Some 30 high school students with "brilliant ideas" for technological developments began Tuesday a three-day workshop hosted by the Unit 8200, which operates within the Intelligence Corps, the Hebrew Ma'ariv daily said.
Apart from collecting signal intelligence and deciphering code, the Israeli army's elite sigint unit oversees defensive and offensive cyber operations, with the demand for suitable candidates often surpassing the supply.
In addition to spotting talent for military service, the workshop also aims to start up the participants' ideas, the report said.
Attesting to the acute shortage, military head-hunters have been dispatched to scout for young computer hackers among Jewish communities worldwide with a potential to become cyber-warfare specialists, and persuade them to immigrate to Israel, Yediot Aharonot reported earlier last month.
The report came months after the Israeli military officially acknowledged that it engages in cyber warfare.
"The Israel Defense Forces is fighting consistently and relentlessly in cyberspace, collecting intelligence and protecting the army's networks as well," the Israeli military said on its website.
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