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Integrating the ultra-Orthodox into premium high-tech jobs
Culturally sensitive programs train women and men in the religious sector to fill needs in companies such as Apple, Check Point, Facebook, XM Cyber.
Ultra-Orthodox seminary students in an Adva software engineering training course. Photo courtesy of Start-Up Velocity
“We’re looking at jobs in bigger companies where my friends wouldn’t even look.”
When Israeli ultra-Orthodox girls like Zahava finish high school, they enter a two-year seminary combining Judaic studies with career preparation.
Zahava, now a 21-year-old newlywed, chose a seminary that teaches computer programming. “I love math and logic,” she tells ISRAEL21c.