page_title: List of Israelis
section_title: High-tech
hierarchical_section_title: List of Israelis / Entrepreneurs / High-tech
caption_attribution_description: Yossi Vardi, former Director General of the Development and Energy Ministries of Israel
context_page_description: Israelis are the citizens or permanent residents of the State of Israel, a multiethnic state populated by people of different ethnic backgrounds. The largest ethnic groups in Israel are Jews, followed by Arabs and other minorities.
context_section_description: Beny Alagem – founder of Packard Bell
  Moshe Bar – founder of XenSource, Qumranet
  Safra Catz – president of Oracle
  Yossi Gross – recipient of almost 600 patents, founder of 27 medical technology companies in Israel and the Chief Technology Office officer of Rainbow Medical.
  Itzik Kotler – founder and CTO of SafeBreach, Information Security Specialist
  Daniel M. Lewin – founder of Akamai Technologies
  Shai Reshef – educational entrepreneur, founder and president of University of the People
  Bob Rosenschein – founder of GuruNet, Answers.com (Israeli-based)
  Gil Schwed – founder of Check Point
  Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans – founders of Zend Technologies (developers of PHP)
  Arik and Yossi Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir – founders of Mirabilis (developers of ICQ)
  Zohar Zisapel – co-founder of the RAD Group
  Iftach Ian Amit – co-founder of BeeFence, prominent Hacker and Information Security Practitioner
caption: Yossi Vardi
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