Israel Active

Canadian-Israeli VC fund Awz Ventures announced plans to build a chip manufacturing plant at an initial investment of NIS 5 billion ($1.6 billion) in the coastal city of Ashkelon. It will produce III-V semiconductors for use in advanced tech, such as AI and specialized defense arrays.

The British Embassy in Israel led a delegation to London for the United Kingdom’s National Quantum Showcase Week. It highlightes efforts to deepen cooperation between the two countries in one of the world’s fastest-growing fields.

Israel’s Bar-Ilan University has welcomed a new cohort of 24 international graduate students from 14 countries to commence their studies in neuroscience. The program underscores Israel’s growing role as a global hub for brain and data science research.

Tel Aviv University researchers conducted Israel’s first ecological–biotechnological seaweed survey. It revealed a natural hotspot of resilient, nutrient-rich species that could serve as a foundation for groundbreaking innovations in food, medicine, and biotechnology.

Nice article featuring Women In Tech Israel and other female IT leaders who are confident that they can provide the ethics, social, and human skills necessary to prevent AI systems from getting out of control.  We shall see!

Israel’s Tenzai (see previously) is replacing laborious, manual, skilled, computer security penetration testing with automated AI-based software. The platform operates continuously, detecting complex and hard-to-find security gaps and helping organizations rapidly fix them.

Israel’s Wonderful AI (see previously) has launched operations in 10 countries, building effective AI agents for customers to enhance efficiency rather than replace human workers. Wonderful’s CEO says, “What’s changing is what people do, not whether they’re needed.”

Israel’s Weizmann Institute was placed sixth in the world in the 2025 ranking of research quality by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University, the Netherlands. This is Weizmann’s highest placement ever by the Leiden Ranking.

Amazing video showing how Israel completely upgraded the F35 combat aircraft, to double its range and equip it with the latest Israeli technology, whilst still keeping it impervious to radar.  This was despite the US manufacturer saying it was impossible.  And now the US wants the upgrade.

With $40 billion of deals since 1996, and annual +$400 million of private funding, Israel is central to the world’s semiconductor supply chain. Israeli R&D underpins Intel’s Gaudi AI processors, Amazon’s Graviton CPUs and Nvidia’s high-speed data center interconnects.