The NATIONAL CYBER CENTER

The Cyber Center in B’er Sheva operates in cooperation with local and international organizations that have made it their mission to turn the capital of the desert into a cyber spark. This partnership has created an exclusive network between academic institutions, researchers, companies, elite military units, investors, and entrepreneurs. Together with Ben Gurion University, Dell, Microsoft, Intel, Wix, CyberArk, AllScripts, Oracle, Leidos, Rad, Taboola, Dalet, Refael, and many more, we have created cyber-leading solutions, market opportunities, and unprecedented track record of growth.

Margalit Startup City Be’er Sheva was established with a mission to identify, nurture and build the next wave of cyber security and big data companies emerging from Israel. Over 18 cyber companies have started their journey in our center in Be’er Sheva, and developed breakthrough technologies in the cyber security fields. Among them, Morphisec, Rezilion, Secret Double Octopus, Coro, CyActive, SCADAfence, Source Defense, Valid, 1Touch and many more. The startups that were established at the Be’er Sheva Cyber Center currently operate all over the world, employ hundreds of employees, and market technologies to giant global companies.

JVP Cyber Lab was established in 2013 as the first government-backed early-stage incubator focusing on cyber-security and big-data. It is strategically located in the epicenter of Israeli cyber innovation, bringing together academia, multinational corporations, and experts with experience from the military’s elite computer units. Over 18 of JVP’s cyber portfolio companies have grown in the cyber labs of Be’er Sheva, bringing solutions to the world’s cyber challenges, including disruptive technology-provider CyActive, which was acquired by PayPal. Following, PayPal established its new security design center in Be’er Sheva.

With a vision to create an innovative vibrant and growing tech community in Beer-Sheva – the heart of the Negev, Tech7 was established in early 2015 by a group of young students and graduates alongside industry figures such as JVP, DELL-EMC, and Ben Gurion University. With over 10,000 followers through Facebook, Meetup and other social networks, Tech7 is proud to be the largest tech community in Beer-Sheva and the south.

Tech7 aims to focuses on bringing together and creating synergy between entrepreneurs, start-ups and multi-national companies for the common good of the local community and in order to promote and support technological initiatives in Beer-Sheva.

Margalit Startup City Be’er Sheva is pioneering the next wave of cyber security and big data companies emerging from Israel. The Cyber center in Be’er Sheva started as the first government-backed, early-stage incubator focusing on cyber security and big data, bringing together academia, multinational corporations (such as General Electric, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Singapore Airlines, Bank Ha’Poalim, Paypal and others) and experts with experience from the military’s elite computer units.

Founded in 2002 by Erel and Debbie Margalit, Bakehila is a nationally renowned educational non-profit that seeks to foster leadership, equal opportunity, and social mobility among elementary and high school students in Jewish and Arab communities.