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The National Program for Artificial Intelligence is a multi-year program, budgeted at about NIS 1 billion so far. It relies on a central directorate and on theimplementation capabilities of its member organizations. Its operations include coordinating the work of all relevant governmental entities. The Program is intended tomaintain Israel's global leadership on AI including Research, Infrastructure, Talent, Data, Regulatory Environment, and AI Adoption

The Council for Higher Education has established a program to support data science research within Israeli universities, including new research centers, an inter-university coordination mechanism, a dedicated fund within the Israel Science Foundation, and scholarship programs.

Israel has opened a public call to support AI projects in government. The goal is to improve digital services, increase efficiency, and enhance decision-making. Projects are chosen based on feasibility, impact, planning, and ethical risk management, helping government provide better services to citizens.

In 2021 the Israeli National Forum for R&D Infrastructure (TELEM in Hebrew) recommended on investing in NLP capabilities in Hebrew and Arabic. Those recommendations were later adopted by the government as part of resolution 212, allocating a total of 180M NIS over a period of 3 years for the creation of corpora, model and tools that are to be made widely accessible to the IL R&D eco-system.

Further to Government Resolutions No. 212 of August 1, 2021 (hereinafter - Resolution212), No. 2118 of October 22, 2014, No. 4398 of December 23, 2018 and No. 218 ofAugust 1, 2021 and in light of the importance of technological innovation as the growthengine of the Israeli high-tech sector, and in order to support the continued prosperityof the Israeli innovation industry and its leadership in the global innovationcompetition

The resolution lists a series of actions and corresponding funding, aiming to promote innovation, continued growth of the high-tech sector and Israeli technological leadership

Project Nimbus is Israel's national cloud initiative to provide secure and efficient cloud services for government agencies. Major providers like Google and AWS set up local data centers to support this effort. The project helps improve government technology infrastructure, ensuring faster and safer digital services for citizens.

A legal opinion addressing the question of "whether ML enterprises can make unauthorized use of copyrighted materials to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems"

The National Initiative for Secured Intelligent Systems: A National Strategy for Israel in the Field of AI (Report to the Prime Minister)

Principles for good machine learning practices in development of healthcare technologies, addressing the balance between ethical guidelines and technological advancement

In December 2023, Israel introduced its first policy on AI regulation and ethics. The policy aims to ensure AI is used responsibly, protecting people from risks like bias and privacy issues. Developed by several ministries and experts, it supports innovation while promoting fairness, safety, and transparency for all sectors using AI.

A cross-governmental team was set up to devise recommendations for a policy plan to promote AI R&I activities in Israel.

In 2021, Israel recommended building local computer systems to support artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC). The government allocated funds to create infrastructure for AI model training, support startups developing AI hardware and software, and provide computing power for scientific research. This initiative helps researchers, startups, and industries improve AI capabilities and innovation.