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The Woman2Woman program set up by graduates of the Israeli army’s elite 8200 tech unit is now getting ready to train women for research and development positions in the nation’s booming tech industry.
The 8200 Alumni Association’s Woman2Woman program was set up six years ago with the aim of promoting women in the workforce. The program has won a tender issued by the Israel Innovation Authority, the national body in charge of setting out the nation’s tech policies and fostering the tech ecosystem, to run a project that would train women for development positions, such as software programming, financial technologies or biotechnology research, through the coming year, and help them integrate into the industry.