The tech giants’ organizational culture raises significant questions about the wisdom of granting them exclusive control over Israel’s government data for the next seven years.
“I wanted to write about all generations, one century, several families and cities,” says Israeli author Moshe Sakal, describing the ambitious initial outline for his novel, “The Diamond Setter,” a work that took him six years to complete.
“Targeting Jewish businesses is straight-up anti-Semitic,” California State Sen. Scott Wiener wrote in a series of Twitter posts that included photos of the graffiti and past anti-Semitic vandalism of the store.
“All students deserve to learn in an environment that is free from discrimination and harassment,” said Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education.
Committee head MK Yifat Shasha-Biton “fell into a trap set by the opposition,” says coalition chairman Miki Zohar • Israeli Restaurants Association CEO: “Shasha-Biton voted according to her conscience.”
A Ra’anana-based organization known as Nevet (“sprout”) currently provides 8,000 Israeli children in 130 schools from 50 municipalities with breakfast each morning during the school week. That amounts to 1.3 million meals a year.