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NeuReality appoints Intel exec Ilan Avital as Chief R&D Officer

Former Intel Vice President of Engineering for Data Center Networking to lead development and commercialization of NeuReality’s AI technology

מתכנת תכנות קוד מהנדס תוכנה מחשב מחשוב

Mapping Israeli high-tech's leading R&D engineers

Ahead of Calcalist's "Developers at the Front" conference, the Mamram and Ofek alumni associations compiled a list of prominent development leaders in Israeli high-tech

Guy Shaviv Fairmatic

Guy Shaviv joins Fairmatic to build R&D hub in Israel

Shaviv will serve as Head of Engineering for Fairmatic and will lead the development of its new R&D hub in Israel, which is recruiting 30 engineers

Shachar Gidron Sayata

Sayata appoints Shachar Gidron as new Vice President of R&D

Gidron will oversee the technological vision and development at Sayata, which has developed a marketplace for insurance brokers and carriers to easily scale their SMB portfolios

Fujitsu establishes new R&D center in Israel to strengthen data and security technologies

28.11.22|Meir Orbach

The Tel Aviv-based center, which is set to open in April 2023, will initially include a team composed of around 10 experts recruited from Israel alongside researchers from Japan and Europe

Meron Colbeci Chekcout

Checkout.com launches R&D center in Tel Aviv

The cloud-based payments service provider is set to hire around 100 employees in Israel for its product and engineering functions over the next 24 months

Fadi Aboud Jack Doweck Marcelo Yuffe Intel Israel

Intel promotes three Israelis to executive technological positions

Fadi Aboud, Jack Doweck, and Marcelo Yuffe were named Intel Fellows, equivalent to VPs, in the processor design and development group

Natasha Shine-Zirkel Wilco

Wilco appoints Natasha Shine-Zirkel as Chief Business Officer

Prior to joining Wilco, Shine-Zirkel was the Business Verticals Group Manager at Fiverr, overseeing over half of the freelancer services catalog

לוגו אפל ירושלים

Apple setting up new R&D center in Jerusalem

27.07.22|Raphael Kahan

The tech behemoth will be opening its third such center in Israel, with the Jerusalem site seeking engineers for the development of Apple’s M1 processors used in Mac desktops and notebooks

Nir Pinhasov Glassbox

Glassbox adds Nir Pinhasov to lead R&D

Pinhasov joins Glassbox from gaming giant Playtika where he most recently served as VP of Engineering

Moti Eliav Intuit

Intuit appoints Moti Eliav as its new Israel Site Leader

21.06.22|James Spiro

Eliav holds more than 30 years of experience and joined Intuit in 2020 as Head of IDX (Intuit Data Exchange) Israel

יוג'ין קנדל כלכלן ישראלי מנכל SNC

“R&D centers do not produce much for the state of Israel”

20.06.22|Shahar Ilan

Former chairman of the National Economic Council, Prof. Eugene Kandel, has surprisingly harsh criticism of the high number of high-tech R&D centers in Israel. He states that this is one of the causes of the high-tech manpower crisis. “It was important that Google & Microsoft come here, however, today there are over 400 companies and we are already on the map”

שרת החדשנות והמדע אורית פרקש הכהן הדמיה של הלוויין הישראלי עמוס 8

Israel to invest NIS 600 million in spacetech R&D

15.05.22|Meir Orbach

The Israel Space Agency and Innovation Authority want to double the number of companies and employees in space tech, plan to launch a research satellite, and attract more high school students

דרור בין מנכל רשות החדשנות

Israeli government not investing enough in R&D, reveals Innovation Authority report

11.05.22|Meir Orbach

Israel was in first place in the OECD in R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP in 2020, but was in last place in government expenditure. According to the report, there are currently 360,000 people employed in high-tech in Israel, 235,000 of which are Jewish men

קו רקיע מרכז תל אביב Tel Aviv Business Center

High-tech continues to blossom, but the rest of Israel’s economy can’t keep up

21.03.22|Doron Broitman

While the high-tech sector is skyrocketing, national welfare expenses in Israel have declined compared to other OECD countries, expanding the already wide gaps between tech employees and the rest

Melio appoints Guy Zipori as VP of R&D

The former co-founder and CEO of Skyline AI will lead R&D as Melio expands to become a leading B2B payments platform

ליאת אשכנזי OwnBackup

Liat Ashkenazi appointed as Senior VP of Engineering at OwnBackup

Ashkenazi previously led data security at cybersecurity company Imperva and also served as an R&D director at Harman

VAST Data opens new development center in Haifa

01.12.21|James Spiro

The new center in Haifa will have 30 employees initially, with that number expected to double in its first few months

פליקס וייסמן ThoughtLeaders

ThoughtLeaders hires Felix Vaisman as VP of R&D

The former VP of R&D at SimilarWeb will be responsible for leading innovation through the expansion of data coverage, the development of new tools, and scaling ThoughtLeaders’ platform

Zeev Farbman זיו פברמן מנכ”ל ומייסד חברת Lightticks

Lightricks to build an 8,600 square feet R&D center in Haifa

22.11.21|Golan Hazani

The company has already started hiring for the new center which will be headed by Idan Megidish. CEO Zeev Farbman said the move “will allow us to reach a large population located in the north of the country"