A Living Lab Shaping the Future of Global Agri-Food
The Agri-FoodTech Northern Partnership is the strategic backbone of Israel’s leading innovation ecosystem.
At the core of our operations lies a powerful tapestry of 15 major entities - the key pillars of research, execution, and influence in the Galilee and Golan.
The Northern Partnership serves as the operational arm for this collective, dedicated to translating scientific excellence and entrepreneurial vision into massive economic growth, regional resilience, and practical solutions that deliver extraordinary value on both national and global scales.
Our strength stems from a rare fusion of advanced scientific knowledge, groundbreaking agriculture, and global industry.
As a management backbone uniting the finest minds, laboratories, entrepreneurs, and local authorities, the Northern Partnership creates the precise conditions for world-class startups to thrive.
We are creating thousands of high-quality jobs while establishing the Galilee and Golan as Israel’s premier innovation hub for food and agriculture.
We are the fastest and most precise bridge between pioneering research and the international market.
Through advanced infrastructure, strategic connections, and an inspiring work environment, the Northern Partnership transforms the Galilee and Golan into a region where the world’s most complex global challenges meet Israel’s boldest solutions.
Strategic Data Intelligence Compass
Harnessing the power of GIS and AI to distill complex field data into a sharp strategic compass.
We provide our partners, from government and research to farmers and investors, with the clarity to lead the revolution from a position of strength, ensuring optimized performance and technological certainty.
We provide our partners, from government and research to farmers and investors, with the clarity to lead the revolution from a position of strength, ensuring optimized performance and technological certainty.
8Q Visionary Innovation District
The physical nexus where visionary ideas accelerate into reality.
This dynamic campus integrates entrepreneurs, elite researchers, and cutting-edge laboratories, fostering a powerful synergy that delivers a decisive strategic advantage.
This dynamic campus integrates entrepreneurs, elite researchers, and cutting-edge laboratories, fostering a powerful synergy that delivers a decisive strategic advantage.
Living Labs Operational Certainty
Delivering technological and economic certainty while significantly accelerating Time-to-Market.
Within our Living Labs, your technology integrates with real-world conditions, scaling into a mature, proven, and market-leading solution for the global Agri-Food industry.
Within our Living Labs, your technology integrates with real-world conditions, scaling into a mature, proven, and market-leading solution for the global Agri-Food industry.
Northern Talent Growth Engine
We cultivate the industry’s next generation through advanced training and innovative education, facilitating precision matching exceptional talent and frontier ventures to ensure a continuous flow of high-level expertise throughout the ecosystem.
Vision in Motion: Connecting Soil, Technology, and Economy
Established in 2022, the Eastern Galilee & Golan AgriFoodTech Partnership serves as the strategic and operational arm for managing the regional ecosystem. Operating as a multi-sector partnership, the Partnership unites academia, research institutes, local government, agriculture, industry, and philanthropy under one roof.
This model is inspired by world-leading ecosystems such as those in the Netherlands and the U.S.; which derive their strength from the tight synchronization of all stakeholders across the value chain.
Our role is to orchestrate regional activity: identifying strategic opportunities, translating them into actionable work plans, and mentoring ventures from the ideation stage to field implementation. By bridging the gap between academia and R&D with farmers, industrialists, entrepreneurs, and investors, the Partnership fosters a supportive business environment. Our mission is to position the region, and Israel as a whole, at the forefront of smart agricultural and food technologies.
About us
Established in 2022, the Directorate serves as a multi-sectoral strategic partnership, functioning as the central operating system for the Eastern Galilee and Golan AgriFoodTech ecosystem. We unify diverse stakeholders including academia, local government, agriculture, industry, entrepreneurs, and philanthropy under a single regional vision.
Our mandate is to architect the ecosystem by identifying strategic opportunities, translating them into actionable roadmaps, and rigorously guiding projects from ideation to full-scale implementation. We act as the binding force that synchronizes interests and resources, positioning the region as a recognized center of excellence in smart agriculture, food technologies, and global food security.
