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AI in Israel

A startup-led AI power now adding sovereign, state-backed compute and talent, with light, sector-by-sector regulation.

Profile reviewed 24 Sep 20268 developments tracked

National target for AI processors (Jun 2026)
100,000
Nvidia B200 GPUs in the national supercomputer’s first phase (Jan 2026)
1,000
National AI programme, second phase through 2027
NIS 500m

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Strategy

The Innovation Authority’s national AI programme runs a second phase of NIS 500m through 2027. In June 2026 the government approved a National AI Program with eight priorities, led by a National AI Directorate in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Regulation

No AI law: a 2023 government policy sets non-binding, OECD-aligned principles and leaves AI to sector regulators. Israel signed the Council of Europe AI Convention in 2024.

Compute

The national supercomputer, built by Nebius, went live in Jan 2026 with 1,000 Nvidia B200s. Nvidia is planning a large Kiryat Tivon campus.

Key labs

AI21 Labs, Nvidia Israel, Mobileye, Dicta, Weizmann Institute, Technion.

Notable models

AI21’s Jamba (open hybrid Mamba-Transformer); Dicta-LM 3.0 Hebrew language models (Feb 2026).

What to watch

Whether the 100,000-GPU goal gets funded; whether Nebius buys AI21 Labs; how Nvidia’s new campus develops.
Sources
  1. Second phase of AI programme (Israel Innovation Authority)
  2. Nebius supercomputer (Israel Innovation Authority)
  3. Supercomputer first phase live (DCD)
  4. National AI Program approved (INN)
  5. Israel regulatory tracker (White & Case)
  6. Nvidia campus (Calcalist)
  7. Nebius–AI21 talks (Globes)
  8. Dicta-LM 3.0 (arXiv)

Israel on the timeline

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  1. Intel agrees to buy Mobileye for $15.3bn
  2. NVIDIA buys Mellanox for $6.9bn
  3. Intel buys AI chipmaker Habana Labs for $2bn
  4. AI21 Labs releases the Jurassic-1 language models
  5. AI21 Labs releases Jamba, a hybrid Mamba model
  6. NVIDIA agrees to acquire Israeli GPU software firm Run:ai

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