Grit Nation: Despite All Odds, Israel’s High Tech Ecosystem Keeps Growing
Israeli tech experts reveal how the same forces that threatened to derail the high tech industry ultimately made it stronger
Thinking about Israel’s high tech industry can bring to mind images of sleek, high-rise buildings in the coastal cities of Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and Haifa. But the next generation of tech founders may hail from peripheral villages far from these urban hubs. That much was clear at a recent tech conference in Tel Aviv, where a group of schoolchildren from the northern Arab-Israeli village of Daburiyya presented a fully functional AI-integrated school entry system, complete with facial recognition technology, smart gate access, and automated attendance tracking.
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