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Erez Askal, head of the National AI Directorate in the Prime Minister's Office, speaks at the AI Week conference at Tel Aviv University, November 9, 2026 (Chen Galili / AI Week at Tel Aviv University)

Israel needs its own artificial intelligence infrastructure and strategy, because critical services such as energy, water, and healthcare systems will soon depend on the technology, said Erez Askal, head of the National AI Directorate at the Prime Minister’s Office.

Speaking at the AI Week conference at Tel Aviv University on Monday, Askal warned that Israel is at risk of growing dependence on foreign tech companies and on access to their infrastructure and models, in order to run basic services that are expected to be managed by AI in the coming years.

Those concerns have sharpened this year.…