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This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Maayan Shahar, managing director of UST Spark - the software company's open innovation program. Maayan's role is focused on identifying Israeli startups with potential and integrating them into UST's portfolio, and in this episode, she shares the expertise she has gained in this role as well as nearly 20 years in the tech industry. Eve and Maayan discuss tips and tricks for aspiring entrepreneurs and start-ups,...
This week's host Abigail Rubinstein, interviews Oded Rozenberg, co-founder and CEO of Apollo Power, in The Jerusalem Post Studio to discuss Apollo's novel, innovative, lightweight, and flexible solar panels. Rosenberg describes how the new lightweight design could allow someone to charge their phone from a portable solar charger or even construct much larger solar panels than is possible today. He also describes that these solar panels can have very important applications for "off the grid" busi...
This week, host Abigail Rubinstein, interviews Shaul Shulman, the founder and CEO of SafeFields Technologies, a startup that focuses on the exposure to electromagnetic radiation (EMF) within cars. Shaul will discuss the effects of the radiation and potential health problems for drivers with excessive exposure. Shaul also discusses the short history of SafeFields and its rapid rise, the science behind in-cabin radiation, and implementation in order to protect drivers. As SafeFields has opened to ...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Noam Solomon - CEO and co-founder at Immunai. Immunai is a biotechnology company working to comprehensively map and decode the immune system with single-cell biology and AI to make new therapeutic discoveries, accelerate drug development, and improve patient outcomes. Noam will talk about how Immunai uses AI and machine learning to make medical advancements, and explain what machine learning is in laymans terms...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Irad Renan, Co-Founder & CEO of Weme - a non-profit platform for volunteers. Irad and his co-founder created Weme in the wake of the October 7 attack on Israel and the Israel-Hamas war, after seeing how much help was needed, and how much Israelis wanted to give to and support each other. Weme is helping to overcome frictions in the volunteering market by helping connect those in need to those who can offer ...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Yaky Yanay, the CEO and President of Biotechnology Research company Pluri. Yaky is also the former Co-Chairman and a current Board Member of the Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI) - the largest umbrella organization representing the life science and hi-tech industries in Israel. Pluri is using cell-based technology to do everything from curing radiation sickness to creating large amounts of meat and c...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Gili Fleekop and Noam Biton, the co-founders of Pink Chili - a boutique, gen-Z social media agency. Noam and Gili will explain what makes their approach different and why authenticity and "showing rather than telling" are so critical in social media marketing these days. They will share about the challenges of working in the world of social media and being a proudly Israeli company in an age where anti-Israel s...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies's Fareed Mahameed, a climate resilience & environmental public health expert. Fareed will explain what climate resilience is and why it is necessary in a world so impacted by climate change that extreme is the new normal. Fareed also manages the off-grid hub in Alfura village, a bedouin community in the Negev. The hub supplies the local highschool with electrici...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Adina Kraus - Founding Partner and CEO at InnoSource Ventures, an independent innovation division of the Swiss family office Toledo Capital. Adina will talk about the impacts of October 7 and the Israel-Hamas war on the Israeli startup ecosystem. She will highlight success stories of companies who managed to excel in spite of the war's challenges and tell us what characteristics these companies showed. She also...
This week, The Jerusalem Post’s Yuval Levy and Abigail Rubinstein interview AION Labs CTO Dr. Yair Benita. Yuval, Abigail, and Yair will talk about recent advancements in the AI pharmaceutical industry, as well as the work AION Labs is doing to propel technological innovation in the field of drug development. Yair will discuss his venture studio’s collaboration with major corporations such as Pfizer, Merck, Teva, AstraZeneca, and Amazon to support independent Israeli startups as they pursue solu...
This episode features Gideon Keyson, co-founder and CPO of Riverside, as he recounts his path from a lone soldier in the Israeli Navy to leading a cutting-edge tech company. He details how Riverside evolved from a simple debating platform into a comprehensive remote recording studio, leveraging AI for innovative editing solutions. Gideon also discusses the complex ethical considerations of AI, the profound impact of the Israel-Hamas war on his company and staff, and Riverside's impactful project with Israel Police to collect testimonies from Nova festival survivors.
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Intel's VP Startup Ecosystem Tzahi (Zach) Weisfeld, who also heads startup accelerator Ignite, and Intel Capital Managing Director Roi Bar-Kat. Roi will talk about Intel's investment arm, Intel Capital, getting into why a corporation even wants an investment arm and what Intel Capital's focus is. Tzachi will discuss the changes Intel Ignite is going through as it relaunches outside of Intel. He will also explai...
