Israel Tech Challenge

Israel Tech Challenge is a non-profit organization that aims to bring international highly technical talent to Israel. It is backed by the Israeli National Cyber Bureau, the Jewish Agency,[1] the Paul E. Singer Foundation,[2] private donors, and corporate partners. It was founded in 2013 by Raphael Ouzan and Oren Toledano.[3]

Operations

As of 2018, Israel Tech Challenge provides 2-month internships, 5-month bootcamp and 10-month fellowships that have trained more than 400 new engineers from more than 20 countries. It has brought an estimated gain of $34.1M to the Israeli economy.[4][5] In 2017, six month internships in the program were offered to 15 students form Cyprus and 15 from Greece as part of an effort to strengthen ties between the world Greek and Jewish communities.[1]

Oren Toledano is executive director.[6][3]

Brief internship experiences are offered as part of the Birthright Israel program.[6][7] Haaretz asserts that the program, which it calls "Birthright for Geeks", seeks to expose young diaspora Jews who work in or study cutting edge tech to the tech industry in Israel.[3]

In June 2018, Israel Tech Challenge was chosen by the Israel Innovation Authority as one of seven providers to run bootcamps and train engineers in Israel.[8]

gollark: (there are probably, at most, something like a thousand offices getting that)
gollark: This furniture budget thing probably doesn't add up to a significant amount of the total spend, so it's a bad comparison.
gollark: Apparently American healthcare spending is something like 17% of GDP for some insane reason. So it would be a big fraction of the government budget, if they ran it as efficiently as it currently operated.
gollark: Possibly. Paying people if they want to move out seems more reasonable than doing stupid things to local property markets, or whatever, or adjusting taxes so those already there can afford it.
gollark: That doesn't mean the cost can't/shouldn't be *reduced*.

References
  1. Keinon, Herb (15 June 2017). "PM in Thessaloniki for trilateral summit with Greece and Cyprus". Jeruslaem Post. ProQuest 1910723844.
  2. "Israel tech challenge". www.israeltechallenge.com.
  3. Orpaz, Inbal (17 August 2014). "Relocation to Startup Nation: Why Diaspora Tekkies Are Flocking to Israel". Haaretz. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  4. ""הבנקאות במשבר, כל בנק מקים לעצמו היום חברת פינטק": רפאל אוזן על עולם הולך ומשתנה". פורבס ישראל (in Hebrew).
  5. "Sionisme 2.0" – via Haaretz.
  6. Zelaya, Ian (16 January 2014). "Taglit-Birthright offers 12-day Tech Challenge". Washington Jewish Week. ProQuest 1492727606.
  7. Elis, Niv (24 July 2014). "Despite sirens, visiting techies keep coding. 'I'm more worried about getting lost in TA than rockets,' hacking competitor says". Jerusalem Post. ProQuest 1551320897.
  8. Ravet, Hagar (4 June 2018). "Israel Picks Seven Companies to Run State-Funded Coding Bootcamps". Calcalist. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
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