber, 5 defense, 9 banks and insurers, 6 pharma and health). Acquisitions excluded. Q2 2026 omitted as incomplete.
Where the people at each company studied.
| Company | Technion | TAU | BGU | HUJI | Open U | Bar-Ilan | Reichman | COLMAN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 33% | 16% | 15% | 5% | 5% | 7% | 1% | 1% |
| Apple | 36% | 26% | 19% | 6% | 3% | 6% | 1% | 1% |
| Intel | 26% | 13% | 16% | 6% | 8% | 6% | 1% | 1% |
| Google | 24% | 26% | 12% | 12% | 6% | 7% | 5% | 3% |
| Mobileye | 15% | 14% | 10% | 21% | 7% | 7% | 1% | 2% |
| Microsoft | 17% | 18% | 15% | 9% | 8% | 8% | 6% | 5% |
| Check Point | 8% | 13% | 12% | 6% | 8% | 9% | 4% | 4% |
| Wix | 5% | 16% | 14% | 7% | 6% | 6% | 10% | 6% |
| monday.com | 5% | 19% | 13% | 8% | 7% | 6% | 10% | 9% |
| Cyera | 5% | 22% | 13% | 11% | 15% | 6% | 6% | 10% |
 Wiz | 9% | 19% | 8% | 9% | 15% | 7% | 7% | 9% |
| Elbit Systems | 20% | 10% | 11% | 3% | 7% | 8% | 1% | 3% |
 Teva | 8% | 19% | 15% | 15% | 6% | 13% | 2% | 5% |
 Clalit | 7% | 19% | 16% | 13% | 4% | 11% | 2% | 3% |
 Bank Leumi | 3% | 14% | 8% | 8% | 9% | 15% | 3% | 12% |
Chip companies hire mostly Technion graduates. Young cyber companies have a high share of Open University graduates. At Bank Leumi, Bar-Ilan and the College of Management lead.
Share of current Israeli employees who list the institution, among profiles that list any education. A person can list more than one. COLMAN is the College of Management.
Banks, hospitals, pharma, telecom and food companies.
64 large Israeli employers in eight sectors: how many they hired, from how many places, how many came from the army, and which company sent them the most people.
11 of 64 companies we track have Intel alumni as their single biggest feeder: NVIDIA, Google, Apple and Cisco, but also eToro, Philips, ICL and SodaStream.
5 vs 41 hires per hundred people in 27 months: Teva vs Fireblocks.
18% of Ness Technologies' hires came straight from military service. At the big tech employers it is 10%.
3 of 3 Israel Electric, Israel Railways and ZIM all have the same biggest feeder: Elbit Systems.
Hires per hundred people, by sector
Hires per hundred current profiles, April 2024 to July 2026, across 64 large employers. The second figure is total hires and the share that came straight from military service.
Who hires from whom, sector by sector
The 14 largest tech employers in the pool.
9,014 hires · 28 per 100 people · 10% from the army
| Company | Team | Hired since Apr 2024 | Per 100 | Sources | From the army | Biggest feeder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 5,791 | 2,025 | 35 | 689 | 10% | Intel |
| monday.com | 1,766 | 851 | 48 | 489 | 4% | Wix |
| Microsoft | 4,080 | 799 | 20 | 487 | 11% | Intel |
| Mobileye | 3,439 | 795 | 23 | 478 | 10% | Intel |
| Check Point | 2,688 | 792 | 29 | 506 | 14% | No single feeder |
| Google | 2,853 | 638 | 22 | 285 | 6% | Intel |
| Wix | 2,520 | 635 | 25 | 445 | 9% | Playtika |
| Elbit Systems | 2,039 | 570 | 28 | 331 | 13% | Intel |
| Apple | 2,747 | 490 | 18 | 191 | 20% | Intel |
| Cyera | 512 | 397 | 78 | 213 | 13% | Microsoft |
 Cato Networks | 777 | 348 | 45 | 194 | 7% | Check Point |
 Rafael | 1,733 | 276 | 16 | 165 | 17% | Elbit |
| Wiz | 471 | 250 | 53 | 129 | 6% | Microsoft |
| Cisco | 840 | 148 | 18 | 93 | 7% | Intel |
"Team" is current public profiles in Israel. For banks, hospitals and manufacturers that is mostly office, tech and management staff, not the whole workforce. "Per 100" is hires per hundred current profiles over 27 months. "Biggest feeder" is the single employer that sent the most people; acquisitions and relabels are marked.
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