1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (531+ words) Born and raised in Philadelphia, earned a B. A. in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University in 1980, followed by an M. A. in Political Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Harriet has worked in the non-profit world throughout her career. She…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (369+ words) Google, Meta, Unity, and Moloco spend their days trying to take advertising dollars away from each other. This week they did something that makes no competitive sense: they collectively wired more than $1 billion into a single Israeli company, at a…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (405+ words) From Israblog to the Battlefield: Israel's Fiber Optic Revolution. As Israel now faces drones connected by fiber-optic cables " a technology capable of challenging even the "Startup Nation" " I was reminded of something I wrote nearly 20 years ago. In June 2006, I…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (52+ words) Whenever my friends inside Iran could reach an internet connection, our conversation was something like this: Me: Are you still alive? Them: Yes, but our city is being bombed right now. Me: Oh, you don't have any potential targets in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (497+ words) It usually isn't. After several years building these systems for Israeli SMBs, the pattern I see is that the expensive mistakes are almost never in the build itself. They are in the buying decision " the questions that were not asked…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1218+ words) So this past week, I was in a supermarket, and I went to the front desk because I could not find the Cape Cod chips in the 100-calorie bag. I am trying to eat healthily. " She was looking down at…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (42+ words) The Times of Israel - Follow You will receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page You will no longer receive email alerts from this author. Manage alert preferences on your profile page...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (472+ words) If you run a small business in Israel and your customers are still emailing you, you are already behind. This is not a style preference. It is a shift in the plumbing of how Israelis communicate " and the numbers from…...

2+ mon, 9+ hour ago  (1011+ words) The next front in the war over Israel is not on a battlefield, a campus, or even social media. It is inside the machines increasingly trusted to explain the world to us. AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), is fast…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (189+ words) Realizing it was time He lowered His face To Abraham's ear And whispered A promise To the worried father There will be More children Than you can count. As many, I swear, As the sand By the sea But Abraham…...