“The initiative opens the door for Israeli teenagers’ involvement with the high-tech industry by bringing it to their community centers and thereby to their very homes and neighborhoods so that even in the peripheral geographical areas of the country Israeli teenagers will be able to enjoy the fruits of this thriving industry,” said Farkash Hacohen. In the first year, the program will be trialed in community centers in the predominantly Arab towns of Baqa al-Gharbiyye and Tamra, the Druze village of Yarka, the southern town of Kiryat Malachi, the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Beitar Illit and other peripheral areas.
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The 100 participants at each of the leap centers will be supervised by industry mentors, who will equip them with practical learning tools in how to create a venture of their own. “The new program is geared to change this equation, by bringing the world of technological entrepreneurship to their very doorsteps.”Īs part of the program so-called “Entrepreneur Leap Centers” will be opened at 10 community centers across the country, to provide 14–18-year-olds with tools to think, adapt, and innovate like entrepreneurs. This world is so far away from them, that it does not seem like a viable option for them,” said Hilla Haddad Chmelnik, Director-General of the Innovation, Science and Technology Ministry. “Young Israelis from the periphery do not even dare to dream about high-tech. Geographical, social and cultural barriers are often the main obstacles for the integration of Arabs, the Haredi community and women into the high-tech workforce as employment is mostly concentrated in the center of the country. There were 32,900 open positions in April 2022, out of which about 21,000 were for technological positions, according to the Israeli High-Tech Human Capital report by Start-Up Nation Policy Institute and the Israel Innovation Authority. I24 News – With the latest polls indicating that Arab Israeli turnout in the upcoming November 1 poll will be. Lapid courts Arab voters with ‘anyone but Netanyahu’ message
“The program is intended to provide a response to the present situation, in which various populations in Israel’s social and geographical periphery – including women, Arab society, and the Haredi community – are under-represented in the high-tech industry,” said the Innovation, Science and Technology Ministry.
“The extra-curricular program we are inaugurating today will engage students from diverse areas throughout Israel, with the goal of developing entrepreneurial skills and mindsets,” said Innovation, Science and Technology Minister Orit Farkash Hacohen.Īs the Israeli government is looking for ways to boost human capital in the high-tech industry, the program is tailored to diversify the industry by making it more accessible to Israeli youths for whom the high-tech world is out of reach. Israel is launching a national pilot program to expose young adults living in peripheral areas to high-tech studies as the country suffers from a shortage of skilled workers. Photo: Yaniv Morozovsky via Wikimedia Commons. Photo: The lobby of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
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