In partnership with Siraj Technologies, Unistream, the Segev Shalom Center, the Ministry of Agricultural & Rural Development, and the United States Embassy, Siraj hosted a meetup with Reem Alaasam from Tel Sheva. Reem is the first doctor of Computer Science in Bedouin society. She met with high school students from Segev Shalom and shared her
Bedouin high school students in the 12th grade visited the offices of dbMotion, which provides an innovative connected healthcare solution that integrates patient information from disparate health information technologies and delivers it to clinicians at the point of care. Students met with engineers who shared their career stories, educational paths, and daily experiences at work.
Al Arab, January 4, 2020 Coverage of Siraj’s January meetup with Microsoft (Arabic). Read here
Musawa Channel, November 11, 2019 Coverage of October meeting with Aisha Bowe (Arabic). Watch here.
Musawa Channel, November 6, 2019 Coverage of our October meetup with Apple executive (Arabic). Watch Here
Jewish Week, May 29, 2019 Coverage about our first Hackathon for Bedouin high school students (English). Read here.
Read about our latest activities in our Spring 2019 Update.
Siraj Technologies Ltd. engineer Khaled Al Okaby was interviewed by Globes Tech. Read the article here.
Read about our recent activity in our Fall 2018 Update.
How many “programs” has the government announced over the years to bring disadvantaged groups — ultra-Orthodox, residents of peripheral areas, Arabs, Bedouins — into the workforce? We’ve lost count, but the answer is “a lot.” Yet Bedouin score far worse than almost every specific ethnic or religious group in Israel; employment rates for Bedouin (60% of Bedouin