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IDF Innovation Branch Tasked with Meeting Enemy Threats
(Algemeiner) Sharon Wrobel - Lt.-Col. Michal Frenkel, 34, said in an interview, "We need to shape the future of defense today and to innovate to be one step ahead of our enemies. I get up in the morning as the head of the innovation branch to make sure that the armed forces have all they need technologically to meet security threats and that soldiers with innovative ideas have the right mechanisms within the IDF to fulfill their dreams to solve operational challenges." The branch, established in 2020, brings innovation of future technologies across all of the IDF's divisions under one roof. Frenkel's background is in anthropology, organizational sociology and behavioral sciences. Before rejoining the IDF after her mandatory service, she worked at tech giant Intel Corp. "I came back because there is no soul in the high-tech industry....I wanted to get up in the morning and feel that what I do has meaning."