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Interesting, from komodia's website: "Barak Weichselbaum founded Komodia, Inc. in 2000, following his military service as a programmer in the IDF’s Intelligenc
by soheil 12y ago
Interesting, from komodia's website:
"Barak Weichselbaum founded Komodia, Inc. in 2000, following his military service as a programmer in the IDF’s Intelligence Core." https://twitter.com/idfspokesperson https://twitter.com/idfspokesperson
- rjaco31 12y agoThis shouldn't be a surprise. As military service is mandatory, virtually every single Israeli company has been founded by someone who did some times, and the most tech savvy people usually end up in the intelligence stuff.
- danielweber 12y agoJoel Spolsky on his time in the army: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080301/how-hard-could-it-be-lessons-i-learned-in-the-army.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080301/how-hard-could-it-be-le...
- madaxe_again 12y agoSurely, Intelligence Corps. "Intelligence Core" is rather self-refuting. As another poster says, this likely means nothing as all Israelis are forced to go through a military brainwashing program.
- rdsnsca 12y agoThe only way to get out of being drafted in Israel is to be pregnant. No way out for a male.
- rmc 12y agoPedantically some (trans) men can get pregnant. Downvotes for pointing out something that has happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Beatie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Beatie
- fny 12y agoNot true. Certain cultural groups (e.g. orthodox, Arabs, Druze) and others are exempted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemption_from_military_service_in_Israel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemption_from_military_service...