Israel innovation authority

IDF reservists created 150 new startups during last year, innovation program reveals

18x Elite Impact revealed that its participants, all IDF reservists and veterans, created 150 startups and raised $15 million in investment.

|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN
18X Elite Impact expert network of investors and business leaders from left to right: Avigail Levine - 18X Elite Impact, Roy Gat - Schesto Ventures, Renana Ashkenazi - Grove Ventures, Shira Eting - Vintage Investment Partners, Nadir Izrael – Armis
A ship passes through the Strait of Hormuz.

Ending Tehran's energy blackmail: New tech could end world's Iranian oil dependence - opinion

The technological revolution now underway is beginning to change the rules of the game.

|ByDROR BIN, CEO, ISRAEL INNOVATION AUTHORITY
An AI-generated image of an Nvidia chip.

Israel launches national AI supercomputer to strengthen tech innovation

The supercomputer is part of Israel’s National Program for AI R&D Infrastructure and is the first supercomputer designed for AI usage in Israel.

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM
ISRAELI AND Druze flags at the entrance to the northern Druze village of Hurfeish on November 29 2023.

Israel launches NIS 15 million initiative to bring Druze, Circassians into tech industry

The NIS 15 million ($4.69 million) initiative aims to support technological entrepreneurship and connect aspiring entrepreneurs to high-tech companies, academia, investors, and professional mentors.

|ByPESACH BENSON/TPS

Combining Academia and Innovation: IDC Herzliya's Graduate Programs

IDC Herzliya provides its students a unique path in their field of choice, with an enriching, practical education reinforced by an abundance of opportunities to network and gain hands-on experience.

JANUARY 15, 2020ByELISHAI ZEHARYA, RAPHAEL RECANATI
Hasan Abo-Shally and Lucy Anderson Bashan students of MA Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) at the Raphael Recanati International School, IDC Herzliya

BIRD Energy to fund 7 Israel-US clean energy projects

Each project is conducted by a US-Israeli partnership, and the selected projects address energy challenges and opportunities, focusing on commercializing clean energy technologies.

DECEMBER 24, 2019ByAARON REICH
Heliostat mirrors reflect the sky in a field at the construction site of a 240 meter (787 feet) solar-power tower in Israel's southern Negev Desert, February 8, 2016. The world's tallest solar-power tower is being built off a highway in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, its backers hoping the tec

Tnuva-headed consortium chosen to establish Galilee foodtech hub

"FoodTech and AgTech Innovation is at an all-time high and we are excited to be part of this initiative to establish Israel as a world leader in the FoodTech arena," said OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved.

JUNE 11, 2019ByEYTAN HALON
A Tnuva truck enters the company's logistic centre in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, Israel May 22, 2014.