Sharon Wrobel
Israeli-American startup founder Bentzion Levinson is one of many entrepreneurs who returned from the battlefield with a sense of urgency after being on extended reserve duty during Israel’s 17-month military campaign against the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip. For Levinson, the war exposed the IDF’s vast challenge to defend against cheap and effective enemy drones that were causing casualties and damage.
“On October 7, 2023, Hamas used cheap Chinese drones bought on Alibaba to disable our cameras and monitoring systems,” Levinson, a reserve combat commander, told The Times of Israel. “Serving on the northern border for more than two months, I experienced how the [Iran-backed] Hezbollah group was taking down soldiers with drones.”
“I came back to work at the drone startup I founded a couple of years ago with the urgency and need to take action and provide the best tech for the most complex missions, as drones are reshaping modern global warfare and can get Israeli soldiers out of harm’s way,” Levinson said.
Born in New York, Levinson moved to Israel with his family at the age of 10, went through the Israeli education system and served as a combat commander in the IDF. In 2018, he joined a national hackathon project tasked with helping quash the scourge of balloons, kites and drones that Hamas launched from the Gaza Strip carrying airborne incendiary devices that started countless fires and burned large swaths of Israeli land.
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