Jerusalem – Israel’s burgeoning high-tech capital

Forget antiquities; Jerusalem today is emerging as one of the most exciting centers for cutting-edge technology in the world.
Technology centers like the Har Hotzvim industrial park in Jerusalem are attracting high-tech startups. Photo by Flash90

Jerusalem’s high-tech scene is flourishing with thousands of entrepreneurs, hundreds of startups and an innovative community growing all the time.

Entrepreneur Magazine named Jerusalem among its top five places outside of Silicon Valley for tech startups to launch and thrive, calling Israel’s capital a ‘flourishing center for biomed, cleantech, Internet/mobile startups, accelerators, investors and supporting service providers.’

“Jerusalem has 500 companies working in tech today. There’s amazing co-working spaces and investors, and international companies that want to partner and do things. Every day there’s a tech event in the city. It’s an amazing community,” says Roy Munin, CEO of Made in JLM.

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