CTech's Thursday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Israeli students ditch humanities, enroll in STEM degrees. Teva trending down following underwhelming second quarter revenues.

Israeli students ditch humanities, enroll in STEM degrees. Between 2013 and 2017 the number of students signing up for computer science and math degrees in Israel has gone up 28%, new data reveals. Read more

 

Teva trending down following underwhelming second quarter revenues. On Thursday, the generic drugmaker announced revenues that fell slightly short of analyst consensus. Read more

 

Roboteam's MTGR unmanned ground vehicle. Photo: PR

 

Israeli and U.S. defense robotics companies quarrel over China ties. Israeli Roboteam sued Massachusetts-based competitor Endeavor Robotics over alleged defamation connecting Roboteam to Chinese attempts to obtain U.S. military technologies. Read more

 

Investors focus on cybersecurity, as investments in Israeli startups dwindle. The first half of 2018 saw 260 funding rounds for Israeli startups, totaling $2.42 billion in investments, according to a new report. Read more

 

Paris auto conference to showcase Israeli startups. Calcalist will lead a delegation representing Israeli auto and mobility technologies and innovation to the Paris Motor Show in October. Read more

 

Opinion: the Israeli ecosystem’s superpower is its global thinking. Avichay Nissenbaum of Lool Ventures, an early investor in recently acquired Zooz, explains how the fintech startup highlights the advantage Israeli startups hold over companies from larger markets. Read more

 

News briefs

 

EMEA region drives Radware's second-quarter revenues up. Read more

 

Israeli Elta partners with U.S. company to build drone-mounted a rescue drone. Read more

 

Cybersecurity startup ZecOps raises $3.5 million. Read more