Entrepreneurs want Haredi men, many of whom live in poverty, to have access to the opportunities of Tel Aviv
Last modified on Mon 4 Sep 2023 07.42 BSTntering Bnei Brak, an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood just a few kilometres away from the gleaming towers that testify to Tel Aviv’s prowess as a global hi-tech hub, feels like stepping into a different world.
“People think we’re nuts to do this, but I believe that a spiritual way of life and economic success are not incompatible,” said Yitzik Crombie, Mego’s founder, an entrepreneur who also launched BizMax, a Haredi startup accelerator in Jerusalem, in 2017.. We are building programmes and tools to show the community what is possible.”
Students at the Mego centre undergo psychological tests to make sure they will be able to adapt to a working environment.The Mego bootcamp, jointly funded by the Haredi-focused Kemach Foundation and the Israeli government, enrolled its first 100 students last September, and 150 in the second intake in the spring. Another 150 students are expected to start this October. The programme is already wildly popular: there were 1,000 applications in the first round, and 1,700 in the second.
“We can’t close the knowledge gap in 14 months, obviously, but everyone is a fast learner. It’s the soft things that are harder to impart,” said Tomer Shor, a Mego teacher who co-founded an audio software startup after serving in Unit 8200, the Israeli army’s elite cyber-intelligence arm.
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