Monthly Archives: May 2021

Israel’s cloud

Posted on May 31, 2021

Google and Amazon Web Services have signed Israel’s $1 billion “Project Nimbus” contract to move the data of Israeli Government ministries and other public entities to “the cloud”. It will generate 3,000 jobs for local Israeli companies, which will build … Continue reading →

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Israeli tech’s journey to the asteroids

Posted on May 31, 2021

Amongst recent news of Israel’s Ramon.Space (see here) is that some of its equipment still sits on the asteroid Ryugu, many millions of miles from Earth. It was used in the Japanese Space Agency’s 2014-2020 Hayabusa-2 mission. Hayabusa-2 will rendezvous … Continue reading →

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From Mars to Jupiter

Posted on May 31, 2021

The cryogenic cooler from Israel’s Ricor has been keeping the X-ray detector on the Mars Curiosity Rover operational on the surface of the planet Mars since 2012 (see here previously). Ricor now has 215 employees on Kibbutz Ein Harod and … Continue reading →

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Coexistence Is real

Posted on May 31, 2021

Articles from executives including Intel Israel and SodaStream. Numerous Israeli startups (see here), multinationals and professions employ Israeli Arab Muslims working happily alongside Israeli Jews. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3907912,00.html https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3907941,00.html https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3907903,00.html https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3908011,00.html

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Israeli Arab woman receives kidney from Jewish victim of Lod riot

Posted on May 31, 2021

One of the kidneys of Yigal Yehoshua, murdered in Lod, was donated to Randa, a female Arab resident of Jerusalem. She said, “I thank Yigal’s family, from heaven they will be comforted.” Five patients benefited from Yigal’s organs. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306468

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Connecting the world with education

Posted on May 31, 2021

Israeli students joined thousands worldwide for the annual celebration of World ORT’s global education network. This year’s theme was “connection” with youngsters in Israel, Ukraine, Panama, Italy, Brazil, Russia and more participating in a digital postcard exchange and a live … Continue reading →

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The Bright Initiative

Posted on May 31, 2021

Israel’s Bright Data has established The Bright Initiative to help work with British organizations to establish the UK’s National Data Strategy (NDS). During the consultancy stage, Bright Data highlighted the 3 key areas of the NDS – internet transparency, data … Continue reading →

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From the White House to VC founder

Posted on May 31, 2021

Israel’s Lee Moser describes her journey from chief of staff for the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. to become founder and managing partner of venture capital fund AnD Ventures. She realized that Israel’s strength was in technology and now controls … Continue reading →

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Training for the underrepresented in Israeli hi-tech

Posted on May 31, 2021

Cybersecurity education platform Cybint and the 8200 Alumni Association are using myInterview (see here), to select candidates for a 3-month cybersecurity training course. The aim is to attract more women, haredim, Arabs and new immigrants to a career in cybersecurity. … Continue reading →

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Working together

Posted on May 31, 2021

These articles are from some of the many groups dedicated to understanding and friendship between Israeli Jews and Arabs and residents of the Palestinian Authority-administered territories. The current situation is only inspiring them to work even harder. https://www.israel21c.org/pain-and-hope-fill-hearts-of-israeli-coexistence-activists/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-we-are-brothers-arabs-israelis-in-tech-call-for-healing-social-rifts/ https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306750

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