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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 422

Ami Appelbaum

Illustrative image of employees working in the tech sector. (Hadas Porush/Flash90)
October 6, 2024, 9:37 pm
Fears of a ‘lost decade’: Will the tech sector be able to save the war-hit economy?
One year on from the Hamas onslaught, experts fret over whether economic recovery is possible in the face of government inaction to bolster a key growth engine
By Sharon Wrobel
The Tel Aviv office of Israeli startup Cortica; Feb. 12, 2019 (Shoshanna Solomon/Times of Israel)
June 16, 2021, 5:32 pm
Good news and bad news: Israel’s maturing ecosystem means plunge in new startups
Last year saw just 520 startups set up, way down from 1,400 in 2014; Innovation Authority says policies must cater to both startups and later-stage firms
By Shoshanna Solomon and AFP
Dr Ami Appelbaum, the chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority and Chief Scientist at the Ministry of Economy and Industry (Israel Innovation Authority)
March 24, 2020, 2:30 pm
Keep your workers, Israel chief scientist urges, as virus threatens startups
Ami Appelbaum says the pandemic will close some tech firms but create opportunities; hopes his Innovation Authority will be soon be able to release delayed grants for R&D projects
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative image of a robot; artificial intelligence (PhonlamaiPhoto; iStock by Getty Images)
January 14, 2019, 6:01 am
Israel needs national vision for AI or risks falling behind, tech authority says
Israel Innovation Authority urges government, academia, industry to join forces for advances in artificial intelligence as global race is underway
By Shoshanna Solomon
Traffic on a Tel Aviv highway. (Craig Johnson)
June 7, 2018, 2:10 pm
Israel sets out new program to fast-track smart-transit projects
NIS 30 million per year will fund new technologies and help startups run pilots of their products by speeding up regulation
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative image of a woman using a laptop computer. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)
June 4, 2018, 2:23 pm
Operators selected to run boot camps to teach coding amid worker pinch
The country badly needs programmers, and the training courses aim to churn out some 2,000 highly qualified ones over the next five years
By Shoshanna Solomon
Israel's Minister of Economy and Industry, Eli Cohen, left, and Ami Appelbaum, chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority and Chief Scientist of the ministry (Courtesy: Ministry of Economy Spokesperson Office)
September 13, 2017, 3:46 pm
Israel picks new chief scientist to steer innovation policies
Ami Appelbaum, with a career in industry and defense, to serve as the next chairman of the Israel Innovation Authority
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: A police officer in the southern French city of Toulouse, June 2012. (Bruno Martin/AP)
September 13, 2017, 1:57 pm
7 said wounded, 3 of them cops, in terror attack in Toulouse
Assailant shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ as he was wrestled to the ground by police, eyewitnesses say
By ToI Staff
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