Israel: leading global technology & innovation between East and West

Between East and West — Israel: Technology & Innovation Powerhouse.
India and Israel share a strong partnership in various sectors.
With a long history in innovative technology, Israel is an AI and hi-tech powerhouse — the world’s second largest Silicon Valley.
Despite being more than 60 per cent desert, Israel has agricultural production surpassing that of its larger rival countries.
Israel, small country with limited natural resources in the middle of a hostile region, is Europe’s main technology hub.
Israel has turned its desert into productive land for efficient agriculture through desalination, drip irrigation technology and wastewater recycling.
Many of the Israel’s founding fathers were scientists and intellectuals who successfully managed to merge a pioneering, enterprising spirit with a culture that valued knowledge and science.

In the past 30 years, Israel has emerged as a leading technology centre between East and West, and can play a significant role in the new economic order.
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Israel’s huge defence budget is one of the main drivers behind innovation.
To become a knowledge-based economy, Israel will have to deal with some issues.
Israelis may be successful at setting up innovative companies, they are less efficient at growing them and distributing the benefits.
There is also a demographic threat to Israel’s success as a global technological powerhouse.
The ultra-Orthodox and Arabs participate less in the labour market than other Israelis and consequently suffer higher rates of poverty.
The value of Israel’s CARAT cryptocurrency is based on the diamonds in Diamond Stock Exchange vaults.

Israel has become a global leader in water innovation and technology. As one of the driest countries in the world, it has the most advanced solutions for adapting to intense droughts and water scarcity.
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What Israel has achieved with smart water management can be replicated by other countries facing desertification.
In relation to the availability of venture capital, Israel ranks third in the world.
Israel holds second place in the world for availability of qualified scientists and engineers.
Many international businesses have research centres in Israel, but do not have headquarters there.
Steve Ballmer is reputed to have said that Microsoft is as much an Israeli business as it is a US one.
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We hope for a peace treaty between Israel and Saudi Arabia, along with the creation of a Palestinian state in Gaza. This new state could be expanded through land reclamation in the sea off the Gaza coast, with its capital named Trump-town. If two people fight about a cake, why not enlarge the cake?
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