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8/6/2025, 9:05:47 PM
Even Unit 8200 graduates are not immune: The reason the high-tech dream is slipping away
The number of employees in Israeli high-tech has been stagnant for almost three years, and now workers in the industry are facing a new threat: replacement by artificial intelligence. • A study by the RISE Institute and IVC examined which employees were particularly affected by the employment crisis and came back with dramatic insights. • Dr. Assaf Fatir, one of the study's authors, estimates: This is how artificial intelligence is changing the conditions for employment in high-tech - and even 8200 graduates are not immune.
A week after a huge sale, The second largest in Israeli high-tech , and reports of A huge value for another startup , it's a bit strange to talk about stagnation in high-tech. But the truth is that desire the successes, local high-tech is in a crisis, one that began long before the October 7 war.
The data speaks for itself: Since the end of 2022, the number of high-tech jobs has been at an almost complete standard, after a decade of rapid growth that reached an unprecated peak in 2021-2022. The Israeli High-Tech Employment Status Report 2023-2024 by the RISE Institute and IVC shows that this stagnation has not affected everyone equally. At the same time, the average real wage in high-tech has remained largely unchanged, indicating that this is a hiring freeze and not a replacement of workers with automated technologies.
Beneath the surface of the general stagnation, a more complex story of "who's in, who's out" is revealed. "High-tech is being reduced to its core," explains Dr. Assaf Fatir, chief economist at the RISE Institute. "We see companies downsizing in areas surrounding R&D - marketing, sales, human resources. R&D is still growing, not as much as in the good times, but we're seeing less downsizing there."
The number of employees in Israeli high-tech has been stagnant for almost three years, and now workers in the industry are facing a new threat: replacement by artificial intelligence. • A study by the RISE Institute and IVC examined which employees were particularly affected by the employment crisis and came back with dramatic insights. • Dr. Assaf Fatir, one of the study's authors, estimates: This is how artificial intelligence is changing the conditions for employment in high-tech - and even 8200 graduates are not immune.
A week after a huge sale, The second largest in Israeli high-tech , and reports of A huge value for another startup , it's a bit strange to talk about stagnation in high-tech. But the truth is that desire the successes, local high-tech is in a crisis, one that began long before the October 7 war.
The data speaks for itself: Since the end of 2022, the number of high-tech jobs has been at an almost complete standard, after a decade of rapid growth that reached an unprecated peak in 2021-2022. The Israeli High-Tech Employment Status Report 2023-2024 by the RISE Institute and IVC shows that this stagnation has not affected everyone equally. At the same time, the average real wage in high-tech has remained largely unchanged, indicating that this is a hiring freeze and not a replacement of workers with automated technologies.
Beneath the surface of the general stagnation, a more complex story of "who's in, who's out" is revealed. "High-tech is being reduced to its core," explains Dr. Assaf Fatir, chief economist at the RISE Institute. "We see companies downsizing in areas surrounding R&D - marketing, sales, human resources. R&D is still growing, not as much as in the good times, but we're seeing less downsizing there."
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