Israel joins prestigious US-led coalition seeking to secure AI industry

The Prime Minister’s Office announced on Saturday that Israel has formally joined Pax Silica Initiative, an US-led global coalition that seeks to secure the rapidly developing AI industry. 

The director of Israel’s National Economic Council, Avi Simhon welcomed the news as “a badge of honor for the State of Israel and the Israeli high-tech industry.”

“Together with our international partners, we are working to fortify the global AI industry, strengthen the resilience of supply chains, and ensure the economic and security prosperity of the participating countries and their citizens," Simhon stated.

The Pax Silica Initiative officially states that it seeks to “secure, prosperous, and innovation driven silicon supply chain – from critical minerals and energy inputs to advanced manufacturing, semiconductors, AI infrastructure, and logistics.”

The inaugural members of the new initiative are the United States, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Israel, the Netherlands, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia and the OECD. 

The Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem stressed that the initiative’s goal is to “unite the leading technology nations and jointly establish the economic order of the AI era” by establishing a “secure, resilient, and innovative technological ecosystem.”

The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office explained that the name of the coalition is a combination of the Latin word Pax meaning “peace, stability, and enduring prosperity,” and Silicia, “a chemical element essential for producing the chips required for the age of AI.”

Known internationally as the Start-Up Nation, Israel ranks among the most technologically advanced countries in the world and has also emerged as a leading player in the expanding global AI industry. 

While seeking to unite the world’s most technologically advanced nations, the American-led initiative also aims to protect key innovative technologies from “access or control by hostile nations.” While not stated explicitly, this refers to countries such as Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. 

The United States, the United Kingdom and Israel ranked as the three countries that were subjected to the highest volume of cyber-attacks according to the Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2025. China reportedly dominates the cyberattacks on the U.S., Russia focuses on targeting the UK and European countries while Iran’s cyber warfare focuses on Israel. 

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly changing and advancing many fields in our world.

It was reported last month that a new AI project seeks to help researchers to speed up the time-consuming exploration of the ancient Jewish script treasures of the Cairo Geniza. 

"We are constantly trying to improve the abilities of the machine to decipher ancient scripts," assessed Daniel Stokl Ben Ezra, a researcher at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. 

"The modern translation possibilities are incredibly advanced now, and interlacing all this becomes much more feasible, much more accessible to the normal and not scientific reader," he explained.

In October, FireDome, a unique Israeli developed AI-based wildfire detection system, successfully passed the first real-world test. 

“Wildfires are getting bigger, costlier, and harder to insure against. Today’s demonstration shows FireDome can act in seconds to protect lives, property, and critical assets before first responders arrive,” FireDome’s CEO and co-founder, Gadi Benjamini said.