A few months ago, the British news website Tortoise Media completed the acquisition of the UK’s oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer. Until last year, Tortoise Media published the Tortoise Global AI Index, but following the acquisition, the index is now instead at observer.co.uk/data/global-ai. The Observer Global AI Index is advertised as being “the world’s first benchmark of countries on their level of investment, innovation and implementation of artificial intelligence” and is now in its sixth iteration.

We are, of course, interested on Israel’s stand in this popular and often-cited index. In the 2025 edition, the first positive observation is that Israel is ranked 7th out of 93 countries, after France and before Canada. This hopefully reflects a reversal from a negative to a positive trend, as Israel had been dropping in the rankings, falling to 9th place in 2024.

It is worthwhile to take a deeper look at the “pillars” and “sub-pillars” of the index to examine Israel’s strengths and weaknesses.

The index is composed of three pillars and seven sub-pillars, as follows:

In 2025, Israel improved dramatically in two........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)