Start up nation

Defense Ministry orders boost Israeli startups

Total funding raised by companies that received a direct order from MAFAT in 2025 was $1.2 billion

The Israel Defense Forces announced that troops from the 10th Brigade have wrapped up a series of operations around the Yellow Line in the Khan Yunis area.
Startup Nation meets the Scale-Up State in Texas

Startup Nation meets the Scale-Up State: Israeli innovation heads to Texas

Integrating ultra-Orthodox students into research activities. Photographed in the laser laboratory at the Jerusalem College of Technology.

Israeli tech salaries rose in 2025, but jobs fell and gaps widened

A member of a research team who, as they say, have developed an implant of genetically engineered cells into the injured spinal cord of paralysed mice that has helped them walk again works at a laboratory at Tel Aviv University, Israel February 6, 2022. Picture taken February 6, 2022.

Your Taxes: Israel’s R&D edge over other OECD countries


Robots could be new hardware of Start-up Nation, head of Israeli Robotics Association contends

Prof. Shiller believes Israel needs its own robotics institute, not only to advance its hi-tech industry but to make the country self-sufficient in a less globalized world and offer aid to the needy.

 Illustrative image of robots.

Start-up Nation Central hosts conference for business leaders from Israel, Bahrain

The conference aims to bring together government officials and businesspeople from major companies and organizations to address global challenges

 Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa greets Israel's President Isaac Herzog in Bahrain.

Start-Up Nation Central to hold Connect2Innovate business conference in Bahrain

Start-Up Nation Central connects governments, companies and investors with the Israeli economy.

Skyline with roads, towers and harbor of Manama, Bahrain

Ex-IDF intel. officials break new cybersecurity ground in bid to transform the cloud

A new company led by an ex-chief of IDF intelligence Unit 8200 aims to make the cloud defendable against cyberattacks.

Keep your head in the cloud

Why is the hi-tech sector protesting against the judicial reform?

Israel Innovation institute founder: 'If you kill the hi-tech sector, the consequences will be huge.'

 WORKERS FROM the hi-tech sector protest against the proposed changes to the legal system, in Tel Aviv, on Tuesday.

WATCH: Founder of billion dollar Israeli company drilled at home. It didn't end well

Oren Kaniel, CEO and co-founder of the successful Israeli marketing analytics start-up AppsFlyer, is on paternity leave. Watch what happened.

AppsFlyer co-founders CTO Reshef Mann (L) and CEO Oren Kaniel.

Start-Up Nation Central is making its mark at COP27

Just days into the international conference, SNC said it has already started a regional initiative that it believes will bring countries in the ‘neighborhood’ to work together.

 The Israel pavilion at Sharm e-Sheikh in Egypt for COP27.

Israel isn't the Start-Up Nation. It's the Jewish state - opinion

Israel did not fight its many wars out of allegiance to the microchip. Judaism is the basis for the past, present and future Jewish state.

 A soldier casts his ballot in the Israeli general elections a day early at the Har Dov military base on Mount Hermon, on October 31, 2022.

Pinecone Systems releases the next stage of search engine evolution

‘Vector search’ fuses the two dominant search models – keyword and semantic – into one system that will enable companies to offer the highest level search results possible.

 Search Engine Land search marketing blog word visualizations at Online Marketing Blog.

Israeli innovators win $2 million Climate Solutions Prize

Hundreds of people attended the Climate Solutions Prize Festival in the Hulda forest in central Israel.

Dr. Doron Markel, Chief Scientist KKL-JNF; Jeff Hart, Executive Chair of the Climate Solutions Prize; Galit Levi, Chief Officer Climate Solution Prize; Avi Hasson, CEO of Start-Up Nation Central.