Mutual trust is the motor running this Arab-Jewish startup
Mutual trust is the motor running this Arab-Jewish startup
Two physics PhDs from divergent backgrounds channeled their professional and personal friendship into a high-tech venture.
Teramount cofounders CEO Hesham Taha, left, and CTO Avi Israel. Photo courtesy of Teramount
It’s not unusual to find the Jews and Arabs of Jerusalem side by side in stores, buses and trains, working together in hospitals and studying together in institutions of higher education.
It is quite unusual, however, to find a Jewish and Arab duo who are close friends and startup cofounders.
That’s what makes Hesham Taha and Avi Israel’s story so intriguing – and so hopeful for a shared future in this city of 936,000 people, 62 percent of whom are Jewish and 38% Arab.
Buffalo woman battling the opioid epidemic from her car
Bringing training and kits to those in need
As the opioid epidemic worsens in WNY, one woman is trying to reverse the trend by taking services directly to those in need.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â You ll see the stickers on her car or hear her coming down the street, Rashone Scott-Williams makes her presence known in Buffalo. No one raises their hand to say I need help, so what we do is try to meet a person where theyâre at,â said Scott-Williams, Founder and CEO of Mobile Overdose Prevention Services (OPS).
Angered by funds sweep, advocates eye lock box legislation By Susan Arbetter City of Albany PUBLISHED 4:47 PM ET Apr. 20, 2021 PUBLISHED 4:47 PM EDT Apr. 20, 2021
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“I feel like Michael’s death doesn’t mean anything to this governor,” he told
Capital Tonight when asked for his reaction to the decision by Andrew Cuomo and the legislature to sweep most of an early tranche of opioid settlement funding into the general fund.
Avi’s son, Michael, took his own life after an eight-year ordeal during which he was diagnosed with an aggressive and painful strain of Crohn’s Disease. After several surgeries, multiple doctors began prescribing opioids for Michael, and he became addicted. When help was not available to him, he took his own life.
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