At the AWS Tel Aviv Summit, Amazon announced to 2000 IT professionals that it will hire over 100 Israeli technologists in the next 18 months. Amazon bought the Israeli microelectronics firm Annapurna Labs in Jan 2015, for $350 – 370 million, for its Web Services division.
http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2015/06/25/amazon-seeks-highly-skilled-engineers-in-israel/