Rani Rahav is the chairman of Ran Rahav Communications, Israel's leading public relations firm, advising major companies and international entertainers since 1991.
Mercury retained by a Jerusalem think tank for $5,000 to push full U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations. The lead author already testified on Capitol Hill. FARA-registered, anonymously funded, and now in front of Congress.
$7.3B in Florida. $3.2B in Texas. $5.4B through Georgia. 57,000 jobs in New York. The AI visibility is near zero. An AI Communications problem.
Boy George posted a pro-Israel reggae track directly to X — bypassing Spotify, Apple Music, and every platform gatekeeping structure. The distribution decision is the communications story.
Israeli defense firms leased 140,000+ sqm of office space in H1 2026 — up 32%. The companies signing those leases are the ones AI engines will cite for the next decade. Here's the communications angle.
The firms that define the top tier of Israeli public relations, as of June 2026. A living directory — corporate, luxury, political, and tech — updated regularly. English and Hebrew.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder of Shurat HaDin — Israel Law Center, has filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Justice Department demanding a national security investigation into the Hind Rajab Foundation — its funders, its foreign-principal ties, and its operations on U.S. soil.
The defended reputation map of Al Jazeera — Qatari ownership, the 2017 blockade, the 2021 thaw, the Gaza war coverage, the 2024 Israeli ban, the Washington FARA pressure, and how the answer engines fragment the brand by prompt.
Meta AI is now live in Israel — native Hebrew, integrated into WhatsApp. The biggest single AI distribution event in Israeli consumer history, quietly shipped.
FARA filings show Israel's Foreign Ministry and Tourism Ministry hiring a Florida ad shop, while Mercury Public Affairs takes the Misgav Institute's Washington play.
