Livestream: Israel’s Flagging Tech Economy

Livestream: Israel’s Flagging Tech Economy Today, July 18th @ 7:00 pm EST on MintPress YouTube Tonight on State of Play, Greg stoker is joined by Paul biggar CEO of tech for Palestine to discuss Israel’s flagging Tech economy. The elite military intelligence unit 8200 serves as a pipeline to entrepreneurship in the Israeli tech sector and is generally seen as a great benefit to the country’s tech economy, which comprises 20% of its annual GDP. Google is poised to buy the cloud-based cyber security firm, Wiz, which was founded by four former members of unit 8200. The Israeli media has just spent two entire news cycles lauding this potential deal as an indicator of the strength and resilience of the nation’s economy. Source: MintPress News