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Israel approves a national AI plan targeting 100,000 sovereign processors

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Source: TPS-IL

Israel’s government approved a national plan to speed up AI development, drafted by the National Headquarters for AI in the Prime Minister’s Office, including sovereign computing capacity of 100,000 processing units, a national quantum computer, a National Institute for AI, AI training across schools and the workforce, and work on cyber AI, physical AI and countering deepfakes. No budget figure was given.

Why it matters

Israel set a national compute target and a central AI institute, though funding was not stated.

When
16 Jun 2026
ID
WTA-N-2026-0216
Where
Israel
Who
Prime Minister’s Office of Israel; Benjamin Netanyahu, Erez Eskel

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from TPS-IL. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 10 Oct 2026.

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Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2026-0216: “Israel approves a national AI plan targeting 100,000 sovereign processors.” wheresthe.ai, 16 Jun 2026. https://wheresthe.ai/d/il-national-ai-plan-approved-2026-06/ (source: TPS-IL).

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