Paradise was once a garden. In the Hebrew Bible it was Gan Eden, a place of rivers and fruit trees, of abundance made physical. In the modern State of Israel, paradise has migrated. It now lives behind glass screens in command centres, in the scrolling telemetry of water networks, in the nightly sweep of algorithms scanning millions of medical records. Israel has not abandoned the ancient promise of a land flowing with milk and honey. It has simply found a new way to deliver it.

Start with water, the resource that has shaped every civilisation in the Levant. Mekorot, the national water company, was founded in 1937, more than a decade before the state itself. It now manages over 13,000 kilometres of pipeline, more than 1,200 wells, and over 20 desalination facilities. Its centralised control centre produces more than 30 million data points every day: pressure, temperature, chloride levels, and flow volumes across the entire national grid. Gil Groskop, vice president for technology and digital transformation, has described the ambition plainly. Within a decade, the control room will resemble an autonomous vehicle, with the vast majority of optimal decisions made by artificial intelligence. When Hamas attacked on 7 October 2023, automated backup systems activated immediately, ensuring uninterrupted supply during nationwide chaos. Paradise, in that terrible moment, was not a garden. It was a dashboard that refused to go dark.

The same principle scales........

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