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Defense Ministry orders boost Israeli startups

Total funding raised by companies that received a direct order from MAFAT in 2025 was $1.2 billion

The Israel Defense Forces announced that troops from the 10th Brigade have wrapped up a series of operations around the Yellow Line in the Khan Yunis area.
Startup Nation meets the Scale-Up State in Texas

Startup Nation meets the Scale-Up State: Israeli innovation heads to Texas

Integrating ultra-Orthodox students into research activities. Photographed in the laser laboratory at the Jerusalem College of Technology.

Israeli tech salaries rose in 2025, but jobs fell and gaps widened

A member of a research team who, as they say, have developed an implant of genetically engineered cells into the injured spinal cord of paralysed mice that has helped them walk again works at a laboratory at Tel Aviv University, Israel February 6, 2022. Picture taken February 6, 2022.

Your Taxes: Israel’s R&D edge over other OECD countries


Israeli business executives look ahead to 2024 - interview

“Despite the adverse conditions, I remain optimistic about the future. The Israeli economy, and the hi-tech sector, in particular, is robust and has the will to recover,” said Itay Gura.

 'THE WAR forced us to work in very difficult conditions, which proved once again that all of the retail industry is very important to the national ability to stay strong and overcome hard times,' says Dani Bezalel, CMO of Keshet-Teamim.

Why I’m flying to Texas in the middle of a war - opinion

The ties between Texas and Israel are extensive and continuously expanding beyond the state’s broad support for Israel.

 TEXAS GOVERNOR Greg Abbot (right) and Oklahoma Governor Kevin Sitt meet with President Issac Herzog during recent solidarity trip to Israel after the war broke out.

R&D firm Geomatrix has taken proactive measures to support startups and attract global investors

“Now is the time to invest in Israeli hi-tech’s infrastructure”

 Geomatrix Group founder Aviv Antebi

Israel at war - How is the high-tech sector doing?

JVP Founder Erel Margalit and Jerusalem Post reporter Zachy Hennessey discuss how the conflict between Israel and Hamas is affecting the most crucial sector of the country’s economy.

 Erel Margalit and Zachy Hennessey

Bill Clinton, Mobileye co-founder launch $1 billion climate fund

EcoBridge will mostly invest in later-stage companies that need help building the scale to compete globally.

 Former US President Bill Clinton is teaming up with Israeli billionaire Ziv Aviram.

50 Influential Jews: Israel's Tech Titans - No. 20

Ori Goshen, Michal Braverman- Blumenstyk, Assaf Rappaport, and Guy Franklin have left their mark on 2023. Here is why.

 Michal Braverman-Blumenstyk, Assaf Rappaport, Guy Franklin, and Ori Goshen.

Ben-Gurion University builds Silicon Valley-style campus on Minecraft

Players are tasked with developing a business plan before ultimately presenting their company to a Shark Tank-style panel of investors – all of which takes place inside Minecraft's virtual ecosystem.

 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev's Minecraft campus (main view).

‘Israel Is a Unicorn’: says New York City Mayor Eric Adams

Mayor Adams Hails Israeli Innovation at Tel Aviv Soirée with Business and Tech Leaders.

 New York City Mayor Eric Adams Hails Israeli Innovation at Tel Aviv Soirée

This Israeli university creates more unicorns out of all non-US schools

Stanford research places Tel Aviv University at the forefront of global entrepreneurship.

 Unicorn Business Startup Symbol Vector (Illustration)

Israeli tech startups flock to US amid uncertainty at home

This marks a reversal, as Israel had managed in the past decade to persuade more of its startups to set up their legal identity domestically.

 Israeli national flags flutter in front of an office tower at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020.