The 9th National Hackathon® will be held at the Faculty of Industrial Engineering Technology& Management, HIT, on March 25-26 ,2026, and will involve students from all the relevant academic institutions in Israel and overseas.
The participants in the 9th
National Hackathon® deal or “hack” with professional challenges that are submitted by corporations, start-ups, and service organizations, both private and public. The students develop solutions, prototypes and paradigms that are presented to a panel of referees consisting of senior engineers, executives, and academic faculty members. The interdisciplinary teams of students that come from various academic institutions and departments are engaged for 36 hours continuously, without any time to rest or sleep, mentored by industry executives and academic faculty.
The criteria used to judge the teams’ deliverables are: The degree of innovation and creativity, technological feasibility, economic and business feasibility, the progress made re the solutions offered during the 36 hours period, and the expected technological, economic, and social impact (ESG,SDGs). The awards to the teams that came first, second and third place are IS 15,000, IS 10,000 and IS 5,000, respectively, or comparable amounts in US dollars.
The following two charts demonstrate the professional challenges presented to the participants during former National Hackathons (Top chart), as well as the representation of various academic institutions at these events (Bottom chart).
Past corporate participants in the hackathon include The Haier Corporation, M51 Gaming, Voyage Capital, e-Bay, Intel, Kupat Holim Clalit (HMO), Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem, Mekorot Water Works, The Prime Minister Office, Davidoff Institute at Rabin Medical Center, Optimove and other startup ventures. We invite you – technology and industrial corporations – to take part in the Ninth National Hackathon, to propose professional problems and challenges for teams of students from multiple academic disciplines, as well as to provide sponsorship for this important, unique, national, event. We invite students, preferably female students, both undergraduate and graduate students from local and international academic institutions, to take part in the Ninth National Hackathon®. The criteria used to judge the deliverables of the National Hackathon, are: Creativity and innovation, technological feasibility, economic and business feasibility, the progress made during the hackathon, the expected of the technological, economic, and social impact (ESG). The awards for the teams in the first, second, third places are IS 15,000, IS 10,000, IS 5,000, respectively.
Special thanks to our partners of many years. Special thanks to all the academic institutions involved, the National Advisory Board of the 9th National Hackathon®. Special thanks to the Ira Foundation for Business, Technology and Society that for more than fifty (50!) years sponsors and initiates the main national academic and professional activities, including the Bi-Annual National IE&M Conferences, the Bi-Annual National Research IE&M Conferences, and the Annual National Hackathons®.
Watch a short video of the Eighth National Hackathon
You are all invited to attend the 9th National Hackathon®, enjoy the teamwork, the creative vibe and the interdisciplinary cooperation.
See you all at the 9th National Hackathon®!
Prof. Ehud Menipaz, Founding Chairman, The National Hackaton®
Dean, Faculty Industrial Engineering & Technology, HIT
Chairman, Board of Governors, Association of Engineers, Architects and Academics in the Technological Sciences Israel (AEAI)
Chairman, Industrial Engineering & Management Association (AEAI)