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Per capita, Israel has more scientists and engineers than any other country. But it is not enough for the demands created by the burgeoning tech sector.
Over 60% of Israeli tech startups are reporting a difficulty in recruiting employees for their R&D departments, the 2020 High-Tech Human Capital Report from the Israel Innovation Authority and Start-Up Nation Central has revealed.
According to the report, Israel s tech industry currently numbers 334,000 employees, who make up 9.8% of all employees in the country, up from 321,000 tech sector employees in 2019. The report notes that there are currently 13,000 tech job openings in Israel, a drop of 30% compared to 2019. However, Sagi Dagan, Vice President, Growth Division at the Israel Innovation Authority told Calcalist that we estimate that there is a chronic shortage in the market and the drop that we are seeing over the past year is not good.
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Startup Pliops is also aiming to hire 200 additional employees while Payoneer, who is headed for a SPAC merger, is recruiting 300 employees in addition to the 1,800 it already employs, 1,100 of whom work in Israel. Microsoft’s R&D center in Israel has also grown by 25 percent over the past year and currently numbers 2,100 people, with 120 openings still awaiting to be filled.
But while 2020 was generally an excellent year for Israeli tech and many employees also benefited from salary increases, according to the report, the COVID-19 pandemic halted the positive trends of recent years that had led to the increased integration of women, Arabs and the ultra-Orthodox community into the tech sector. There was an alarming decline in the number of women who founded technology companies in Israel in 2020; there was stagnation in the ratio of ultra-Ort