We are pleased to invite you to The First Israeli Conference on Hardware and Side-channel Attacks to be held in Barkan Hall, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, from May 5-7, 2019. The conference will bring together researchers from industry and academia, as well as independent hackers. The objective of the conference is to form active research collaborations between Israeli and international researchers in the field of hardware and side-channel attacks, and to bridge the gap between designers, evaluators and attackers of secure systems. In this conference attackers and protectors will have the opportunity to talk about how things fail and how one may aim at protecting our valuables.[…]