CTech's Monday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Opinion| Talent crunch threatens the continued growth of Israeli tech. The accomplishments of the Israeli tech industry mask the fact that Israel’s main growth engine, its tech industry, is slowing down, writes Aharon Aharon, the director of Israel’s government innovation investment arm. Read more

Amazon could be translating Kindle to Hebrew and Arabic. The e-commerce giant is looking to hire a UX designer for its Kindle division who is fluent and has experience designing for right-to-left reading languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Read more

Jerusalem incubator inks double Korean VC partnership. OurCrowd Labs/02 is a seed-stage incubator focused on deep technology startups in domains including artificial intelligence, deep learning, autonomous transportation and smart cities. Read more

British energy company Centrica leads round for electric vehicle charging network. Tel Aviv-based Driivz develops and sells a cloud-based electric vehicle charging network management software. Read more

News Briefs

Israel to privatize national postal company. Read more

Content creation startup Apester launches story tool. Read more

Industrial machinery monitoring startup EcoPlant raises $1.7 million. Read more 

Invoice management company Stampli raised $6.7 million. Read more