Forging bilateral cybersecurity ties is among Yehuda Yaakov's goals in his new role as Israel's consul general to New England.
The Brooklyn, N.Y., native wants to model the partnerships on the life sciences relationship between Massachusetts and Israel by encouraging companies on both sides to open overseas offices and drawing in local academic institutions.
Yaakov, who is based in Boston, sees similarities between the two "ecosystems," but said there's greater urgency associated with cybersecurity.
"There's a very high awareness here that the cyberattacks are running very fast and are adapting very quickly to the solutions found," he said during a Boston Herald visit yesterday.
Israel is developing Be'er Sheva, in the country's south, as its center for cybersecurity. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev is in Be'er Sheva, the Israeli military is moving its cybersecurity units there, and entrepreneurial incubators have been established.
"I very much think our (Israel's and Massachusetts' competition) is Silicon Valley and San Francisco," Yaakov said.
An Israeli delegation of venture capital and tech firms — including Jerusalem Venture Partners, ThetaRay and CyberArk (whose U.S. headquarters is in Newton) — took part in a cybersecurity startup forum at Harvard Business School last month.
Cybersecurity is an "approachable" issue that ties into Yaakov's background, he said, noting his experience with running a counter-terrorism and homeland security unit for Israel's Foreign Service. Yaakov relocated to Israel 30 years ago and has been a member of its foreign ministry since 1989.
Israeli companies with a Massachusetts presence generated $6.2 billion in revenue and created 6,700 jobs in 2012, according to a study for the New England-Israel Business Council released in December.
In 2012, Gov. Deval Patrick announced $1.3 million in grants to four research and development collaborations between Bay State and Israeli companies under the Massachusetts-Israel Innovation Partnership.
MassChallenge, a Boston-based startup accelerator, also established an Israeli arm last year.
A nonstop flight between Boston and Tel Aviv — which Massport and the NEIBC have been pushing — would encourage even more entrepreneurial traffic, Yaakov said.
"It would be nice if it was El Al," he said, referring to the Israeli airline. "But there's no reason why it can't be a U.S. company."
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