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🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to an art media podcast. |
| 0:08.9 | Hi, it's Dan. Sorry to interrupt your weekend, but there's something I wanted to share. |
| 0:13.6 | This week, another podcast in the Arc Media family called What's Your Number aired an episode |
| 0:19.6 | that's really worth your time. What's Your Number |
| 0:22.4 | is a weekly podcast committed to delivering insight and analysis on Israel's economy, its tech sector, |
| 0:29.1 | and its current tech boom, and the overall business environment in Israel. It's hosted by Mikhail Levram, |
| 0:35.4 | a longtime business reporter based in Palo Alto, who is editor at large of Fortune magazine and who also contributes to CNBC. |
| 0:44.0 | And also, Yonatan Adiri, who's an Israeli tech entrepreneur and previously served as an advisor to former Israeli president, Shimon Peres. |
| 0:52.3 | This week, they hosted entrepreneur and investor Seth Segal. |
| 0:56.6 | Seth has been a leading voice on an important part of every country's economy and society. |
| 1:01.8 | That is water. His book, Let There Be Water, tells the story of how Israel used its |
| 1:07.8 | environmental disadvantages to become perhaps the global leader in water innovation. |
| 1:14.8 | Mikhail and Yonatan talked to Seth about this and how Israel's neighbors from Egypt to Iran did |
| 1:20.2 | everything wrong and how their hostile obsession with Israel put them on the fast track towards a water disaster. |
| 1:27.0 | The interview pivots off a piece that Seth just published in the Wall Street Journal on the fast track towards a water disaster. The interview pivots off a piece that Seth just |
| 1:29.7 | published in the Wall Street Journal on the growing water crisis in Iran. Water is one of the most |
| 1:35.6 | crucial resources in the Middle East and leading on this front will play a decisive role in shaping |
| 1:40.7 | the geopolitical future of the region. Here's the conversation. |
| 1:46.6 | So, Yonatan, what's your number this week? |
| 1:48.8 | It's $100 million, $100 million invested in an Israeli drone company called Heven, |
| 1:54.3 | making it the newest unicorn in Israeli defense tech. |
| 1:58.2 | And there's actually an interesting side to this, |
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