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Israeli hi-tech industry
Inbal Arieli
April 19, 2018, 11:52 am
Inbal Arieli
Wisdom from 70 of Israel’s tech wizards
Behind the numbers and statistics is the complicated mosaic of the people who drive industry
Sari Taha, program manager for Rawabi's collaborative workspace 'Connect,' lectures visitors. (Courtesy)
February 4, 2018, 5:21 pm
With all his chips in, Palestinian businessman aims to build ‘Silicon Rawabi’
Companies that have moved to new West Bank city tech hub so far are almost exclusively owned or funded by its builder, Bashar Masri
By Dov Lieber
The rooftop pool and lounging area at Publica, the new Isrotel business hotel in Herzliya (Courtesy, Assaf Pinchuk)
November 11, 2017, 8:58 am
Isrotel’s Publica caters to Herzilya’s Silicon Wadi crowd
The first boutique business hotel of its kind, located in the heart of Israel’s startup core
By Grace Austin
Aerial view of the Robert Moses Dam, part of the Niagara Power Project, Lewiston, New York, where the mPrest system is located. (Courtesy)
October 29, 2017, 9:06 pm
New York’s power plants now protected, using Israel’s Iron Dome technology
After alarming outages in 2012 and 2014, the New York Power Authority turns to the Start-Up Nation for help keeping its systems secure
By Cathryn J. Prince
Representatives for Mellanox, Rawabi and ASAL discussed the prospects for Israeli and Palestinian tech partnerships, in Tel Aviv. 12 July 2017 (Courtesy)
September 20, 2017, 12:57 pm
Quietly, Israeli high-tech companies contract Gaza engineers
In Hamas-led Strip, where collaboration with Jewish state can be deadly, some Palestinian firms increasingly forge business ties with Israeli industry
By AFP and TOI staff
Shahar Friedman from Visa and the Israeli team. (Anthony Upton)
September 13, 2017, 12:57 pm
Israeli startups shine at Visa’s Everywhere Initiative competition
Israel excels in the Visa Everywhere Initiative with strong representation across all stages, eventually producing two of the three winners
By TOI staff
Shimon Peres with children at the Peres Center for Peace (Peres Center for Peace Archives)
May 1, 2017, 12:51 pm
Marking Israel’s first Independence Day without dreamer-in-chief Shimon Peres
Son Chemi Peres says his father left a compass and tools to help the country follow his path of making technology, not war
By Shoshanna Solomon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Beijing hotel room, interviewed by The Times of Israel's diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren (left) and Times of Israel's Chinese editor Yifeng Zhou (Times of Israel staff)
March 23, 2017, 6:01 am
Netanyahu to Times of Israel Chinese: I hope Beijing’s ‘superb’ relations with Israel will affect its UN votes
PM says new bilateral partnership on innovation underlines China’s readiness to apply Israeli technology for the benefit of its people; also says he discussed Chinese role in rail route from Asia to Israeli Mediterranean ports
By Raphael Ahren and Yifeng Zhou
Celebrating Purim in a Dublin pub are Israelis (from left) Elad Michaely, Itamar Sinai, Michael Dulberg, Arik Warshager, Mattan Lass and Oren Shpigel. Sinai and Warshager have lived in Ireland for 17 and 14 years, respectively, and give advice to the newcomers. (Michael Riordan/Times of Israel)
March 17, 2017, 12:24 pm
Will the next generation of Irish Jews have a touch of Hebrew to their brogue?
For the first time in generations, the Emerald Isle’s Jewish community is growing — with Israelis seeking greener pastures
By Michael Riordan
Interns from the Palestinian Internship Program (PIP) on a visit to Microsoft R&D center in Herzliya on July 20, 2016. (Courtesy)
March 3, 2017, 1:42 pm
Can Startup Nation be an incubator for Palestinian high-tech entrepreneurs?
Initiative brings high-potential IT grads from West Bank, Jerusalem, to intern, soak up experience in multinational and Israeli companies
By Dov Lieber
Founders of the Middle East Business Forum at Tel Aviv University, 26-year-old Jowan Qupty (right), who is from Jerusalem, and 31-year-old Jesse Divon (left). The forum was launched January 22, 2017. (Courtesy)
January 24, 2017, 6:08 pm
Set your sights nearer: Forum urges Israel entrepreneurs to market to Arab world
At launch of Middle East Business Forum, American-Israeli Yadin Kaufmann tells why, how he co-founded 1st venture capital firm to target Palestinian start-ups
By Dov Lieber
Participants at the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference, Israel's largest international Hi-tech gathering, featuring hundreds of start ups, VC’s, angel investors and leading multinationals, held at the Old Train Station complex in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 16, 2017, 8:59 am
Israel to hire foreign high-tech workers to stave off manpower drought
6-year program aims to boost the number of higher education tech students by 40%, encourage women, Arabs, and ultra-Orthodox to enter sector
By Stuart Winer
Eli Groner, director-general of PM Netanyahu's office, August 16, 2015. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
January 12, 2017, 12:57 pm
Top Netanyahu aide: World won’t boycott our high-tech for Palestinians
Recent UN resolution could lead to ‘troubling policies,’ Eli Groner acknowledges, but countries need to decide what’s in their best interest, ‘to be with Israel, or without Israel’
By Raphael Ahren
Eli Fruchter installing some corals into the tank in February, 2013. (Facebook/Eli's 10,000 Gallon Reef Aquarium)
November 20, 2016, 5:49 pm
Israel’s own Aquaman? Meet the CEO who built a home aquarium large enough to swim in
In retirement from his billion-dollar company, Eli Fruchter has constructed his house around a mammoth fish tank that is producing a tidal wave of internet interest
By Yaakov Schwartz
Joanne Wilson, angel investor with an 85-strong portfolio and Birthright Excel mentor. (Courtesy Birthright Excel)
November 15, 2016, 4:51 pm
Angel investors seeking the ‘invisible’ next big thing find women key to Israel’s tech growth
Targeting female demographic, Birthright Excel encourages young Jewish business leaders to interface with Israelis and then act as ambassadors abroad
By Cathryn J. Prince
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