A handout picture from October 2019 shows a component of Google’s Quantum Computer in the Santa Barbara lab, California, U.S. Picture taken in October 2019. Google/Handout via REUTERS The Israeli government’s innovation arm, together with the country’s defense ministry, has announced a $62 million investment toward building the country’s first quantum computer. “Quantum computational ability will lay the technological foundation for an Israeli ecosystem that will lead future developments in security, economics, technology, engineering and science,” the Israel Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Research & Development and the Israel Innovation Authority said in a joint statement on Tuesday. The project aims...