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Erel Margalit

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani speaks in front of the Unisphere in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (AP/Heather Khalifa)
November 10, 2025, 3:42 pm
Mamdani win rattles Israeli business community in New York City
After flocking to city, Israeli-founded firms brace for a mayor who backs BDS and could freeze them out of government contracts or cut vital ties that have fostered innovation
By Sharon Wrobel
The damage after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit a building in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, February 11, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 22, 2024, 9:03 am
Refusing evacuation, those who remain in Kiryat Shmona cling to home and brace for ‘hell’
Saying their presence on the war-torn border helps guard the center, some 20% of the northern city’s residents won’t budge despite financial uncertainty and frequent rocket strikes
By Canaan Lidor
Erel Margalit, owner of Jerusalem Venture Partners, holds a meeting of hi-tech entrepreneurs in New York, September 21, 2023. (Tal Schneider/Times of Israel)
September 23, 2023, 11:14 am
Anti-overhaul activists meet NY tech leaders: ‘We’re facing a protracted campaign’
Reservists’ protest group seeks funding as they tell 40 tech founders and CEOs that the fight against government efforts to remake judiciary ‘won’t end soon’
By Tal Schneider
Chen Zimbalista conducts a concert in Kiryat Shmona on May 22, 2023. (Leonid Novikov)
June 1, 2023, 11:01 pm
Galilee street concert offers respite from locals’ polarization surrounding overhaul
Hundreds attend conciliatory event in Kiryat Shmona, where left-leaning kibbutzniks and right-wing residents have been picketing for weeks
By Canaan Lidor
Erel Margalit, founder and chairman of JVP at a protest against the judicial overhaul in Haifa. (Micha Brickman/Courtesy)
April 25, 2023, 4:53 pm
Tech investors are waiting for ‘sanity’ to return to Israel, says JVP founder
Israeli entrepreneur and investor Erel Margalit says tech workers’ protests show that the government will not succeed with judicial overhaul push
By Sharon Wrobel
Erel Margalit outside Margalit Startup City/JVP cyber security hub, a joint project with the City of New York, on February 3, 2020. (courtesy/Shahar Azran)
September 14, 2022, 6:05 pm
New York City sets up climate tech innovation hub with Israeli venture firm JVP
New center in Manhattan to operate in partnership with BMW, be part of Margalit Startup City NYC, home to $100m cybersecurity hub
By Ricky Ben-David
JVP founder Erel Margalit, center launches the food tech innovation center at Margalit Startup City Galil in Kiryat Shmona, in September 2021. (Courtesy)
December 30, 2021, 5:55 pm
A model for inclusion? Tech investor Erel Margalit touts Startup City hubs
Founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners says cities and regions hold key to fostering lasting innovation, reducing inequality
By Ricky Ben-David
Attendees at the inauguration of a new food tech innovation center called Margalit Startup City Galil in Kiryat Shmona, on Thursday, September 2, 2021. (Courtesy)
September 2, 2021, 7:34 pm
New innovation hub to foster Israeli food tech ‘revolutions’
Erel Margalit, founder of Jerusalem Venture Partners, says Israeli food tech sector could soon become a world-leading industry like cybersecurity
By Ricky Ben-David and AFP
Participants of the joint Israeli-Arab-Palestinian "tech-pitch" event in Jerusalem organized by JVP. The images of some of the participants are blurred to protect their identity and security (Courtesy)
May 30, 2021, 5:26 pm
Israeli-Arab-Palestinian tech-pitch night brings sliver of hope to fraught ties
A Jerusalem tech event hosted by venture fund JVP brings together, some by Zoom, 60 entrepreneurs from Jerusalem, Gaza, Nablus, Rahat and the UAE
By Shoshanna Solomon
An illustration of the AnyClip video technology (Courtesy)
May 25, 2021, 1:20 pm
AnyClip raises $47 million, planning to bring its video platform to enterprises
Tel Aviv- and NY-based startup, a provider of software for content producers to develop and distribute videos, is introducing AI tools and targeting the business sector
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative image of artificial intelligence research, robots and banking (Blue Planet Studio; iStock by Getty Images)
February 21, 2021, 3:08 pm
Fintech startup Earnix raises $75m, attains ‘unicorn’ status at valuation of $1b
Funds raised will help startup access new markets, finetune software that helps banks and insurers offer clients personalized pricing and products
By Shoshanna Solomon
The southeastern view of the planned railway station development project in Jerusalem (Courtesy Jerusalem municipality)
November 11, 2020, 10:50 am
Soho, Jerusalem: Huge plan puts old train station on track to be new city center
Developers of massive project around First Station include Erel Margalit and Rami Levy, each with acres of land to develop apartments, offices, hotels and retail space
By Jessica Steinberg
The Israeli tech delegation to the UAE led by JVP (Elad Gutman)
October 25, 2020, 1:18 pm
Food, cybersecurity firms leave for UAE in bid to forge tech ties
Delegation invited by the Dubai International Financial Center is led by JVP’s Erel Margalit; webinar series also seeks to boost cooperation in healthcare
By Shoshanna Solomon
Erel Margalit outside Margalit Startup City/JVP cyber security hub, a joint project with the City of New York, on February 3, 2020. (courtesy/Shahar Azran)
February 4, 2020, 3:05 am
As threats grow, NYC launches $100 million Israeli-run cybersecurity hub
City picks Jerusalem Venture Partners to manage new tech hub in downtown Manhattan, with hopes to create thousands of jobs to boost online security for companies and individuals
By Melanie Lidman
Mars, Incorporated, a US maker of candy and pet food, is joining forces with Jerusalem Venture Partners to scout for food technologies in Israel (YouTube screenshot)
May 15, 2019, 4:03 pm
US maker of Twix, M&M’s to scout for foodtech in Israel with JVP
VC fund JVP and food behemoth Mars Inc. will work with Israeli startups and academia to find tech solutions to global food challenges
By Shoshanna Solomon
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