November 12, 2017

Ultra-Orthodox Israeli women surge as tech entrepreneurs

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/ultraorthodox_women_surge_as_tech_entrepreneurs.html

November 12, 2017

Ultra-Orthodox women surge as tech entrepreneurs

One of the social, political, and economic challenges facing Israel is how to integrate its large population of pious, strictly observant Jews (called the haredi or ultra-orthodox). Israel's original government policy â€“ to show respect for religious Jews by exempting them from military service and offering them support for their large families â€“ unfortunately had many unintended negative consequences. As the population of religious Jews has skyrocketed, it has become untenable. The growing resentment among secular families for the extra burdens imposed on them were frustrating, with no end in sight. Israeli society was in a political stalemate.

The answer is not as impossible as it once seemed. It comes not from government policy, but entirely from private initiative from the haredi themselves. The answer is entrepreneurship, in which ultra-Orthodox women are taking the lead, founding startups tailored to meet their own needs as mothers of large families. There are more ultra-Orthodox women in hi tech than secular women. In the last five years, the number of religious female entrepreneurs in hi tech has jumped from five to over four hundred.

Read it all at American Thinker.

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