High tech

‘Perfect storm’: Israel's high-tech faces human capital crisis, lack of new students in age of AI

“We need to create a new way of teaching skills for them to progress,” David Perlmutter, chairman of the Committee for Increasing Human Capital in High-Tech, warned.

There is a shrinking number of young people interested in pursuing high-tech jobs in their academic careers in Israel.
Maya Eisen Zafrir, CEO of LeumiTech

Despite the war: Israeli high-tech opens 2026 with approximately $3.1 billion in funding

Global antisemitism is spurring some immigration to Israel, but more people left the country in the past two years than arrived.

Lessons from Iran’s brain drain: Expert warns emigration puts Israel’s security at risk

The offices of Israel’s Channel 13 News.

Channel 13 pivots to Rapaport-backed investor group after Drahi track falters


How will US graphics chips restrictions affect Israel?

Just a week before he vacates the White House, President Biden signed the Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion (AI Diffusion Rule).

 U.S. President Joe Biden leaves after speaking following Syrian rebels announced that they have ousted Syria's Bashar al-Assad, at the White House, in Washington, U.S., December 8, 2024.

Transformation in digital agriculture: The Israeli company's agreement

Phytech signs strategic partnership with Rivulis to revolutionize global digital agriculture.

 Phytech

In need of energy: Israeli tech giant lays off hundreds of employees

SolarEdge announces two U.S. deals in residential solar systems while laying off 400 employees, half in Israel.

 SolarEdge

Hailo: The Tel Aviv unicorn company set to conquer Vegas

Hailo will showcase at CES 2025 in Las Vegas a new generation of AI accelerators for Generative AI on edge devices, and the Hailo-15 AI processor for cameras enabling free-text search in video.

 The unicorn company Hailo

Israeli high-tech sector concludes 2024 with 38% growth in capital raising

Preliminary data from LeumiTech and IVC’s high-tech report reveals that despite the challenges of 2024, the high-tech sector managed to secure its role as the growth engine of the Israeli economy.

LeumiTech CEO Maya Eisen Zafrir.

It's time for the government to embrace lessons from Israel's hi-tech sector - opinion

Adopting private-sector principles doesn’t mean running the government like a business. It means fostering a culture of efficiency, accountability, and alignment in service of the public good.

 Highrises in Tel Aviv, July 14, 2024.

Hi-Tech leaders urge government support amid war-driven uncertainty  

The credit rating downgrades could "tarnish Israel’s reputation as a thriving start-up nation—a brand image that could take years to rebuild," Shlomo Landress notes.

 From left to right - Maya Schwartz, Shay Michel, Shlomo Landress.

Airwallex to dedicate 1% of its value to start-ups

The company joins the Pledge 1% program with a long-term model, expanding employee volunteering, start-up support, and product discounts.

 Airwallex

Recent tech layoffs reflect not just economic realities but cultural truths - opinion

Recent layoffs expose the intersection of technology, humanity, and culture in a way that no algorithm can fully calculate.

 Big tech (illustrative).

Tech leaders plan $800 Tel Aviv - New York return fares

DemocraTech announced it is holding talks to operate an airline between Israel and the US between January and March, intending to open it up to the general public.

 Travellers at Ben Gurion International Airport where flights were being delayed, as the workers of the airport went on strike, in a protest for the release of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, on September 2, 202