Science and technology in Israel

Science and technology in Israel is one of the country's most developed sectors. Israel is a world leader in fundamental scientific research as the percentage of Israelis engaged in scientific and technological inquiry, and the amount spent on research and development relative to its gross domestic product is one of the highest in the world. Israel ranks fifth among the most innovative countries in the Bloomberg Innovation Index. Israel ranks thirteenth in the world in scientific activity as measured by the number of scientific publications per million citizens. It also has one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed. In 2009, Israel's percentage of the total number of scientific articles published worldwide was almost 10 times higher than its percentage of the world's population. The high technology industry has been successful due to Israel's disproportionately high number of engineers and scientists. Israel has the highest number of scientists and technicians per capita in the world with 140 scientists and technicians per 10,000 employees. In comparison, the same is 85 per 10,000 in the United States and 83 per 10,000 in Japan.

Israeli scientists and engineers have contributed to the advancement of the natural sciences, agricultural sciences, electronics, computer sciences, life sciences, robotics, and various fields of engineering. Israel is home to major players in the high tech industry and has one of the world's most technologically literate populations. In 1998, Tel Aviv was named by Newsweek as one of the ten most technologically influential cities in the world. Since 2000, Israel has been a member of EUREKA, the pan-European research and development funding and coordination organization, and held the rotating chairmanship of the organization for 2010–2011. In 2010, the journalist David Kaufman, wrote that the high tech area of Yokneam, Israel has the "world's largest concentration of aesthetics-technology companies".Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt complimented the country during a visit there, saying that “Israel has the most important high-tech center in the world after the US.”

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