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Israel's quantum leap: Building a national hub for the next tech revolution - interview

“AI requires, on one hand, a lot of technology, which Israel excels in, but also from the other end, it needs for the data centers, lots of land and lots of energy, which Israel does not have."

Portrait of a female researcher standing before a quantum computer. (Ilustrative)
The New York City skyline and the Empire State Building, as wildfire smoke impacts air quality in New York City, US, July 17, 2026.

'Deals happen outside meetings': Hakibbutz unveils first Israeli startup home in New York City

People walk near office towers at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020

Israel's tech employees cost more than US counterparts

In January, Israel’s Ministry of Defense signed a multi-year contract with Semiconductor Devices valued at approximately $115 million (NIS 380 million).

The curse of being Israel's most valuable company


Connect/Israel brings together businessmen from Israel, US and Gulf

In Israel, the group met entrepreneurs such as Dov Moran and Sylvan Adams.

 Connect Israel took young businessmen from Israel, the US and the Gulf on a trip through the Middle East.

Wolt to expand to 15 new communities near Rishon, Rehovot

Wolt was established in 2014 in Helsinki, Finland, as a convenient, fast and serviceable food delivery platform. It began operating in Israel in 2018. 

 A courier working with Wolt, a meal delivery app service, rides a scooter as he delivers an order from a restaurant, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Tel Aviv, Israel July 9, 2020.

Israeli stocks teeter on Wall Street brink

BUSINESS AFFAIRS: The sharp decline in the US stock exchange seems to be hitting Israeli tech companies harder than anticipated.

 TRADERS WORK on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week.

SparkIL provides Israel's small business owners a much-needed boost

SparkIL, established in partnership by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Ogen Group, is the first peer-to-peer lending platform for supporting Israeli small businesses.

 David Elimelech and his girlfriend, Jennifer, display their goods.

TaTiO raises $5.3m. for hiring platform focusing on skills, not résumés

The company uses artificial intelligence to assess job seekers’ skill sets, recommending them to employers without the need for old-fashioned resumes.


Israel’s largest law firm reflects on 50 years of change

“I spoke Hebrew at home, but did not have great Hebrew, and then he made me an offer. The magic word was it was in dollars. I focused on ‘dollars’ and didn’t hear the number,” said a partner.

 View of office and apartment highrise buildings in central Tel Aviv, on November 27, 2017

This AI platform aims to help corporations fix their sustainability issues

Continue AI has announced a $5.7M funding round that it will use to further develop its AI platform.

Artificial intelligence

Israel’s UN Climate Tech Delegation for COP27 announced

These are the 10 companies that will make up the delegation representing Israel's climate tech industry on the world stage.

Israel Start up

Joonko raises $25m., enabling huge US companies to hire diversely

The company was founded in order to help companies hire more underrepresented individuals. Here's what it has planned.

 The team at Joonko.

Bank Leumi CEO: It's difficult to recruit talent for banking system

The CEO of Bank Leumi spoke about the difficulty in recruiting talent for the banking system, the severe recession in Europe and Israel's economic status.

Israelis walk past a branch of Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv