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20 stories about R&D

מיכל רומי, מנכ"לית SAP ישראל

SAP names Michal Romi Managing Director of its Israeli R&D center

31.08.26|Meir Orbach

Romi will succeed Orna Kleinmann, who is moving to a senior global role overseeing AI activities for SAP’s cloud platform

קו רקיע מרכז תל אביב Tel Aviv Business Center

Facing talent shortage - Israel launches NIS 5 million program to bring AI experts home

The program seeks to accelerate the integration of experts and entrepreneurs from abroad into Israel’s tech ecosystem, focusing on two main tracks: identifying experts overseas and encouraging multinational companies to expand their R&D operations in Israel.

גבריאל סויסא מייסד שותף ב-Fundamental

AI unicorn Fundamental expands Israel operations as it scales enterprise AI push

19.05.26|Meir Orbach

The startup is recruiting dozens of engineers in Tel Aviv to expand NEXUS platform.

Shlomi Shemesh Eliran Naim

DoorLoop names new R&D and data leaders

Shlomi Shemesh will serve as Senior Vice President of Research and Development, while Eliran Naim has joined as Vice President of Data & Analytics.

BIRD Foundation approves $6.55 million for six new projects

29.07.24|James Spiro

The projects relate to innovations in Environment, Electro-optics, Healthcare IT, and Quantum Computing

Gloat appoints Itay Kinnrot as Vice President of Research and Development

Kinnrot, former VP of R&D at Peech and Kaltura, will lead the growth and innovation strategy at the company

Daniela Krispin

Novidea appoints Daniela Krispin as VP, Research & Development

Krispin previously served as Head of AI & Data at Amdocs, VP R&D at Seebo and VP R&D at Augury

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