Har Hotzvim ( he, הר חוצבים, ''lit''. Stonecutter's Mountain), also Campus of Science-Rich Industries (, ''Kiryat Ta'asiyot Atirot Mada'') is a high-tech industrial park located in northwest
Jerusalem
Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
. It is the city's main zone for science-based and technology companies, among them
Intel
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,
Teva,
NDS (now
Cisco
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),
RAD Data,
Mobileye
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,
Ophir Optronics,
Sandvine,
Radware,
IDT Global Israel,
Medtronic
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, SATEC,
Johnson and Johnson and more.
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/ref> In addition to large companies, the park also hosts about 100 small and medium-sized high-tech companies, as well as a technological incubator. In 2011, Har Hotzvim provided employment for 10,000 people.
History
The park was founded in the early 1970s by the Jerusalem Economic Corporation, in order to facilitate the development of a high tech
High technology (high tech), also known as advanced technology (advanced tech) or exotechnology, is technology that is at the cutting edge: the highest form of technology available. It can be defined as either the most complex or the newest te ...
industry in Jerusalem. At the time the location was at the edge of the built up area of the city, but over the years several major roads were built and accessibility to the site was improved; including: the Begin Expressway to the west of the park and Route 9 north of the park. One of the first tenants in the park was Luz Industries an early pioneer of Solar thermal energy
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Solar thermal collectors are classified by the United St ...
, which in the 1980s built the world's largest solar energy generating facility SEGS
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in the Mojave Desert
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.
The first major international corporation to establish a base at Har Hotzvim was Intel, which opened its Fab 8 semiconductor manufacturing plant in 1985.
In the early 1990s, as Jerusalem was awarded the status of a preferred development zone for the high-tech industry, an expansion plan was initiated by the Jerusalem Development Authority
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. The expansion took place in three stage (known as Har Hotzvim stage b, c and d) and by the mid 2000s most of the available plots have been developed.
In 2005, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries opened a new, state-of-the-art pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Har Hotzvim, at a cost of US$
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80 million. It initially produced about 4 billion tablets a year, rising to 8 billion a year when the second phase of building was completed.
In 2008 Intel closed its aging Fab 8 chip plant and started converting the facility to a die preparation
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Wafer mounting
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plant. The plant was inaugurated in November 2009; the company planned to operate it on Saturdays in accordance with its business needs, requiring continuous operation of the production line. This angered the Haredi Jewish
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community living in nearby religious neighborhoods, who strictly observe the Sabbath laws. For several weeks they gathered every Saturday outside the building; some threw rocks at the building and the police. Eventually representatives of the Haredi community reached an agreement with Intel to keep the plant open on Saturdays, but allow only non-Jews to work.
In July 2011 Haredi United Torah Judaism
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party in the Jerusalem city council proposed to clear the area for new residential development for their community, an offer that was firmly rejected by Jerusalem's mayor Nir Barkat
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In 2015 the Bank of Israel
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T ...
moved its headquarters and activity to the park, due to renovations in its facility in Givat Ram
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. Towards the end of 2018 several of the bank's divisions returned to the Givat Ram facility.
At the northern edge of the park are located Jerusalem's veterinarian services.
Tenants
* Intel
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* Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
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* Radware
* Umoove
* NDS Group
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(now part of Cisco
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)
* AVX Corporation
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* MRV Communications
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* Ericom Software
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* SATEC
* PricewaterhouseCoopers
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* IDT Global Israel
* Sigma-Aldrich
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Sigma-Aldrich was created in 1975 by the merger of Sigma Chemical Company a ...
* Ophir Optronics
* Mobileye
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* Sandvine
* RAD Data Communications
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RAD is a member of the $1.3 billion RAD Group of c ...
* Minicom Advanced Systems
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* BAE Systems Rokar
* Ness Technologies
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* BrightSource Energy
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* Solel Solar Systems
* Digital Fuel
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History
Digital Fuel was co-founded in 2000 by Benny Lehmann, Israel Dancziger, Gilad Raz and Yak ...
* Oridion
* Mango DSP
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* CDI Systems
* Dexcel Pharma
* Gamatronic
* Medinol
* BioLineRx
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Corporate history
The firm was established in 2003 as a jo ...
* Deloitte
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* Brainsway
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* Matrix
* AccuBeat
* Intec Pharma
* BioMetrix
* Data Technologies
* Omrix (Acquired by Johnson & Johnson
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)
* MalamTeam
* Compaq
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* Wizcom Technologies
See also
*Economy of Israel
The economy of Israel is a developed free-market economy. The prosperity of Israel's advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a nuclear-weapons capability, modern inf ...
*Jerusalem Technology Park
Jerusalem Technology Park ( he, גט"י - הגן הטכנולוגי), also Malha Technology Park ( he, הגן הטכנולוגי מלחה, ''Hagan HaTechnologi Malha'') is a high-tech industrial park located in the Malha neighborhood of southwest ...
in Malha
Malha is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, between Pat, Ramat Denya and Kiryat Hayovel in the Valley of Rephaim. Before 1948, Malha was an Arab village known as al-Maliha ( ar, المالحة).
History Antiquity
Excavations in Malha revea ...
*Silicon Wadi
Silicon Wadi ( he, סִילִיקוֹן וְאֵדֵי, ) is a region in Israel that serves as one of the global centres for advanced technology. It spans the Israeli coastal plain, and is cited as among the reasons why the country has b ...
References
External links
Photo of Teva complex, Har Hotzvim
{{Neighborhoods of Jerusalem
Neighbourhoods of Jerusalem
Science parks in Israel
Economy of Jerusalem
High-technology business districts in Israel