'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
A concerted effort of millions of attempts to cripple Israeli websites during the Gaza conflict has failed, Israel's finance minister said Monday, claiming that the only site that was successfully hacked was back up within minutes.
With Israel having quietly prospered as a global haven of innovation, key players in the Jewish state are asking whether the Asian giants might steal their high-tech thunder.
It's well known that the emergence of India and China is casting a shadow on the developed economies of Europe and North America. Less famous is the challenge facing Israel: With the Jewish state having quietly prospered as a global haven of innovation, key players here are asking whether the Asian giants might steal their high-tech thunder.
Erel Margalit, chairman of Jerusalem Venture Partners, a leading Israeli venture capital firm, has invested significantly in Israel's cybersecurity system but said more must be done.
"The start-up nation is also a cybernation, it needs to be defended, and Israel is known to be quite advanced in this field," he said.
