Israel’s five-year National Quantum Initiative, launched in 2019 with a budget that grew from NIS 1.25 billion to NIS 1.5 billion, expired in late 2024 without a successor program in place. Innovation Minister Gila Gamliel appointed a follow-up committee in 2025 to develop a new program, but the committee had not yet produced a successor as of early 2026, according to The Times of Israel.
As of 2025, MAFAT official Nadav Cohen reported that Israel’s quantum academic research groups had grown from 144 at the program’s launch to 240, and quantum companies had increased from five to 20. The initiative’s cumulative national quantum spend sat in the low hundreds of millions of dollars.