Ariela Karmel

Len Rosen, CEO of Evercore's Israeli business, spoke to CTech at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference in New York about capital raising for Israeli companies.

Osnat Naftali Katz, Business Development Manager at Beilinson Innovation, spoke to CTech at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference in New York about the significance of innovation in healthcare especially during wartime.

Eyal Redler, Managing Partner at The Garage, spoke to CTech at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference in New York about how the war will lead to new entrepreneurs and ventures.

Michael Shaulov, Co-Founder and CEO of Fireblocks, spoke to CTech at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference in New York about how financial institutions are adopting blockchain.

A new report published by Compete, in partnership with Power in Diversity, Viola Group and Meitar Law Offices, shows that Israel’s tech sector is still rife with gender disparity particularly in executive roles and seed stage companies with a persistent wage gap

Dr. Yael Maizels, formerly the Senior Scientist at the Institute for Personalized and Translational Medicine at Ariel University, has conducted a new study which shows that 76% of women suffer from non-lethal side effects from hormonal birth controls. She spoke to CTech about the need for investment in personalized and innovative solutions for women

Ora Peled Nakash, founder, entrepreneur, and a retired naval officer and the first woman to graduate from the unified program at the Israeli Naval Academy, spoke to CTech about the need for the integration of women in military submarine units, and how October 7th has proven beyond a doubt the mettle and ability of female soldiers

Hervana Bio Founder and CEO Rachel Teitelbaum spoke to CTech about their innovative new non-hormonal contraceptive with no side effects and with added protection against STIs, and about why funding is needed to access the $25 billion contraceptive market

CTech spoke with members of Reboot Startup Nation, an online community that assists new immigrants mainly from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus find jobs in Israel’s tech sector in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and immigration from the region. Co-founder Daniil Chernov discussed how his own immigration impacted his desire to build this 14,000-strong community and navigating Israel’s current war with Hamas.

In a tour of Kibbutz Nir Oz, the site of one of the worst massacres on October 7th, CTech's Ariela Karmel was reminded of Israeli National Poet Hayim Nahman Bialik's “In The City of Slaughter” about the 1903 Kishinev pogrom. Today, on Yom Hashoah, in Nir Oz, in the Jewish state, the same horrors are still best articulated by Bialik, by a poet eulogizing a pogrom.