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Student coders from 6 nations hack for Holocaust survivors
A virtual Heroes Hackathon in Jerusalem was dedicated to assisting Holocaust survivors and promoting the memory of the Holocaust in innovative ways.
Heroes Hackathon organizers at Synamedia in Jerusalem. Photo by Shay Druyak
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) is marked on April 8 this year.
For three days during Passover March 30 to April 3 – teams of mostly university students channeled their coding skills into 27 proposals presented to the Heroes Hackathon judges, who chose a few to be developed into working products.
“There were no prizes; it was just people volunteering to create products for the benefit of mankind,” says Lion Ben-Ness Vanunu, CEO and founder of Brave Together, the Israeli nonprofit that initiated the annual hackathon last year at multinational corporation Synamedia’s R&D center in Jerusalem.
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February 2, 2021
OCCUPIED-AL-QUDS: Israel and Kosovo established diplomatic ties on Monday, with the Muslim-majority territory recognising al-Quds as the Jewish state’s capital, putting it at odds with the rest of the Islamic world.
Israel has since August normalised ties with four Arab states under a series of deals brokered by former US president Donald Trump, collectively known as the Abraham Accords. But the majority-Muslim parties to those accords the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan have all said their diplomatic missions will be in Tel Aviv, in line with a global consensus against recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital until the Palestinian conflict is resolved.