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Winners of the 2026 ERC starting grants, from left to right, top row: Dr. Sharon Fleischer, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Leeat Keren, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Reuma Gadassi-Polack, Bar-Ilan University, Dr. Hagai Maron, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Dr. Nir Hananya, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; bottom row, from left to right: Dr. Ran Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University, Dr Amit Vinograd, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Michael Chapman, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Or Zamir, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Arnold Filtser, Bar-Ilan University. (Photo of Keren, courtesy/Itai Belson; photo of Vinograd, courtesy/Yael Tzur; photo of Filtser, courtesy/Gabe Gomez; all other photos, courtesy)
September 3, 2026, 2:35 pm
Ten Israeli researchers awarded prestigious EU starting grants
Rising scholars from Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, Weizmann Institute and Technion to receive over $17 million in total European Research Council funding
By Diana Bletter
Itai Gafni (left) and Roy Weisfeld, co-founders of Israeli cybersecurity startup Huskeys in Tel Aviv. (Yair Glazer)
September 2, 2026, 10:33 pm
US giant Blackstone invests in Israeli cyber startup tackling malicious AI web traffic
Tel Aviv-based Huskeys is building technology to manage and secure internet traffic generated by AI agents and other autonomous systems acting online rather than by humans
By Sharon Wrobel
Left to right: A digital billboard for Anthropic's Claude AI seen at Times Square, New York City, June 20, 2026. (Brian Logan/iStock); Decart founders Dean Leitersdorf (left) and Moshe Shalev. (Amit Elkayam)
August 14, 2026, 2:39 am
Anthropic reportedly in talks to buy Israeli-founded AI startup at $6B valuation
Potential acquisition of Decart, which is working to boost chip efficiency and develop generative AI models, would be Anthropic’s first acquisition in Israel and largest to date
By Sharon Wrobel
Employees at Tel Aviv-based venture group Team8. (Courtesy)
August 13, 2026, 12:38 am
Backed by Walmart and Cisco, Israel’s Team8 raises $365m to help build AI startups
Venture group plans to use funds for investing in 16 companies that focus on software infrastructure needed for businesses to securely manage AI agents in workloads
By Sharon Wrobel
Israeli NeuroAI startup Hemispheric builds an AI model to decipher the language of the brain. (Courtesy of David Garb)
August 5, 2026, 3:34 am
Israeli startup looks to harness AI to decode the ‘language’ of the brain
Hemispheric says its AI model, trained on EEG data from 100,000 people, can translate a brain’s electrical activity to diagnose conditions like PTSD, but tech yet to be proven, expert warns
By Sharon Wrobel
Team at AI security startup Onyx Security. (Courtesy of Netanel Tobias)
July 30, 2026, 9:02 pm
Israeli cyber startup raises $113m to secure and control autonomous AI agents
Onyx Security is developing technology to govern the use of advanced autonomous systems as companies hand more of their workflows to an army of AI agents
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative image of cybersecurity threats and data breaches. (iStock via Getty Images)
July 23, 2026, 9:39 pm
Cisco backs Israeli cyber startup led by Iranian-born security veteran
Zafran Security is the developer of software to detect and mitigate cyber threats by unifying existing security tools, as AI advances reduce the time defenders have to act
By Sharon Wrobel
AppsFlyer founders Reshef Mann, left, and Oren Kaniel. (Courtesy/Appsflyer PR)
June 23, 2026, 5:25 pm
Backed by Google and Meta, Israeli ad performance company raises over $1 billion
AppsFlyer gets capital injection from 4 top ad platforms to develop independent ad measurement tools for the AI era, designed to help firms gauge the success of marketing campaigns
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustration of a launch into space, with elements of image furnished by NASA. (Elen11/istock by Getty Images)
December 3, 2025, 8:26 pm
Israeli startup unveils quest for electromagnetic launcher to shoot cargo into space
Moonshot, led by an Iron Dome veteran, developing hypersonic launcher that it hopes will deliver small to medium payloads to orbit on the cheap within five years
By Sharon Wrobel
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman attends a plenum session at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 18, 2025, 1:41 pm
Green groups petition High Court to enforce NIS 11 million government funding pledge
Representing environmental organizations, Adam Teva V’Din says environmental protection minister’s refusal to issue calls for the cash is ‘legally unfounded’
By Sue Surkes
A ceremony marks rebuilding in Kibbutz Nir Oz, August 7, 2025, almost two years after the October 7 massacre. (Tsafrir Abayov/FLASH90)
August 11, 2025, 11:55 pm
Jewish National Fund to give $220 million to rehabilitate war-hit communities
Transitioning from immediate emergency help to longterm rehabilitation, the organization will spend 10% of the sum on Kibbutz Nir Oz near the Gaza border, hit hard on Oct. 7
By Sue Surkes
Israeli soldiers walking next to buildings destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7, 2023, near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, November 21, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 2, 2025, 4:53 pm
Kibbutz Nir Oz and state agree on $95 million budget to rebuild devastated community
Plan, expected to be approved by members’ assembly in coming days, will include building of new neighborhood for first returnees to the community worst-hit on Oct. 7
By Sue Surkes
Synergy7's R&D robotics lab in Beersheva. (Sali Petel)
December 15, 2024, 9:47 am
Negev-based consortium helps war-hit startups reach US, Singapore and UAE markets
Synergy7, backed by the Israel Innovation Authority, Elbit and Dell, sets up an innovation hub in Beersheba to give businesses access to tech space and develop the country’s south
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative. An employee works in the tech sector. (Hadas Porush/ Flash90)
August 29, 2024, 6:53 pm
Despite industry resilience, Israeli tech firms have a host of woes as Gaza war drags on
Reserve duty, sky-high travel costs and forced relocation are weighing on smaller companies as they cut, scramble and reorient while trying to prove their worth to investors
By Shoshanna Solomon
Israeli startup JaxBio is developing a simple blood test harnessing liquid biopsy technology for fast, affordable and highly sensitive diagnosis of cancer and other diseases. (Courtesy)
July 17, 2024, 7:22 pm
Nine Israeli startups secure $142 million in funding from EU Horizon program
Israel ranks third in Europe in terms of the number of startups to win funding from the European Innovation Council’s accelerator program, following Germany and France
By Sharon Wrobel
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