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The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) announced on Sunday a raise of up to NIS 1 million in its Start Up Fund, with the aim of providing deep tech startups in the early stages of development companies a capital runway to reach commercial viability.

A newsroom colleague sent me a Facebook page this week. It is called Bulletin Network, it has about 53,000 followers, and it looks like a legitimate news site.

For a group of Australian venture capitalists, Israel’s next major investment opportunity may lie beyond its traditional strengths in cyber and defense. They are betting that Israeli climate, energy transition and agritech companies could become the next big thing for Australian investors and potentially for the continent itself.

Israel’s ambition to become a trillion-dollar economy is usually framed as a question of quantity: more venture capital, more innovation, more unicorns, more infrastructure, and more regional integration. Those goals matter, but they miss the deeper constraint.

Israel’s biggest cryptocurrency broker, called “Bits of Gold,” has reported that personal data belonging to 200,000 of its customers was stolen in a coordinated hack of its platform.

For much of the past two decades, Israel’s technology sector was defined by startups built to move quickly and scale globally, helping turn a country roughly the size of New Jersey into the “Startup Nation.” Now, more companies are emerging from laboratories, research institutes, and engineering departments, built around scientific breakthroughs that can take years…