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Integrating the ultra-Orthodox into premium high-tech jobs Culturally sensitive programs train women and men in the religious sector to fill needs in companies such as Apple, Check Point, Facebook, XM Cyber. Ultra-Orthodox seminary students in an Adva software engineering training course. Photo courtesy of Start-Up Velocity “We’re looking at jobs in bigger companies where my friends wouldn’t even look.”  When Israeli ultra-Orthodox girls like Zahava finish high school, they enter a two-year seminary combining Judaic studies with career preparation. Zahava, now a 21-year-old newlywed...

Shoshanna Solomon is The Times of Israel's Startups and Business reporter Ultra-orthodox young women who are part of the Adva program that aims to train them with skills for the high-tech sector (Courtesy) The Times of Israel first wrote about Zahava a year ago, the eldest daughter of a Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox family, when she was allowed to take a break from her household chores, including babysitting, dishwashing and grocery shopping, to study coding, calculus and math in the hope of finding a high-paying tech job. Zahava, now 21, was part of the Adva pilot project, whose first group of Ha...