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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.
- 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.