I believe there is a culture in Israel for innovation, and since people see that many start-ups are being promoted and sold and doing great stuff, it gives you motivation to create more.
– Asaf Toker, CEO SeeVooV
The fact that Israel is emerging as the startup is hardly a surprise for any prudent observer of the post war geo-political trends. Israel as a country itself comes off as a startup, taking the Jewish diaspora into account, the country is composed of a somewhat theistic yet multicultural ecosystem ripe for fostering startups.
With a population of around 8.5 million, it has the total prevalence of start-ups per capita in the world, with around one start-up per 1,400 people. This phenomenon earned the ire of companies with a global scope – and global ambitions – including those in the airline industry. Attention from mature industries seems to have incentivized a “yes-we-can” ethos among young professionals in Israel.
Israel: The Story of David and Goliath
Israel is a relatively newer nation when compared to some of the other technological hegemonies in the world, seriously, IBM is older than the country of Israel. However, despite being a small market Israel has become the most immersive place in recent global automotive and technological developments. Ford, Nissan, and Renault have set up their respective research centres in the country encouraging the Silicon Valley tag, several component manufacturers like BMW, Hyundai and Lear have also moved their R&D headquarters to the country as well.
Giants like Facebook, Samsung and google came forward and invested in Israeli companies too which are technologically tethered. The country is home to more than 5,000 start-ups and pertains to tech innovation. The Israeli government constantly supports technological companies that have been relentlessly working on new innovations, another reason is the ardent exposure to advanced exposure to technology through the armed forces.
IDF and Innovation
Since the citizens are made obligatorily to serve in the armed forces, this helps implement and develop innovative technologies across various different sectors. It enables them to learn how to find solutions when you have a quandary, and you do not have the means to fix it—you need to think beyond the box!
Israeli society has a unique DNA that seeks solutions that are both flexible and simple. In addition, the immense technical expertise gained in the Israeli army, combined with the help of the ecosystem, creates a unique fertile ground for creative ideas. There are a lot of industry sectors, like Silentium which develops noise-reduction technology that makes trains, airports and even airplanes quieter places, there are also cyber-intelligence units which train young Israeli recruits in coding, hacking and cyber-espionage these agencies stand on par with even the NSA in every scale.
Since there is a prominent culture of establishing culture close to home there is a desire to keep R&D within Israel as a common denominator. The Israeli entrepreneurial ecosystem is unique compared to other areas in the world in various ways, including the quality of the workforce, the level of creativity, the speed of thinking and the execution additionally, there is a level of knowledge sharing between the different players that is almost unheard of, and that assists the entire ecosystem to quickly evolve and develop superb and elegant solutions that assist global corporations.
Israel The Attention Grabber
Then there is the geographical element. Israel is a very small place – only nine miles wide at certain points and everything is a drive away reducing the strenuous commute. Key players in the airline industry have been investing in the region, which in turn has been fostering new solutions from start-ups, both emerging and established. In recent years, different companies in the airline industry, as well as in other domains of travel, have come to Israel in order to found centres for R&D, innovation, and investments.
The increase in the scale of these companies’ activities is prompting more start-ups to adapt their technology to suit the airline industry and the travel industry, and this trend is likely to continue in the future. As a result, the various players in the sector are constantly enjoying intelligent technologies and the highest standards of innovation in the world.
The Road Ahead
Though still achieving some B2C milestones and innovating in all of these buzzword categories (such as AI, VR, AR, IoT), Israeli entrepreneurs have a marked propensity to set up B2B start-ups. The Israeli market is relatively limited in favour of fiscal potential but entrepreneurs are pushing innovation in almost every sector, including cybersecurity, med-tech, autonomous driving, energy, machine learning, agritech, drones, aviation, travel, aerospace and more to further and build Israel’s innovation culture and tech influence around the world.
its actually way simpler than that. Israel has a direct feed of all NSA data. Every phone call, email, text, discord message, code commit, conversation. They have tapped the life of every tech worker in America at no cost to them. They are involved in industrial scale espionage on the American tech industry. Then America sends them billions of dollars a year in aid, which they invest into developing technology. They also don’t have to pay for their own military defense; the US handles that. On top of this ridiculously unfair informational, and economic advantage, they assassinate the scientists of competing ethnic groups earning them the nickname “killers of prophets” I hope this has been educational for you.