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In 2022 tech exports have made up 50% of Israel’s exports. Yet, since the start of 2023 the sector has entered into a spiraling crisis. Initial investments in Israeli startups dropped by 90% in Q1 of 2023, as compared to the same period in 2022 and investments in Israeli high-tech companies decreased by 68% in the first six months. By July, leading Israeli economist Eugene Kandel said, “Israeli high-tech may not exist in a decade, even without political instability.”
Today, Israel’s tech sector is in even worse conditions but some international corporations are ready to jump to rescue, defying risk analyses and obligations to their shareholders and, above everything else, the moral and legal duty not to aid and abet genocide and crimes against humanity, such as apartheid.
How deep is the crisis of the Israeli tech sector?
Who is ready to give the hi-tech support to keep Israel’s genocide and apartheid going?
Date/Time: March 21 2024, 9am PST time - noon time EST
Speaker:
Shir Hever, political economist and coordinator for military embargo campaigns with the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
