How Israel Is Becoming a High-Tech Superpower
How Israel Is Becoming a High-Tech Superpower
July 22, 2015
Homeland & Cyber Security, Robotics & High-Tech
Recently, Steve Forbes visited Israel, and particularly Beer-Sheva, to see firsthand how the once sleepy city and young nation are leading the world in cyber security and high-tech. Forbes was deeply impressed by what he saw and noted that “the [industry-government-academia] group is building an evolving ecosystem that is anticipating the companies that have not yet been imagined or created.”
In this in-depth interview by Steve Forbes at the Advanced Technologies Park, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks about the exciting things that are happening in the high-tech powerhouse center emerging in Beer-Sheva.
Steve Forbes: By all accounts Israel is now one of the top two or three high-tech powers in the world – ahead of the European Union, with its 500 million people. You’ve done this with 8 million people. How?
PM: We decided here, in the middle of the Negev Desert, to bring in our special information units of the Israeli army and put them right next to Ben-Gurion University.
And right next to that — all within 100 yards — to build a cyber industrial park to bring in the leading companies of the world. And they’re here. We have this interaction between our finest military and cyber security minds and the finest at the University and the nearby businesses.
This is a hub, and it’s exploding. You’ve been here for just a few hours, but you can see this; I mean, it’s literally going through the roof. And I’m delighted with this.”
Forbes and Netanyahu discuss the many fields where Israel is leading the world, including cyber security, milk production and water desalination and reuse.
Read or view a video of the full interview on the Forbes website >>
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