Gav Yam Negev Advanced Technologies Park

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Coordinates: 31 ° 15 ′ 49.7 "  N , 34 ° 48 ′ 42.5"  E

The first buildings in Gav Yam Negev Advanced Technology Park in 2014

The Gav Yam Negev Advanced Technology Park ( Hebrew פארק גב-ים נגב לטכנולוגיות מתקדמות; Gav-Yam Negev Park for advanced technologies) is a 2013 established technology park in Be'er Sheva ( Hebrew בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, Israel ), located in the middle of the Negev desert. It is directly adjacent to the university campus and the Ben Gurion University of the Negev . It currently consists of three large office complexes with around 2500 employees on 50,000 m², who work for 70 different high-tech companies, including PayPal , Dell EMC , IBM , Oracle , WIX , Mellanox , Incubit , Allscripts , AudioCodes and Deutsche Telekom belong. The expansion should lead to a total usable area of ​​200,000 m² with 10,000 workplaces.

The future technology campus of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is to be built in the immediate vicinity, where the military plans to merge its various cyber and technology units. They are regarded as a training center for start-ups. In addition to the Elite Unit 8200 , whose former employees founded leading Israeli high-tech companies, including Check Point and ICQ , the Israeli army has two other units for cyber soldiers: the “C4I Directorate” focuses on defense and Aman ( Hebrew אמ״ן, Department of Military Reconnaissance) is involved in the research of offensive strategies. Be'er Scheva has become the world's largest center for cybersecurity (information security). CyberSpark is the name of the Israeli Cyber ​​Innovation Arena in Beersheba . It is a joint venture of the Israeli National Cyber ​​Bureau at the Prime Minister's Office, Beer Sheva Municipality, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and cybersecurity industry leaders. The aim is intensive cooperation between the university, industry, the military and start-up companies .

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  1. cyberspark . Retrieved July 9, 2019.
  2. High-tech flourishes in the Negev desert , Audiator online, March 15, 2018. Accessed July 6, 2019.
  3. Be'er Sheva- Israeli's Cyber ​​Capital , gov.il (English). Retrieved July 6, 2019.