HERZLIYA, Israel — Israel’s government approved plans for a new civil space program in mid-2010, but it was not until early January that the promised 180 million shekel ($48.3 million) annual budget made its way into Israel Space Agency accounts. For an agency that had squeaked by for decades on just a few million dollars each year, 2013 marks a trajectory of high hopes and new beginnings for Israel’s civil space sector.

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