Cisco’s chairman and Israel’s Prime Minister signed a strategic agreement to make the eastern Negev into Israel’s first fully digitalized region.  In other news, Cisco signed a financial tech agreement with Bank Hapoalim and paid $293 million for Israeli cloud security company CloudLock.

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-and-cisco-sign-strategic-digital-agreement-1001135101

http://theettingerreport.com/Overseas-Investments/Cisco-highlights-global-confidence-in-Israel%E2%80%99s-cap.aspx

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-cisco-and-hapoalim-sign-fintech-agreement-1001135452

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-cisco-buys-cloud-security-co-cloudlock-for-293m-1001135702