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Tech startups hire more women in R&D

Posted on March 17, 2024

A survey by the Israel Innovation Authority and Israel’s Reichman University has determined that 38% of women in the Israeli tech industry held R&D positions last year. This compares to 28% in 2013. Women now hold around one-third of all … Continue reading →

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Bringing orthodox women into hi-tech

Posted on July 2, 2023

Read about Racheli Ganot (see here previously), founder of Israel’s Ready Group, a microchip hardware and software development company of 170 employees (80% women). For her work integrating Orthodox women in hi-tech, Ganot lit a torch at Israel’s 70th Independence … Continue reading →

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UAE invites women-led Israeli agritech startups

Posted on December 18, 2022

Israel’s Dana Global is an investment platform for early-stage women-led start-ups in desert-related agritech, foodtech, water solutions and renewable energy. Dana has partnered Abu-Dhabi-based agritech investor Silal to attract Israeli women-led startups to the UAE ecosystem. https://www.timesofisrael.com/abu-dhabi-based-accelerator-to-promote-female-led-israeli-mena-agritech-startups/

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Middle East women in Tech

Posted on December 18, 2022

Since 2020, the 3-month mentoring program from Israel’s FemForward (see here previously) has helped 100+ Israeli women advance the hi-tech ladder. In Jan 2023, the bi-annual course in Jerusalem will comprise 30 women from Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco … Continue reading →

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Mentoring for women in hi-tech

Posted on April 3, 2022

Israel’s Melio (see here previously) recently launched MentorMe – its mentoring program for female developers that brings together highly-experienced women with those at the beginning of their careers, to learn and discuss the challenges they face. 50 women were selected … Continue reading →

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Israeli women agritech pioneers

Posted on June 20, 2021

Last week’s newsletter featured Biotipac – winner of ACT Foodtech’s “Women of AgriFood Nation” competition. This video highlights the other female-led contestants – Yo-egg, IncrediBowl, Fermata, Maolac and BugEra. All are new to this newsletter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuK-VU64k5I&t=18s

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Women climb the tech ladder

Posted on June 6, 2021

Many Israeli organizations aim to help promote opportunities for women to join the Israeli hi-tech industry (see here previously). Now Jerusalem-based Fem JLM has launched a program – FemForward, offering lectures, mentors and networking to help women in tech progress … Continue reading →

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Elite IDF unit to train women for tech

Posted on March 21, 2021

The Woman2Woman program set up by graduates of the IDF’s elite 8200 tech unit is to train women for positions in Israel’s booming hi-tech industry. The program will partner leading tech companies, including Microsoft Israel, Salesforce, Dell and General Motors. … Continue reading →

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Helping Israeli women get technology jobs

Posted on March 14, 2021

“AI for Women” is a project set up by Bella Abrahams, director at Intel Israel. It uses artificial intelligence tools to analyze and group career advice. A vital resource to help Israeli women launch or boost their tech career and … Continue reading →

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Promoting more women in tech

Posted on January 24, 2021

Ruth Polachek is the Chairwoman, Founder and CEO of “she codes”, a community of 30,000 Israeli female software developers. The goal of “she codes” is to have 50% female representation in the tech industry within a decade. Ruth is also … Continue reading →

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