Silicon wadi

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Silicon Wadi ( Hebrew סיליקוק ואדי, lit .: "Silicon Valley") is an area with a high concentration of high-tech companies in the coastal plain of Israel around Tel Aviv (industrial areas of Ewer ha-Jarkon and Kirjat Atidim) and other smaller clusters around the cities of Raʿanana , Petach Tikwa (industrial areas of Kiryat Arieh and Kiryat Matalon ), Herzliya (Herzliya Pituach), Netanya and academic city of Rechovot , Rishon LeZion and Haifa , Yavne and Caesarea . Newer high-tech facilities have been established in Jerusalem (industrial zones of the mountains Hozvim and Malha) and in cities such as Jokne'am Illit , Nes Ziona (industrial area of ​​Kirjat Weizmann) and in Airport City , near Tel Aviv airport , also in Beersheba and Kirjat Gat .

The term derives from the metonymic designation of the high-tech center Silicon Valley ( German  silicon - valley ) in the State of California from. “Wadi” is the Arabic word for “valley” ( Arabic وادي), which is also used in colloquial Hebrew (ואדי).

In 1996, Mirabilis , an Israeli company, developed the ICQ - instant messaging program , which revolutionized communication over the Internet. In 1998, it was sold to AOL for $ 407 million . In 2000, the service had more than 100 million users and was the market leader in instant messaging. The success of Mirabilis sparked the dot-com boom in Israel. Thousands of start-ups were founded between 1998 and 2001 alone. After the dot-com bubble , however, numerous development and research centers for international corporations such as IBM , Intel , Yahoo and Google emerged in Silicon Wadi . There are also other large high-tech companies such as Amdocs , Comverse , Check Point , Motorola , Microsoft , Hewlett-Packard , Deutsche Telekom , Philips , Cisco Systems , Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, BMC Software and CA Technologies . Israeli companies include: Zoran Corporation, Ceva Logistics , Aladdin Knowledge Systems , NICE Ltd. , Horizon Semiconductors , RAD Data Communications , Radware , Tadiran , Radvision , Babylon Ltd., Elbit Systems , Israel Aerospace Industries , or Solel . As of 2017, there were 300 development and research centers in Silicon Wadi. Around 20 new centers are added every year.

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  1. ↑ Catherine de Fontenay, Israel's Silicon Wadi: The forces behind cluster formation , March 12, 2010, University of Melbourne, (English). Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  2. ^ R&D Centers , Invest in Israel, Ministry of Economy and Industry. As of January 2018. Accessed July 30, 2019.
  3. ↑ Innovation in Israel , p. 33. Retrieved July 30, 2019.