Going into 2023, the Israel Innovation Authority has earmarked NIS 150 million ($43 million) for the establishment of new consortiums to support the development of technologies in three areas: integrated photonics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and black soldier fly farming.
The selected consortiums, a group of industrial companies and research institutions that will jointly develop technologies, will use the allocated funding to operate over the next three years.
Israel is losing some of its brightest and best minds as tech professionals, engineers and academics leave its shores, thus depriving the country of fuel for its economy, a policy report warns.
The figures presented in “Leaving the Promised Land — A look at Israel’s emigration challenge” — released by the Shoresh Institution for Socioeconomic Research, an independent nonpartisan center headed by Prof. Dan Ben-David — are bleak.
Last summer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a number of intimate briefings with Israeli media outlets in an attempt to counter the negative image of him that he believed they were falsely propagating.
