Israeli Innovation

The Israeli population is a well educated, industrious work force well adapted to a globalized market.  Hungry for innovation and driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, Israelis have invented some of the most important technological advances of the last 60 years.

Israelis have developed key technologies essential to the digital revolution. Voice mail, camera phone chips, fire wall software, Intel’s Pentium chips, Microsoft XP and Vista, instant messaging and voice over IP all owe their existence to Israeli innovation.  It is no wonder that when Motorola wanted to develop a new technology for a mobile phone in the 1970’s they set up the company's largest development center in Israel and in 1973 started a revolution.  Israeli companies have also been integral to a more recent revolution: green technology.  It was Israeli company Luz that developed the world’s first viable commercial solar power plant and Netafim that created drip irrigation, the water saving system used in water scarce areas the world over to grow food for hundreds of thousands of people.

In medicine, it was Israeli companies that developed zero-radiation computerized detection for breast cancer, new techniques for operating on brain cancer using a stereoscopic miniature camera, and the world’s first ingestible camera used to diagnose digestive disorders ranging from diverticulitis to cancers.

For the better part of the last century Israeli innovation has been integral in paving the way forward to a better future and it is still progressing. Israeli companies are currently developing new technologies that would allow high rise buildings to generate their own power, allow men to take a birth control pill and wire a whole country for electric cars. In a little over 60 years Israel has gone from a country of farmers to a high-tech leader recognized globally for its forward looking people and tenacious pursuit of new and better technology.