Tim Cook visits Israel to open Apple’s new R&D center | ZDNet
From zero presence just a few years ago, Apple has become entrenched in the Israeli tech economy. And after acquiring two Israeli startups – Anobit in 2012 and PrimeSense in 2013 – Apple now has some 700 employees in the country, with 250 hired in just the last year, according to industry sources.
Speaking to Apple employees in Israel on Thursday, CEO Tim Cook said that Israel is now Apple’s second largest engineering facility in the world.
Now, those workers – and the additional 50 the company is seeking to hire, the sources said – will be housed in a brand spanking new facility in Tel Aviv’s tech suburb, Herzliya. Inaugurating the new Israel facility yesterday, Cook told Apple employees that “Apple is in Israel because the engineering talent here is incredible. You guys are incredibly important to everything that we do and to all the products that we build.”