Michael Eisenberg
@mikeeisenberg · Pro-Israel advocacy & explainers
Michael Eisenberg is a co-founder of the Aleph venture fund and an author on economics and Jewish thought.
Our very significant investment in Aleph, which came out of stealth today. Raised more than 250 million dollars. Leading investors such as Peter Thiel. Founders Fund. Josh Wolfe from Lux, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed and Joe Lonsdale. I met Michael Kaufman, the founder, half a year before October 7. I knew we would work together. Insane team. Insane performance and pace. And the missile works. Proven against the U.S. Army at their base in Morocco. Proud of the team.
Translated from HebrewIt’s not only that Yehuda Eliyahu is an excellent appointment as director of the Israel Land Authority. It’s that the wheeler-dealer and the armored one apparently want to oust him because Yehuda is unwilling to appoint the wheeler-dealers’ cronies to jobs. Anyone who cares about the Negev, the Galilee, and the country’s future must stop Yehuda Eliyahu’s ouster. @AmichaiChikli is 100 percent right.
Translated from HebrewRead it. This is the future. And it is also the solution to Israel’s failing education system. And it will also happen in Israel because there is no other choice.
Translated from HebrewI agree with the analysis below. Long shekel. Long bitcoin. Long gold. In my humble opinion, another thing that needs to be taken into account is the rise in interest on U.S. debt, which stems not only from the things mentioned in @AlexTseitlin's post but also from the relatively high interest rates and debt loads of the artificial-intelligence ecosystem. Lenders are asking for higher yields on U.S. bonds. And as a reminder, the dollar-shekel story
Translated from HebrewTake 11 minutes to watch an artist dismantle arguments against Israel. This is how you build a narrative. Hats off @EinatWilf
Translated from HebrewSomewhere on the eastern border of Israel, we are establishing the first agricultural community in 20 years. They are moving the earth and I was deeply moved. I met a pregnant couple, he from Israel and she from Belgium moving into to one of these Caravans. One of many lessons we learned from October 7th, is that we must settle the borders. That we must build thriving agriculture, and that the young people of Israel are ready to take responsibility for our future. If you want to be a partner in this, DM me. Am Yisrael Chai. Shabbat Shalom! 🇮🇱🇮🇱
Somewhere along the eastern border, they are establishing the first agricultural community in 20 years. Moving to tears. One of the lessons from October 7 is that we must settle the borders. That we must build thriving agriculture and that the people of Israel are ready to take responsibility for our future. The people of Israel lives. Shabbat shalom!
Translated from HebrewFor the hundredth time: Why are there no robotaxis or Uber in Israel? Why aren’t we welcoming the future? This is truly a crime of omission.
Translated from HebrewThe future is very bright. 🇮🇱 We have incredible kids in Israel! Watch video and read below! How did students start the first day of school at the agricultural and technology high schools of the Shomer Hachadash? A sunrise hike to David Ben Gurion’s grave with incredible energy. These kids will get up every day before dawn, work in agriculture and then study Bible, math, physics, and agritech while taking care of themselves and their fellow students. Oh, and the song they are singing? It is a song written in 1936 by Zalman Hen about resettling the land. Read the words. (Translated to English) Look, behold and see How great this day is, this day! A fire burns in the chest And the plow once more splits the field. And the plow — look, the plow — Once more splits the field. Hoe, pickaxe, mattock and pitchfork Have joined together in a storm, And we will light the earth again, With a green flame. Awake, ascend, go up! What fear and what hunger, what hunger? We will not rest and we will not grow weary Until honey and milk flow again from the rock.
David’s Sling 2.0!
👇👇 There was no famine in Gaza. @UN - you should be ashamed. @PulitzerPrizes - thus is what great journalism looks like. Award the prize to @Olivia_Reingold
Haredi young people are not the “fringe of the camp.” They are the mainstream. They are smart. They are energetic. They are normal Jews with genuine fear of Heaven, with a desire for peace in the home, with a desire to contribute to the people of Israel. They have their eyes open. And they know clowns when they see them.
Translated from HebrewThe Iranian Regime has found an ingenious method to teach its population both math and exponentiality. It is a daily exercise.
Lies take the elevator. Truth takes the stairs. But truth caught up with the UN, IPC and Hamas. They should all be held accountable.
