Israel Conferences — Upcoming Events Lookup

Find upcoming conferences and professional events in Israel. The skill enforces a priority order: hit the curated whitelist of Israel-focused event aggregators before doing any open web search, so results are anchored in known-good sources rather than ad-spam.

Priority whitelist (check first, in order)

Only after these have been consulted should an open web search be used (and only to fill in gaps — e.g. a niche topic the aggregators miss).

How to use

1. Quick lookup — agent-driven (preferred)

For most user queries, the right pattern is:

1. Call WebFetch on each whitelist URL in order, asking the model to extract events matching the user's filters (topic, city, date window). Stop early if you have enough relevant results.
2. Merge results, dedupe by event name + date, sort by start date ascending.
3. If the user asked for a topic poorly covered by the whitelist (e.g. very niche), supplement with WebSearch for "upcoming [topic] conference Israel 2026".
4. Return a tight list: name, date(s), city/venue, organiser, link.

2. Bulk fetch — helper script

python3 scripts/fetch_conferences.py                 # fetch all whitelist URLs, print raw text
python3 scripts/fetch_conferences.py --source dev    # only dev.events
python3 scripts/fetch_conferences.py --list-sources  # show source keys
python3 scripts/fetch_conferences.py --json          # JSON envelope per source

The script is a thin fetch+strip helper — it does not try to parse every aggregator's bespoke HTML. It returns cleaned text/HTML per source, ready to hand to the LLM for extraction. This avoids brittle scrapers breaking when sites redesign.

Source keys

• events → events.co.il homepage
• events-feed → events.co.il direct events feed
• conferenceindex → conferenceindex.org Israel page
• ivc → ivc-online.com events
• icx → icx.co.il professional conferences board
• dev → dev.events Israel/tech

Filters to surface to the user

When the user's request is broad ("conferences in Israel"), ask or assume:

• Topic — tech / AI / biomed / fintech / marketing / HR / legal / medical / academic / startup
• City — Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Herzliya, online
• Date window — next 30 / 60 / 90 days; specific month
• Language — sessions in English vs. Hebrew (matters for foreign attendees)

When to use

• "What conferences are coming up in Israel?"
• "Any AI events in Tel Aviv next month?"
• "Find me biomed conferences in Israel in Q3."
• "כנסי הייטק בישראל"
• "Tech meetups Israel May 2026"
• "Are there any marketing summits in Tel Aviv soon?"

Notes

• events.co.il and icx.co.il are Hebrew-first — translate event titles to English in the final summary unless the user asked in Hebrew.
• conferenceindex.org is global; many of its "Israel" listings are call-for-papers far in advance — flag dates clearly.
• ivc-online.com skews to paid VC events — useful for startup/investor scene, less so for general professional development.
• Some sites (icx.co.il in particular) gate full event detail behind a click-through; the listing page still gives name + date + city, which is usually enough.
• Do not persist or cache results — event listings change daily.