Israeli emigration hit three-year high of nearly 270,000
The Wall Street Journal’s 10-Point newsletter on Tuesday stitched together reporting on a record-setting market close driven by the Magnificent Seven technology companies, a three-year high in Israeli emigration, intra-Republican tensions in Idaho, and the experience of taking a Waymo robotaxi to the airport in the predawn dark.
The estimated combined market capitalization of the Magnificent Seven technology companies hit a record high at Tuesday’s close, the Journal reported. Those gains propelled both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite to fresh records. Increasingly, the market is “running on one engine”: a familiar cast of tech companies that are “building out (and benefiting from) the AI revolution.” “Just about everything else is going down,” the newsletter added.
The same newsletter reported that nearly 270,000 Israeli citizens left the country between 2023 and 2025, according to analysis by researchers at Tel Aviv University — the highest three-year emigration total on record. The figures run roughly 50% above the number of emigrants in the same time frame a decade ago, draining doctors, engineers and Ph.D.s in what Israeli lawmakers have called a “tsunami.” Countering that trend are young people who have spent the past three years doing the opposite: enlisting in the military, marrying and building lives inside a nation at war. A small, distinct population of American Jews has moved to Israel since the war, running against the tide of the many people leaving. The reporting was by Anvee Bhutani.
The newsletter also looked at intra-Republican tensions through the lens of one Mountain West state. WSJ’s Robbie Gramer reported that Idaho, deeply Republican and mostly rural, is about the furthest you could get from a battleground state and is often overlooked in the national media during election cycles. But under the surface there is a groundswell of tensions between traditional Republicans, the MAGA loyalists and newer hard-right politicians tussling for power and influence in Idaho, he wrote. It has become a key bellwether for the fight over what a post-Trump Republican Party could become at the national level, as well as a test lab for some of the nation’s most controversial conservative legislation. “As a fourth-generation Idahoan, I pay attention to what’s going on in the home state,” Gramer wrote. “I recently returned to hear what residents think about the battle raging within the right.”
Separately, travel columnist Dawn Gilbertson described her 5:30 a.m. Waymo ride to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in late September. Ordering a predawn ride-share to the airport is always a gamble, she wrote — you never know how long it will take to find a driver, then you cross your fingers they won’t cancel, and there is always the risk of olfactory overload. None of those was an issue on her trip. But taking a robotaxi came with its own challenges, she reported.
The 10-Point newsletter was curated and edited by Morgan Smith and James Leigh in collaboration with Editor in Chief Emma Tucker.