JJ Ben-Joseph, at The Blogs

May 1, 2026, 6:17 PM

Revealing The Hidden Dependencies That Could Cripple Israel

Israeli independence was not be secured by a flag, a speech, or a line in a Basic Law. What secures sovereign independence? It is inventory. It is fuel. It is port capacity. It is the boring spare part that keeps an aircraft flying. It...

Apr 26, 2026, 4:27 PM

For Israel to win in AI it must play a different game

The public image of the AI race is now a physical one: giant data centers popping up in remote farmland, utilities fielding power requests 100x larger than their existing systems, and hyperscalers treating GPUs, cooling systems, and land parcels...

Mar 19, 2026, 8:47 PM

Yes, Israel is Lagging in AI (And What To Do About It)

For years, Israelis have comforted themselves with a familiar story: we may be small, but we know how to win in technology. We built a world-class cybersecurity sector, turned military experience into startups, talent, and exits at a scale...

Feb 13, 2026, 3:55 PM

Something is different about AI research now

If 2025 was the year of agents, 2026 is starting to look like the year the agentic loop tightens On a Monday in early February, an AI safety leader walked out of a frontier AI lab and left behind a...

Oct 27, 2025, 9:51 AM

The Shaliach

He was old when they last called him a Shaliach. His beard was white, his hands cracked from years on the road. He carried no weapon and no wealth, only a bag of letters and a faith that distance...

Oct 22, 2025, 3:00 PM

The quiet war against Israel and the Jewish people

There is a quiet war going on. You will not see it on a battlefield. You feel it in rooms that go cold when the word “Israel” is spoken. You see it in emails that never get answered. You...

Sep 7, 2025, 12:54 AM

Is Israel the last Western country?

Brendan McCord’s recent essay, “On Western Dynamism,” argues that the West’s power doesn’t come from enforced unity but from a live tension among three rival visions of the good life: the heroic, the philosophic, and the biblical. Societies thrive...

Aug 22, 2025, 6:27 PM

AgentCalc: Cracking Verticals with Israeli Agentic AI

In the race to build wealth with AI, the conversation is often dominated by huge models, billion-dollar compute budgets, and enterprise pilots. But doing AI in Israel doesn’t always mean chasing the biggest or flashiest frontier. Israel’s tech DNA has...

Aug 15, 2025, 5:28 PM

The Second Big Objection and Why It’s Irrelevant Under a Pro-Israel White House

When you float the idea of a US–Israel national security technology fund, the second objection comes quickly after the intelligence stereotype: “Now is not the time. Israel is too unpopular. Look at Gaza, look at the protests, look at...

Aug 14, 2025, 4:47 PM

The Elephant in the Room: Israeli Intelligence

Whenever the idea of a US–Israel national security technology fund comes up, someone eventually lowers their voice and says it: “But what about Israeli intelligence?” The implication is that by working with Israeli companies, the United States is somehow...

About Me

JJ Ben-Joseph is the founder and CEO of TensorSpace (TensorSpace.ai), a startup studio and boutique consultancy building practical, AI-powered tools and advancing Israeli technology. He also founded Claw & Talon (ClawAndTalon.Capital), a strategic US-Israel investment consulting firm inspired by IQT’s dual-use model and focused on defense, national-security, and critical-infrastructure technologies. Previously, JJ served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at AION Labs and worked at IQT, helping biosecurity and AI startups succeed with US government customers. He has been a technical contributor on AI-enabled drug discovery and pandemic-response tools. JJ is a former fellow of the American Jewish Committee, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, and the Foresight Institute. An oleh chadash, he lives in the Tel Aviv area with his wife and two daughters.