Interns in High-Tech and Advanced Industry in Border-Adjacent Villages (Directive 4.86)

Interns in High-Tech / Advanced Industry — Border Villages (Directive 4.86)

Funds first-job placements for technology and engineering graduates in border-area industrial zones through employer and trainee support.

Directive 4.86 — Program for Integration of Interns (First Job) in High-Tech and Advanced Industry in Border-Adjacent Villages — is a new employment-grant programme published 23 April 2026 and operated by Israel's Ministry of Economy and Industry through the Authority for Investments and Development. The programme is explicitly designed to incentivise high-tech companies and advanced-industry employers to absorb first-job workers at facilities located in border-adjacent villages defined under Government Decision 3841. Eligible employees are graduates of a technological or engineering academic degree, or holders of a practical-engineer (Handasa'i) certificate, who are entering their first professional position. The geographical targeting reflects Israel's post-2023 north-region economic recovery agenda, and the programme joins several other human-capital tracks at the Investment Authority.

Eligibility for employers is restricted to for-profit high-tech and advanced-industry companies registered and operating in Israel, with facilities in the border-adjacent villages listed in Appendix 6. The employee being absorbed must be a first-job hire holding a technology or engineering degree or a Handasa'i certificate. Award amounts per position are specified in the Directive 4.86 PDF (23 April 2026) and its Summary, which were not fully extracted at ingest. The programme operates as a single application cycle with a hard submission deadline of 7 July 2026. Applications are submitted via the Investment Authority portal (gov.il/he/pages/grant-4-86).

Required application materials include the Managers' Declaration (Appendix 1), a beneficiary details form (Appendix 2), economic feasibility tests (Appendix 4), and a request form for repeat discussion if needed (Appendix 5). Applicants must verify that their facility is in a village listed in Appendix 6 under Government Decision 3841. Competitive applications will document the number of first-job positions planned, the engineering or technology qualifications of intended hires, and the facility's presence in an eligible border-adjacent location.