The following for credit academic courses are offered IN-PERSON for (Fall 2022/Spring 2023):
Israel: The Startup Nation
Agro-Technology in Israel
(WATCH VIDEO) Agriculture in the Negev: Today’s Desert Pioneers Video
Mentality and Society in 21st Century Israel
Why take these courses?
Israel’s contributions to the US will enhance 2022
As in previous years, in the new year Israel will not be a beneficiary of U.S. foreign aid, but rather an annual U.S. investment. Opinion.
A start-up nation
Israel’s reputation as “start-up nation” is well justified; it has the highest number of start-ups per capita worldwide (with around one start-up per 1,400 inhabitants) and it also ranks among the top countries for patents per capita.
“Silicon Wadi”, the coastal plain region where most high-tech companies in Israel are based, is second only to the Silicon Valley in terms of the number of business start-ups. Every major tech corporation has headquarters there and high-tech clusters continue to thrive thanks to government incentives and policies, and to venture capital (VC).
As 2022 begins, Israel is the most critical partner of the United States in sustaining its edge over China, Russia, Europe and Japan in the development and manufacture of game-changing commercial and military technologies.
In 2022, with merely 0.11 percent of the global population, Israel will remain second only to—and closely collaborating with—the United States with regard to the development of ground-breaking high-tech innovations. Moreover, Israel’s brain power has attracted 20 percent of the global investment in cyber technologies, while Israel’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) startups account for some 20 percent of the global total.
In 2022, Israel will be second only to the United States in the development and manufacturing of commercial, military and dual-use intelligence technologies and systems (e.g., remote-control jammers, counter-IED and booby-trap measures, remote-control explosives neutralization and electronic warfare). In fact, around 60 percent of Israeli-developed intelligence and counter-terrorism systems have reached the United States, through joint ventures with leading U.S. manufacturers, U.S.-owned research and development centers in Israel and U.S. acquisitions from Israeli manufacturers.
Finkelperel Institute for Israeli and Jewish Studies 