Israel’s computer science team competed for the first time in the International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI) 2026, held in Kazakhstan, with 480 students from 108 countries participating. In total, Israeli science teams won 20 Olympic medals this summer. Daniel Vorobyov, an 11th-grade student at Hadassah Neurim Youth Village, received a commendation, as did Itai Karni, an 11th-grade student at Ramon High School in Hod Hasharon. Nir Afek, an 11th-grade student at the Herzliya Six-Year Engineering High School, rounded out the team. The Education Ministry praised the students’ achievement as a milestone for Israeli science education.