Atlas report
AI researchers in Israel
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is the largest, with 862 indexed researchers, barely ahead of Tel Aviv University at 790. No single place dominates here.
The short answer
By number of indexed researchers, Israel ranks 21st of 132 countries, with 4 586 profiles.
Israel counts 468 indexed AI researchers per million inhabitants, 5.3 times the world rate of 89.
The subject where Israel weighs most against the rest of the world is Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs: 1.2% of its subject assignments work on it, 4.2 times the world share of 0.3%.
What stands out
Machine Learning in Healthcare is the subject newcomers in Israel pick up fastest: 31 started on it between 2023 and 2025, and its share of new entrants is 2.4 times its share in the previous window.
Israel holds 0.6% of the researchers with a known country and 0.1% of the world's population, 5.3 times its demographic weight.
13% of the AI researchers indexed in Israel sit in a company rather than a university, 1.5 times the world share of 8.9%.
Subjects
The single most common subject is Topic Modeling, on which 7.4% of Israel's subject assignments fall.
Subject reports: Natural Language Processing Techniques, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).
| Subject | Researchers | Share here | Share worldwide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Topic Modeling | 829 | 7.4% | 7.9% |
| Natural Language Processing Techniques | 597 | 5.3% | 4.3% |
| Multimodal Machine Learning Applications | 379 | 3.4% | 3.9% |
| Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis | 333 | 3.0% | 2.6% |
| Advanced Neural Network Applications | 319 | 2.8% | 4.4% |
| Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning | 285 | 2.5% | 1.9% |
| Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) | 235 | 2.1% | 1.5% |
| Machine Learning and Algorithms | 145 | 1.3% | 0.4% |
Newcomers by year
Israel gained 837 new researchers between 2023 and 2025, 1.0 times the 861 of the three years before; the world ratio is 1.1.
Measured on 2025 alone, entry into Israel ran at 0.7 times its three-year average, where the world ran at 0.8.
| First publication | New in Israel | Share of the world's newcomers |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 173 | 0.9% |
| 2020 | 202 | 1.0% |
| 2021 | 298 | 1.2% |
| 2022 | 361 | 1.1% |
| 2023 | 278 | 0.9% |
| 2024 | 333 | 1.1% |
| 2025 | 226 | 0.9% |
Institutions
49% of the country's researchers sit in three institutions, led by Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology is the largest, with 862 indexed researchers, barely ahead of Tel Aviv University at 790. No single place dominates here.
| Institution | Researchers | Share of the country |
|---|---|---|
| Technion – Israel Institute of Technology | 862 | 19% |
| Tel Aviv University | 790 | 17% |
| Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | 617 | 13% |
Compared with its peers
The two countries closest in size are Sweden and Russia. Same order of magnitude, different profile. The gap that stands out is the researchers per million inhabitants: 468 here against 245 for those two. Reports: AI researchers in Russia.
| Israel | Sweden | Russia | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Researchers | 4 586 | 4 819 | 5 078 |
| Per million inhabitants | 468 | 455 | 35 |
| In a company | 13% | 21% | 2.8% |
| Early career | 57% | 46% | 58% |
| Newcomers, recent against previous window | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.9 |
Common questions
- How many AI researchers are there in Israel?
- 4 586, as of October 2026, counting every indexed researcher with an institution in Israel. That is 0.6% of the profiles with a known country.
- Where do you find AI researchers in Israel?
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 862, Tel Aviv University, 790, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 617. Together they hold 49% of the country's indexed researchers.
- What is Israel strongest in?
- Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs, at 4.2 times the world share.
- Is the pool of AI researchers in Israel growing?
- Yes, slower than the world. Between 2023 and 2025, 837 people in Israel published for the first time, against 861 over the three years before, a ratio of 1.0 where the world sits at 1.1.
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