Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Israel's Reichman University have partnered to open a school that will offer courses on programming, software testing, business development, and data analysis.

In an announcement made earlier this week, the university said that the program will focus on students from communities underrepresented in the tech sector: Ultra-Orthodox, Arab professionals,
women, members of the Ethiopian community, and the geo-social periphery and disadvantaged socio-economic groups.

Israel's high-tech industry is made up of about 350,000, roughly 10 percent of its total workforce.

Classes will be held between the Google Campus in Tel Aviv and Reichman University's Herzliya campus.

"We believe that a variety of voices, opinions and perspectives enriches Israeli high-tech and its developments," Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel, said.

The program is part of the $25 million initiative the multinational technology company announced earlier this year that is set to fund skills development programs for Israel's underrepresented communities for the next five years.