This week, guest hosts Ellie Esquenazi, Corey Tusak, and Raquel Frohlich, interns at The Jerusalem Post, interview Israeli meat cultivation companies. Interviewed in the podcast was Aleph Farms CTO and co-founder Dr. Neta Lavon, who is a biotechnology specialist, also with a degree in Food Sciences. Lavon discusses the challenges and processes of meat cultivation, delving into the science behind the lab-grown meat and the camaraderie between competitors in the Israeli industry. Also interviewed ...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews co-founders Shai Goel and Tomer Biton, who together are working to help "miluimnikim" (reservists) transition from their reserve duty to the hi-tech ecosystem with their project - MiluimTech. Shai, the CEO, and Tomer, the COO, are working to help reservists who have never been in the tech sector or reservists who were working at tech companies but faced challenges or were fired after extended periods of reserve...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews revenue AI company Gong's Senior People Business Partner Liraz Wishkovsky, and senior DevOps engineer Noy Meir. Liraz and Noy focus on Gong's Glow program - designed to advance women at Gong from senior tech positions to managerial positions. Liraz, who led the program, explains how the company realized a need for one, and Noy, who participated, explains how the program helped her. The two discuss challenges fo...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Keren Shurkin, Director of the UK-Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy in Israel and Ronit Applebaum, the hub's Healthcare Innovation Lead. Keren and Ronit will talk about economic and tech diplomacy, what they are and how they can connect nations. They will explain how economic ties are used to bolster diplomatic ones, and how the UK-Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy in Israel is part of this. Keren and...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Oracle's Senior Vice President, Partner and Operations Strategy, Leah Yomtovian. Leah shares what drew her to tech, and how she ended up at Oracle. She will also talk about Oracle's transition from a product-oriented to a service-oriented company, and what the company's part is in the artificial intelligence boom. Leah and Eve will talk about how large companies view and advance innovation and how they work and...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews generative AI coding platform Qodo 's CEO and co-founder Itamar Friedman and Venture Capital firm TLV Partners, Partner Brian Sack. Eve, Brian, and Itamar will discuss what makes a good investor-founder relationship and what the most important parts of Brian and Itamar's relationship are. They will share red and green flags for investors and founders to look out for when exploring work together. Itamar will exp...
On this week’s episode of Inside Israeli Innovation, this week's hosts Corey Tusak and Ellie Esquenazi take a deep-dive into Aardvark Israel’s Tech Track .This gap-year program specializes in preparing students for the Israeli technology industry. During their 9 month-long stay in Israel, students on the Tech Track spend one semester taking computer science courses, where they learn to code in various programming languages. During their second and final semester, participants work as interns at ...
Guest hosts Ellie Esquenazi and Corey Tusak, discuss some of the innovative stories breaking this week with a key theme of Israeli resilience and effects of the Israel-Hamas war. Among other exciting articles, Corey and Ellie share the story of Noga Sela Shalev, founder of Fresh Start - a food technology incubator, who was evacuated from her home in Kiryat Shmona and discuss how the war has affected her business and other startups, according to Calcalist. Corey and Ellie also discuss the influx ...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Ravid Granov, the founder of Mami, a podcast aiming to support families handling the mental illness of their loved ones. Ravid will explain where the idea for the podcast came from, and why she and her team are seeking to support the families of those dealing with mental health issues. She will talk about cycles of shame and stigma that surround mental health, how they created challenges for Mami's team, and ho...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Yehuda Niv, Founder & CEO of Spines - an online book publishing platform. Spines creates another option for authors beyond traditional, untraditional, and self publishing options, and it uses AI to drastically shorten the timeline for publishing a book or audiobook. Yehuda will share how he came up with the idea for Spines, and how he took it from an idea to a business. He will share about the importance of...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Tal Lev-Ami, co-founder and CTO of Cloudinary - a technology company that provides cloud-based image and video management services. Tal will tell us about how Cloudinary is using generative AI to help companies use images in a better way. He will also touch on the potential risk of using gen AI with images and how these risks can be minimized. He will tell us about how the company is defining the standards of h...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Didi Gurfinkel, Co-Founder & CEO of Datarails - an AI-powered financial planning and analysis platform. Datarails is using AI to change how Microsoft Excel users do financial planning and analysis. Didi will tell us about why the Datarails founders decided to work to fix a problem arising from the use of a product rather than trying to replace it. He will also explain the importance of product-market fit an...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Ofer Shalev, CEO and co-founder of a startup that is using nanotechnology to prolong the life of stage-four metastatic cancer patients without adverse effects to their health. Ofer will explain how the fact that cancer cells are more sensitive to heat than healthy cells enables New Phase to use electromagnetic hyperthermia technology to target tumors. He will also share the story of how he and co-founder Dr. Ra...
This week, in a special Tu B'Av episode, host Eve Young - economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Post's Molly Myers discuss AI innovation in dating apps. Tu B'Av is a Jewish holiday associated with love. Today, especially in Israel, it is often seen as a Jewish version of Valentine's Day. Dating apps use machine learning algorithms and tools to help users find love. This episode explores various apps, including two Israeli platforms that incorporate not only AI and tech...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Amitai Carney, co-founder of an AI project that helps Israelis and pro-Israel activists do better hasbara (public diplomacy) on social media. The tool uses AI to help Israelis overcome language barriers and cultural gaps by optimizing their comments or posts. It customizes suggestions based on the audience, the social media platform, and the region. Amitai also discusses the importance of continued dialogue and...
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 25. This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Omri Shalev, co-founder and CTO of Reeco - an AI-based hospitality procurement company. Omri explains how he, and co-founder and CEO Henrik Shimony, learned about the disadvantages of the low-tech procurement systems normally used by hotels, and how they took their experience and turned it into a solution for these problems. Omri shares...
This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Mickey Haslavsky, CEO and founder of Enso, a company making all kinds of services accessible to small businesses using AI bots. Mickey will explain what AI agents are, and what makes them different from the chatbots we are more familiar with.He will also explain what Enso does, and how it is using AI to help companies with everything from social media management to hiring. Eve and Mickey discuss what the abilit...
The Inside Israeli Innovation Podcast with Eve Young: Season 2, Episode 23. This week, host Eve Young, economics correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, interviews Dr. Karny Ilan, CEO and co-founder of femtech startup Feminai. As a team of female co-founders, the Feminai team ran into interesting reactions from potential investors, including meeting investors who told them that they needed a man on their team, Ilan explained on the podcast. Karny and her co-founders, CTO Shani Klein Antman and CPO...
