Research and development

The future of Israeli water: The technological revolution

In a special podcast series by The Jerusalem Post, senior executives of Israel’s national water company pull back the curtain on what happens behind the scenes.

View of the Sapir Station belonging to the Israeli Mekorot National Water company, near Kinneret in Northern Israel. December 15, 2010.
The Water reservoir in Netufa, from were the main national water pipes originats and carries water supply to the country, March 9 2011.

Connecting the ends under fire: A national development surge

The Iron Beam laser defense system, pictured in December 2025.

Defense Ministry rolls out Iron Beam laser air defense system across Israel

Automated pharmaceutical conveyor line, robotic arms handling medical vials

Israel's biotech moment: How science, data, and geopolitics are converging - opinion


Uzi Sofer: The pride of Israel

Uzi Sofer is a modern-day pioneer helping materialize inventions that otherwise would never have seen the light of day. 

 Alpha Tau Medical EO and Chairman Uzi Sofer holding the Alpha DaRT vial.

Service robot temi offers a peek into the future of helpful smart machines

The developers take another step toward the next generation of in-home service robots.

 temi in a retail environment.

Cabinet approves joint Israeli-UAE R&D investment fund for hi-tech industry

Over the past 10 years, NIS 300 million will be allocated by Israel and the UAE to encourage R&D in the hi-tech industry.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett meeting with the Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology to the UAE,  Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, December 13, 2021.

Hebrew U, U of I give $200,000 to new medical and agricultural R&D teams

The teams will research topics such as making crops more efficient in photosynthesis and preventing and combatting antibiotic-resistant diseases.

Mount Scopus campus, Hebrew University Jerusalem

Israel going from ‘Start-Up Nation’ to Scale-Up Nation

Israeli tech executives and investors meet in New York to discuss industry reset.

Israel Start up

Israel rejoins EU science program excluding Judea and Samaria

Horizon Europe is the EU’s largest research and development program but excludes funds from disputed territories.

AERIAL VIEW of east Jerusalem: Radical shift

AT&T to open new R&D center in Tel Aviv

The company also plans to recruit an additional 100 employees and significantly expand its activities to cloud solutions.

AT&T logo on a Dallas, Texas building.

Israel reaches agreement with EU on R&D funding

The agreement between Israel and the EU for the seven-year Horizon Europe program should be signed before the end of the year.

European Union flags flutter outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2021

How can Israel grow its hi-tech workforce? - analysis

Filling positions isn't easy, and hi-tech executives regularly complain that there are not enough qualified programmers and engineers available in Israel.

Israeli Tech

Pfizer to ‘Post’: No plans to open COVID-19 vaccine R&D center in Israel

The company contradicts claims made by Netanyahu during the election campaign about research and development centers in Israel.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein meet a shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines at Ben-Gurion Airport on January 10.