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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

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Illustrative: Employees work inside the offices of the Bezeq telecoms firm in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. - The deadly exchanges of fire between Israel and Lebanon have prompted most people in communities on both sides of the heavily fortified border to leave but some employees of the firm have decided to stay. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
Despite ongoing war, investments in Israeli startups hit three-year high
By Sharon Wrobel
Local tech firms raised $9.3 billion in capital in the first six months of 2025 as foreign investor participation in funding rounds rose
Shoshanna Solomon
AnalysisDistracted Nation: As Israel focuses on wars, its neighbors are gaining in the AI race
By Shoshanna Solomon
Prompt to DALL-E by Shoshanna Solomon: Image of a cyborg draped in an Israeli flag that falls behind in a race with two other cyborgs, one with the UAE flag and one with the Saudi Arabia flag, as Israeli warplanes and an Iranian flag appear in the background. (Shoshanna Solomon)
July 9, 2025, 2:50 pm
Distracted Nation: As Israel focuses on wars, its neighbors are gaining in the AI race
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are increasingly investing money, time and effort into developing a resource that could shift the global power balance. Has Israel missed the bandwagon?
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: Employees work inside the offices of the Bezeq telecoms firm in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona near the border with Lebanon on February 22, 2024. - The deadly exchanges of fire between Israel and Lebanon have prompted most people in communities on both sides of the heavily fortified border to leave but some employees of the firm have decided to stay. (Photo by Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
July 1, 2025, 4:30 pm
Despite ongoing war, investments in Israeli startups hit three-year high
Local tech firms raised $9.3 billion in capital in the first six months of 2025 as foreign investor participation in funding rounds rose
By Sharon Wrobel
The main rehearsal for Israel's Independence Day ceremony, held at Mount Herzl, Jerusalem, on April 28, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 1, 2025, 5:50 am
Israel at 77: Tech economy shows resilience during war, though clouds of change loom
While Israel takes pride in its tech ecosystem, fund managers and tech experts worry that the state is not acting to preserve the talent that keeps the industry thriving
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: Offices of the Jerusalem Venture Partners tech investment firm in Jerusalem, February 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
December 8, 2024, 11:34 pm
Israel is producing fewer new startups, raising concerns about future tech jobs
The past decade has seen the number of newly founded startups plunge 45% and more, creating a potential economic shortfall in the coming years, according to RISE Israel
By Sharon Wrobel
Aerial view of a golf course in Caesarea. June 16, 2012 (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
September 20, 2022, 12:25 pm
Eilat takes a swing with planned desert golf course as Israel tourism expands
Tourism Ministry accepting bids for luxury development to bring new visitors to southernmost city
By Danielle Nagler
A Google building at the company's campus in Mountain View, California, on Sept. 24, 2019. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
February 20, 2022, 6:40 pm
Google to fund $25m tech skills programs for underrepresented Israeli communities
Technology giant says initiative to help diversify workforce, encourage integration of Arab, ultra-Orthodox professionals into high-tech sector
By Ricky Ben-David
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont delivers the State of the State address during opening session at the State Capitol, on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, in Hartford, CT. (AP/Jessica Hill)
February 15, 2022, 7:15 pm
Connecticut governor leading fintech, business delegation to Israel next week
Ned Lamont, who sees the Nutmeg State turning into the Start-Up State, will meet with Bennett, Herzog, Lapid and Israeli entrepreneurs during five-day trip
By Lazar Berman
December 22, 2021, 4:40 pm
Introducing ToI’s Tech Israel
The Israeli tech industry has changed dramatically in the near-decade since The Times of Israel launched; this section’s new name recognizes that journey
By Ricky Ben-David
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
Amnon Shashua, CTO, co-founder and chairman of Mobileye. May 27, 2015. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
March 31, 2020, 1:47 pm
High-tech mogul to present pandemic exit strategy to Knesset committee
Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua and computer scientist Shai Shalev-Shwartz claim their solution can wrap up the current public health crisis in a matter of months
By Sam Sokol
An iPhone running the Health Ministry's HaMagen app, which aims to track the spread of the novel coronavirus and warn users if they have interacted with someone infected. (Sam Sokol)
March 31, 2020, 9:07 am
By voice or location, Israeli apps can determine your risk of coronavirus
Israeli developers working on applications to track spread of COVID-19, while country’s largest hospital makes strides with telemedicine to protect staff
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men work at a high tech start-up in an office in Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
December 16, 2019, 11:50 pm
Most Israeli workers are unhappy with their work-life balance, survey finds
Study suggests most Israelis don’t want to swap their day off from Friday to Sunday, 40% work while sick, and many are disgruntled about not being able to work from home
By ToI Staff
Clockwise from top left: British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis (AP/Chris Jackson); An Amazon fulfillment center in Aurora, Colorado (AP Photo/David Zalubowski); Tiffany Haddish in her 2019 Netflix comedy special, ‘Black Mitzvah,’ (Courtesy Netflix); An illustrative image of neurons, or brain cells (whitehoune; iStock by Getty Images).
December 1, 2019, 4:26 pm
The week’s must-reads: Startup Israel takes on Alzheimer’s and 4 other stories
How nanotechnology could change the world * David Horovitz on UK Chief Rabbi Mirvis’s ‘oy gevalt’ moment * After Amazon’s Israeli Black Friday, Tiffany Haddish’s Black Mitzvah
By ToI Staff
Host and executive producer Jonny Caplan stands in front of an Urban Aeronautics flying car during filming for Season One of 'TechTalk,' to be released on Amazon Prime on October 18, 2019. (Courtesy)
October 18, 2019, 4:27 pm
Amazon launches series on hi-tech, with focus on Israel’s Startup Nation
Released October 18, ‘TechTalk’ gives inside look at over 50 startups across the Jewish state, and is hosted by Anglo-Israelis Jonny Caplan and Jessy Katz of Israel’s ‘The Voice’
By Nadine Wojakovski
A Lasova restaurant soup kitchen employee serves bread to the needy in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
September 11, 2019, 10:04 am
Israeli economic growth overshadows struggles of working poor
According to the National Insurance Institute, almost 1.8 million people live below poverty line
By Guillaume LAVALLÉE
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