Required reading! Below I translated Stripe's letter (the world's most important technology company for payments and financial infrastructure) to shed light on a few things regarding Israel: 1. Israel is lagging on stablecoins and crypto regulation in general. These will become financial infrastructure in every sense. 2. The decision to tax wallet companies is proving to be a bigger mistake with each passing day. Artificial intelligence is accelerating the rate at which one- or two-person companies with many agents are being built. The State of Israel should aim for all these companies to be established as limited companies. 3. It is essential to advance in the Knesset's agreements committee the regulatory and tax amendments initiated by Finance Minister Smotrich, which seek to establish an international financial center here. We must attract here the best minds and financial activity, and of course those who will push us forward in financial technologies as well. With antisemitism rising around the world, there is an opportunity that will not return. Meanwhile, Singapore is enacting regulations and we are stuck in regulation and the Finance Committee. The person who blocked the reforms, Milbatzky, is probably going home, so I call on the finance minister (@bezalelsm) and opposition leader (@yairlapid) to ensure that the regulations pass in the agreements committee before the elections. *********************************** Translation of Stripe's letter by Grok @stripe, and an image of the letter in English below: August 19, 2026 Dear investor, We are writing to you because we are announcing that OpenRouter will join Stripe, as our largest acquisition ever. This follows the recent acquisitions of Bridge, Privy, and Metronome. We thought it would be useful to take a moment and share how we think about these businesses in the context of Stripe's strategy. Stripe aims to increase the gross domestic product of the internet. When we think about a thriving world, we are drawn to the foundations that enable everything: mechanisms such as money, credit, currencies, legal structures, and risk management. We believe the world can, and should, be larger and more prosperous than it is today, and we believe better economic infrastructure can help make that a reality. The singularity is a vague and perhaps already worn-out term, but we decided that January 1 marked the beginning of the singularity, and we have operated on that basis ever since. The singularity is often mentioned alongside millenarian predictions, but in our case we simply saw a major turning point in long-term trends, for example, a huge increase in the rate of new-company formation, and decided that we needed to take the phase change seriously. It turns out that optimizing for developers, as Stripe has done since the beginning, is in many ways the same as optimizing for coding systems and agents, since they too seek programmability and frictionless installation. We are lucky that so many of the world's AI businesses adopted Stripe as a result, and it became clear to us that building economic infrastructure for the internet is mostly the same as building economic infrastructure for AI. Although it is clear that the changes will be enormous, no one can know for certain how AI will change our world. Many predictions by smart people have already been completely disproved. In humility about the uncertainty, we have two overarching goals. First, we want to accelerate the spread of AI throughout the economy. As AI changes what is possible, we see an abundance of wonderful new products and services, certainly only an opening compared with the amazing creations still to come, requiring different and better-suited financial tools. The rise of AI in the economy also creates new challenges, such as new types of theft and fraud, requiring sophisticated advances to address them effectively. Overall, the collective promise and hope of AI is that it will enable greater material prosperity and abundance, and we want to help make that a reality. Second, there is concern that AI will cause unemployment or concentration; perhaps both. We believe it is important that the deployment of AI strengthen human agency, and we hope Stripe can play a role in protecting economic autonomy as a foundational component of a liberal society. As a result of AI, we hope more companies will be formed, and that these businesses will be able to operate more efficiently alongside established competitors and compete with them. Although early data supports this, as we have documented in the Stripe Economics Substack and elsewhere, nothing is predetermined. As supporters of small businesses, we will do our best to keep the path open. We continue to believe there is no ceiling on the size of the global economy, a little larger than $100 trillion today. Although this may sound implausible at first glance, we think it is useful to consider a quadrillion-dollar world and enumerate the relevant bottlenecks to reaching it. (If global GDP per capita matched that of every Irish person, about $100,000, we would be 80% of the way there.) With more than 5 million businesses and flows representing nearly 2% of global GDP having adopted Stripe, we are happy to have made a good start, but we believe these numbers are tiny relative to what will be possible in the coming years. What we are building at the macro level is clear: the global economy is about to grow significantly. At the micro level, it is clear that how businesses operate is changing rapidly. Existing businesses are adapting their business models (metered billing is rising while many traditional models are declining) and hiring rapidly to launch new products and services (making speed and flexibility the order of the day). Company formation is accelerating. Agents are on the verge of becoming economic actors in their own right. Stablecoins are gaining rapid adoption and are likely to strengthen further when they become the native currency of the AI economy. Because tokens cross borders easily, global coverage is becoming more important than ever. We are working as quickly as possible to build the economic tools this era needs. The combination of native support for stablecoins and agentic accessibility is leading to the emergence of a new set of primitives: Discovery + onboarding: Stripe Projects, which allows agents to sign up for third-party services; Stripe Directory, product and service discovery for agents; Provisioning API, embedded registration for agents. Usage management: Metronome. Payment: Bridge, stablecoin orchestration; Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite; Tempo, a blockchain for agents; MPP, a machine-payment protocol. Funds storage: Privy, crypto/stablecoin wallets; Open Standard, a new stablecoin. Over time, we expect a change in composition, with the “AI economy” layer gaining a larger share relative to the one built for the pre-AI economy. Adoption of these products will not necessarily look dramatic: we are integrating them deeply into Stripe's existing products and platform to ensure easy adoption for every business.
Translated from HebrewIsraeli technology that can save the healthcare system and taxpayers a lot of money and restore independence to people who have experienced a stroke. Win Win.
Translated from HebrewIsrael just published its National AI Strategic Plan in English. Key areas: Physical AI and solving real world problems with AI. Less research. More action and implementation. With forward by @netanyahu You can find plan here: