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RBS has scouting networks in Silicon Valley and Is...

June 17, 2016

RBS does not have a team in Israel but Hanley says it has "more of a curated, facilitated engagement. We use organisations such as the UK/Israeli...

Expanding The Reach Of Israel’s Tech Innovation

May 29, 2016

Ayelet Mavor, Acting Director of U.K. Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy Israel, told PYMNTS that the initiative she runs was designed to help U.K...

British Ambassador: UK embraces Sharing Economy

June 1, 2016

David Quarrey, British ambassador to Israel, who spoke at the 2nd Annual Sharing Economy Conference in Tel Aviv, said he sees substantial potential fo...

Relocation to the kingdom: Israeli startups take o...

April 30, 2016

Israel's business daily, TheMarker, dedicated a cover story to the growing number of Israeli startups growing in London. The UK Israel Tech Hub's is m...

Schuh heads to the UK Israel Tech Hub for online...

April 21, 2016

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Director of UK Israel Tech Hub Naomi Krieger Carmy says: “Retailers recognise that commerce is shifting to the we...

Israeli startups to meet Jaguar Land Rover in UK

April 21, 2016

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TheMarker

Israeli business daily reports on the Hub's TeXchange Mobility 2016 competition, taking Israeli digital solutions to the UK. 

 

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Why Dyson's Israel link is a breath of fresh air

April 7, 2016

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The Jewish Chronicle

First Industrial Nation Meets Start-Up Nation

April 7, 2016

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Fathom

"The strengthening of Britain’s high tech ties to Israel has much to do with the work of Britain’s former ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould, now back...

Survey reveals strength of UK-Israel business

March 9, 2016

"Naomi Krieger Carmy, director of the British Embassy in Israel’s UK-Israel Tech Hub, said: 'The survey's findings confirm what we have been hearing o...

Britain and Israel will work together to combat cy...

February 16, 2016

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NoCamels

UK anonunces a deepening cooperation with Israel on cyber security, during a visit by Minister for the Cabinet Office, Matt Hancock. The Minister was...

With help from the Hub, Oxford University Press co...

February 5, 2016

UK Israel EdTech Task Force launched

January 28, 2016

A new UK Israel EdTech Task Force was launched, bringing together knowledge and expertise from both countries to come up with recommendations on digit...

"It's about partnerships"

January 12, 2016

Ambassador David Quarrey tells Israeli daily Maariv why the UK is so interested in Israeli innovation, and where the UK Israel Tech Hub can help compa...

A 20 year-old shaking the fantasy storytelling wor...

January 10, 2016

Maria Nasser, a participant of our Arabtech delegation to London, tells how her innovative idea turned into a website attracting 31 million users a mo...

UK Israel Tech Hub's Arabtech delegation to London

January 5, 2016

In a 5-page article, Israel's TheMarker Magazine covers a delegation of the UK Israel Tech Hub to London, comprising of some of the most exciting entr...

UK Israel Tech Hub's Director on BBC Radio's Today...

December 31, 2015

BBC Radio 4 Today programme discusses the success of Israeli tech and what lessons it carries for the UK. The programme includes an interview with the...

UK Israel Tech Hub's delegation visits innovative...

December 24, 2015

"The apps were on full display to a visiting delegation of British medical professionals in early December, a trip that the UK Israel Tech Hub at the...

Special report: Arab-Israeli innovation in London

December 8, 2015

“Tech entrepreneurs from the Arab community in Israel have great potential but face unequal opportunities,” says Naomi Krieger Karmy, director of the ...

How one city invests in the less sexy side of smar...

December 6, 2015

"So far, Hagihon brandishes 51 leak detections and 39 repairs. Some have yet to be repaired not because of accessibility, but because those repairs ha...

Our December 2015 newsletter is out!

December 4, 2015

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Sagi Or

UK Israel Tech Hub newsletter is out, with the latest news on collaborations in Biomed, Arabtech, Future Retail, Cleantech - and much more!

 

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Teva And University College London Embark On Uniqu...

November 19, 2015

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This unique study is the result of an extensive collaborative effort supported by the UK Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy in Israel - helping T...

From the city of tea to the Mediterranean Sea: Lon...

November 12, 2015

"Perhaps the most on point in his comments about the two tech hubs was Index Ventures partner Saul Klein, a British expat in Israel who’s been the UK’...

London Mayor Boris Johnson Praises Startup Nation...

November 10, 2015

"With a dedicated team of Tech Advisors from the likes of Google, Apple, and Yahoo, along with the UK Israel Tech Hub, an initiative led by the Britis...

Ten hot Israeli startups in London

October 23, 2015

Israeli news portal Ynet lists the hottest Israeli startups making an impact on the London tech scene (text in Hebrew).

 

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Made in Israel: Meet the tech companies taking Lon...

October 22, 2015

"The UK government has been awake to this trend, with the UK-Israel Tech Hub, set up to foster commercial and technological ties, credited with creati...

Video: Booming Israeli Tech Scene in London

September 30, 2015

Israel's Channel 2 News explores the booming Israeli tech scene in London and the exciting startups operating in the UK.

Ayelet Mavor, Deputy Director...

From Silicon Wadi to the high street, the potentia...

September 16, 2015

From an oped by Avi Cohen, Digital Solutions Manager at the UK Israel Tech Hub:

 

"Israel’s future retail companies (...) pose a huge opportunity for Br...

London offers promised land for Israeli tech entre...

September 7, 2015

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Naomi Krieger Carmy, director of the UK-Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy in Israel, has noticed a definite "change in the direction of travel"...

Hub Director tells Wired UK: "What sets Israel apa...

August 12, 2015

Tel Aviv is where the money is. The startup nation became the exit nation in 2014, with Israeli tech sales and IPOs hitting $15 billion (£9.5bn) accor...

British Ambassador vows to continue work with Arab...

July 28, 2015

News websites cover a visit of the new British Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey, to NBIC tech accelerator in Nazareth, Israel's biggest Arab city....

London mayor to visit Israel in November

July 22, 2015

"London Mayor Boris Johnson will visit Israel and the Palestinian territories this November, according to the UK's new ambassador to Israel, David Qua...

British trade boost: How UK firms profit from Isra...

July 19, 2015

"(former) British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould said: ‘London offers many advantages for Israeli companies – appropriate regulation, the English...

App for diabetes patients tours the UK in Hub-orga...

July 12, 2015

An interview with Yishai Knobel, Co-Founder & CEO of HelpAround -  a contextual patient support platform that empowers patient organizations to provid...

UK Israel Tech Hub wins Foreign Office innovation...

July 10, 2015

Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has presented an award for innovation to the UK Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv.

Outgoing ambassado...

Israeli medtech mission aims for UK collaboration

June 25, 2015

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Tech City News

An Israeli tech mission has come to the UK to meet healthcare innovators as it looks to pursue a cutting-edge collaboration in Digital Health.

Some of...

"The Hub has fostered promising collaborations"

June 10, 2015

From a speech by Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills:

 

"The UK-Israel Tech Hub in the British Embassy in Tel Aviv has a...

Tel Aviv: A start-up open space in the UK Embassy

May 28, 2015

ASOS Executive Looking for Next Challenge in Tech...

May 6, 2015

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Globes (Hebrew)

Daniel Bobroff, Investment Director at ASOS.com, talks to Israeli biz daily Globes about keeping a cutting edge in e-commerce platforms.

Bobroff spoke...

Israeli start-up lets UK’s Shop Direct ‘deliver’ f...

March 26, 2015

An interview with Johnathan Wall, E-commerce Director at Shop Direct, a major UK online Retailer. The Hub works closely with Shop Direct, introducing...

Israel among the best countries to collaborate wit...

March 18, 2015

Israel is among the best countries to collaborate with, UK Chief Scientist Sir Mark Walport told The Times of Israel in an exclusive interview, thanks...

OPED: UK Chief Scientific Adviser on British-Israe...

March 11, 2015

Sir Mark Walport, the UK Government's Chief Scientific Adviser, wrote today at the start of his visit to Israel:

 

"From the prime minister down, the go...

Israeli financial technology companies pitch for B...

February 26, 2015

Israeli companies specialising in financial technology are set to pitch their products to British business leaders next week.

The 14 companies – specia...

Oped: "London should become a tech Tel Aviv-on-Tha...

January 22, 2015

Israeli Ambassador to the UK, Daniel Taub, writes in The Jewish Chronicle:

 

"Through the UK-Israel Tech Hub at the British Embassy in Tel Aviv - founde...

"A number of partnerships have happened because of...

December 25, 2014

Excerpt from an interview with UK Ambassdaor to Israel, Matthew Gould:

 

Mr Gould, who become ambassador in 2010 and will step down next year, said that...

15 Israeli fintech start-ups to compete for TeXcha...

December 23, 2014

"Open government is a major issue in both UK and I...

December 15, 2014

Minister of the Cabinet Office Francis Maude, who recently visited Israel, talks to business daily Calcalist about the transformation of government se...

Israel’s latest export success is British

December 12, 2014

"Using the connections that only government can deploy, the Hub links Israeli technology companies to British firms that can help them develop their b...

Israeli tech making inroads into British economy t...

December 11, 2014

Over the past four years, the hi-tech scene that thrives along "Israel's coast - often referred to as Silicon Wadi (a pun on California's Silicon Vall...

Israeli Ebola expert on the cutting edge of biolo...

December 9, 2014

From an article about Dr Leslie Lobel, a virologist at Ben Gurion University of the Negev:

 

"Israeli and British institutions, including Ben-Gurion Uni...

For cyber safety, UK turns to Israeli tech

November 27, 2014

- "British minister in Israel to shore up online defenses and further technology partnerships"

 

- "The UK and Israel have a close tech relationship, th...

The future of books in a digital age

Xnet, a major Israeli lifestyle and design portal, covers this week's collaboration between the Hub and Penguin Publishers, on the YourFry digital sto...

How to Feed the World

November 13, 2014

Prof Pat Heslop-Harrison from the University of Leicster, talks to Haaretz on ways to improve food production and about ensuring the world can feed it...

UK Ambassador to Israel: "Unrealized potential to...

