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The Orit Arfa Show: From Start-up Nation to Grown-up Nation Israel

September 3, 2019

Without Israeli hi-tech genius, there would be no Face ID recognition on the iPhone, no “Did you mean…?” function for Google typos…the new Berlin taxi-share service “BerlKönig” also relies on Israeli technology. So far, Israeli companies have been cooperating primarily with the USA. But more attention is being paid to Germany. Can this c to contribute to strengthening German-Israeli friendship?

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Milking Israelis for What They’re Worth

December 9, 2017

“Israel’s not holding onto its citizens, especially new immigrants, because of the low pay and high expenses,” he said, explaining how difficulty in making a living ranks as the No. 1 reason why olim leave.

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Start-up Berlin

November 17, 2016

Modern Tel Aviv is just over 100 years old, and today enjoys a reputation as the center of the Middle East’s “Silicon Valley” made into the stuff of legend thanks to the book Start-up Nation. With Israel and Germany having celebrated the jubilee of their diplomatic relations last year, the new phase of the Berlin-Tel Aviv partnership, and more broadly the German-Israeli relationship, is now ripening in the field of start-ups.

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Akko, mixed Jewish-Arab city, is ‘unpolished diamond’

April 21, 2016

More and more, creative entrepreneurs are realizing how this mixed Jewish-Arab city offers a model of coexistence, at a time when Muslim-Jewish tensions are heightened in response to the stabbings and other terror attacks against Jews in the streets of Israel.

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The Orit Arfa Show: From Start-up Nation to Grown-up Nation Israel

Milking Israelis for What They’re Worth

Start-up Berlin

Akko, mixed Jewish-Arab city, is ‘unpolished diamond’