Erel Margalit

Over 30 start-ups return Israel's northern tech hub as new recovery plan takes shape

Erel Margalit brought US business leaders and Jewish organizations together in New York to advance investment, jobs and long-term growth in northern Israel.

Erel Margalit speaks at a New York gathering focused on a long-term recovery and growth plan for the Galilee.
 Erel Margalit at the JNF-USA conference last week

Erel Margalit Calls for Paradigm Shift in Israeli Security, Diplomacy, and Economic Development

THETARAY uses artificial intelligence to detect suspicious patterns of activity in 'innocent' accounts

Israel-Hamas war: This Israeli start-up is targeting Hamas's funding

 Erel Margalit and Zachy Hennessey

Israel at war - How is the high-tech sector doing?


New Yorkers march in solidarity with Israeli protesters

The march over the Brooklyn Bridge was part of a global solidarity movement that has flourished in the city with the most Israelis outside of Israel.

 People visit the Brooklyn Bridge during hot weather in New York City, US, July 13, 2023.

Grapevine: Crowded capital

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Yesh Atid protestors demonstrating on a bridge over a busy street in Jerusalem

Haifa’s ecosystem is leading digital health in the Post-COVID era 

Innovators and hi-tech entrepreneurs from Haifa and the surrounding area meet in order to celebrate the emergence of a new ecosystem in digital health startups.

 MSC Haifa digital dealth demo day: Erel Margalit, JVP chairman, with company founders and partners.

Bahrain’s Minister of Industry & Commerce visits Margalit Startup City

Chairman Erel Margalit stressed the opportunity to increase cooperation via Israeli technology with Bahrain and countries across the region.

  Minister Zayed Bin Rashid Al Zayani.

Top Arab VC entrepreneur visits Klil’s butterfly park

The park is an open compound, and not a closed greenhouse, to allow butterflies in the area to stay and reproduce in the park.

 From L to R: Tzuri Daboosh, Imad Telhami, Rim Telhami.

Digital Health start-ups meet with Margalit Startup City Haifa

"Israel can become a digital health power, just like it became a global cyber power."

 EREL MARGALIT (right) and Prof. Ran Balicer.

'Galilee, Negev will be next dimensions of Israeli hi-tech'

Israel needs to open up hi-tech to new communities in new regions, and create innovation centers in the periphery as well as establish new growth areas. 

 EREL MARGALIT, JVP founder and chairman, at Margalit Startup City New York

Haifa launches digital health accelerator for start-ups

JVP Foundation and Margalit Start-Up City founder: 220% increase in investment in past two years.

 Start-Up City Haifa-Digital Health Accelerator

When Tel Aviv met Kiryat Shmona

Tel Aviv mayor Ron Huldai visited the up-and-coming tech scene in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona on Sunday and vowed to build collaborations between the two cities.

 Margalit Foodtech Center

JVP expands operations and adds new partners

JVP completed 2020 with 14 new investments in companies that promise to be game-changers in the interface between technology and the global market.

(L-R): Alex Dikman, Shimrit Kenig, Erel Margalit, Julia Kagan, Daniel Cohen, Shai Schiller.