November 12, 2014

Close and strengthening economic ties between the UK and Israel prove that attempts to boycott, sanction and divest from Israel are failing, UK Ambass...

Israel ‘looking for hi-tech partners in London’ in...

November 10, 2014

Israel is increasingly looking to work with the “young, energetic” London tech industry as opposed to Silicon Valley, a senior member of its governmen...

"The UK stands ready to invest in training and acc...

October 30, 2014

The Hub was a partner to the recent Makeathon Nazareth 2014, where over 90 developers, designers and tech entrepreneurs worked around the clock to dev...

UKTI Chief: "British-Israeli Relations Keep On Str...

September 18, 2014

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Haaretz-TheMarker (Hebrew)

Dominik Jermey, Cheif Executive of UK Trade & Investment, talks about business opportunities in the UK and about the government's models for success,...

Tech Fosters UK-Israel Relationship

September 16, 2014

An article by H.E. Matthew Gould, British Ambassador to Israel:

"One of the keys to the change has been the establishment of the UK-Israel Tech Hub, la...

Israel is a discrete bridgehead to digital product...

September 9, 2014

"Among the priorities of the UK Israel Tech Hub, which is part of the British Embassy in Tel Aviv: the Arabic digital content. 'Today most of the qual...

יזמים ישראלים - לונדון כן מחכה לנו!

"השוק הבריטי הוא שילוב מפתיע בין שמרנות לחדשנות, אך בכל הקשור לטכנולוגיה, החדשנות מנצחת, ובגדול. הכלכלה הבריטית חרטה על דגלה, בעיקר מאז המשבר הפיננסי,...

Science park forges strong Israel links

"Representatives from Sci-Tech Daresbury landed in Israel to meet several leading hi-tech companies. The three day mission was described as 'groundbre...

Anglo-Israeli scientific collaborations against th...

"...few would dispute that (Israel's) universities are dynamic, high-tech, entrepreneurial and internationally minded".

 

"Along with about 300 scientis...

UK investors seeking Arab markets look to Arab Isr...

July 1, 2014

Investors and companies in the United Kingdom looking to expand their reach into the Arab marketplace held meetings with a first-of-its-kind delegatio...

Biggest UK Farming Company Meets Israeli Expertise...

May 30, 2014

“'Some of those companies very much stood out from the rest as having great technical solutions, which if we could adopt would provide benefit to our...

Scotland: Ape Israel to build a start-up nation

May 28, 2014

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The New Scientist

On 18 September, the people of Scotland will vote on whether their country should become independent of the UK. This article is part of a special repo...

Top British delegate to Israel Innovation Conferen...

May 20, 2014

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Globes

Kieran Murphy, President and CEO of GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences division, who is visiting Israel Innovation Conference in Tel Aviv, talks to Globes...

How UK Retail is Embracing Israeli Innovation

May 9, 2014

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Retail Week

The retail industry magazine covers the latest deal the Hub was involved in and talk to the Hub's Director, Naomi Krieger Carmy.

 

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Hub Introduces Israeli Companies to UK Online Reta...

May 5, 2014

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Haaretz, Globes, Liverpool Echo, TheBusinessDesk.com NoCamels, thepayers.com

"Cimagine And yRuler To Be Incorporated In Shop Direct’s Ecommerce Plarform. The companies were introduced to Shop Direct by the UK Israel Tech Hub at...

AgroParisTech en voyage d’étude sur les start-ups...

May 5, 2014

Chief Scientific Advisor hopes for increased UK Is...

April 1, 2014

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Water Active

Chief Scientific Advisor to HM Government, Sir Mark Walport, has warned that the UK’s ageing water infrastructure will come under growing pressure ove...

Nazareth high-tech draws international investors

March 23, 2014

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The Jerusalem Post

Many of the start-ups are part of a new trend of Arab Israeli companies creating Arabic-language content for consumption in the broader Middle East. “...

‘Happy days’ for Israeli trade as delegation comes...

March 21, 2014

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The Jewish Chronicle Online

A 30-strong group of Israeli companies specialising in retail and water technology were welcomed to Downing Street last week, in a ground-breaking bid...

UK Tech Envoy to Israel talks with WSJ tech Europe...

November 7, 2013

"The U.K. government is lining itself up to reap what benefits it can. Its embassy in Israel hosts the U.K.-Israel tech hub, a program to foster close...

Tech City Seeks Israeli Startups to List in London

November 7, 2013

Joanna Shields, chief executive officer of the Tech City Investment Organisation, a technology hub in London, talks about partnerships with Israeli st...

Top UK biomed executives arrive in Israel

October 5, 2013

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YNET News

Delegation of British pharmaceutical companies, organizations participating in international biomed conference in Tel Aviv. "Coupling of Israeli innov...

Retail Market Stagnant, E-Commerce Growing

May 19, 2013

Watch: Bloomberg TV reporting on our latest project in the Digital sector, a Retail Delegation to Israel led by Rohan Silva featuring a delegate from...

London Woos Israeli Entrepreneurs

August 31, 2013

London is playing host to a very different kind of diplomatic mission. Some 15 Israeli startups are being introduced to London’s tech community in the...

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