{"id":499018,"date":"2026-06-18T12:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499018\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:31:16","slug":"naftali-bennett-forms-ai-committee-to-shape-israels-tech-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/499018\/","title":{"rendered":"Naftali Bennett forms AI committee to shape Israel’s tech policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett<\/a> established an advisory committee on artificial intelligence ahead of the upcoming elections to advance and develop a long-term national policy on AI<\/a>, his office announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The plan is said to be aimed at boosting the country’s technological edge and positioning Israel as a global and regional leader in artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Bennett\u2019s Together Party is one of the leading parties in the opposition bloc seeking to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> in the upcoming elections, which are set to take place no later than October 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His party merged with opposition leader Yair Lapid\u2019s Yesh Atid in April.<\/p>\n

The AI advisory committee will work to develop policy recommendations for the government in areas that include innovation, education, regulation, and security, Bennett\u2019s office stated.<\/p>\n

The committee is said to be aimed at promoting the use of AI technologies<\/a> for the benefit of the public and the economy.<\/p>\n

The committee is also expected to examine the opportunities and challenges posed by AI for the country’s economy, society, and security.<\/p>\n

Bennett\u2019s office noted that the initiative seeks to strengthen Israel\u2019s advantage in a field that has yet to reach its full potential.<\/p>\n

The committee includes several experts in AI, technology, academia, and the technology industry, among them Prof. Yoav Shoham, professor emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University; Daniel Schreiber, co-founder and CEO of Lemonade; and Prof. Meir Feder, founder and head of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former prime minister Naftali Bennett established an advisory committee on artificial intelligence ahead of the upcoming elections to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[345,49,85,46,99185,953,43,125,19344],"class_list":["post-499018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-ai","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lapid","tag-naftali-bennett","tag-news","tag-technology","tag-yair-lapid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}