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Atlanta VOL. XCII NO. 11
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MARCH 17, 2017 | 19 ADAR 5777
Security Rises With Awareness Mobileye Is Selling For Record Price
Intel announced Monday, March 13, that it will buy Jerusalem-based autonomous driving tech company Mobileye for $15.3 billion in the largest-ever sale of an Israeli high-tech company. The center of Mobileye’s operations will remain in Israel, where Intel plans to build a global development center to handle international activity regarding autonomous vehicles. Mobileye makes sensors and systems so a vehicle knows where it is in relation to its surroundings. The deal, worth about 45 percent more than the company’s market valuation before the announcement, is expected to close in nine months. In November, a delegation touring Israel from Atlanta with Conexx: America Israel Business Connector visited Mobileye’s headquarters and met with the global sales director, Lior Sethon. “It is exciting to see their innovation leadership pay off,” Conexx President Guy Tessler said. “Even more exciting is to learn that they will stay in Israel to lead the upcoming revolution in driving and automotive.” The record for an Israeli tech sale was Cisco’s $5 billion purchase of NDS Group in 2012. Google bought Waze for $1.1 billion in 2013. ■
Retreat To Community
Photos courtesy of Ramah Darom In its 20 years of operation in scenic Clayton, Ramah Darom has developed into much more than the Southeast’s center of Conservative Judaism’s summer camp movement. Its mountain scenery and facilities provide a place for people of all ages to gather and reconnect with their Judaism all year. Read all about it in our special Camps section, Pages 20-25.
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Community interest, education and communication are the keys to protecting Jewish Atlanta at a time of increasingly brazen incidents of anti-Semitism. That was the message from Cathal Lucy, the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta’s director of communitywide security, during a telephone security briefing for Jewish Atlanta on Friday, March 10. Community involvement “is what’s going to make us stronger,” Lucy said. He cited the pilot volunteer security force that worked the Toco Hills Purim Parade on March 5. Young Israel of Toco Hills member Darren Joel organized the group, and Congregation Beth Jacob member Ariel Siegelman, who heads the Draco Group security consulting firm, provided training. Joel’s mother, Lynette, sewed security patches on reflective vests. Federation is considering expanding the concept, Lucy said. Federation’s security committee, which meets quarterly and shares information daily with representatives of every local Jewish organization, is a good model for any group after more than 150 bomb threats have been made against Jewish organizations by phone or email since the start of the year, Lucy said. One of those threats was phoned in to the Marcus Jewish Community Center on Jan. 9; the center’s security director, Karl Hydrick, said the response was smooth because of protocols and training. Federation is constantly working to improve community security, Lucy said. Efforts include a pilot communication program under the auspices of the national Secure Community Network and grant-writing help. Since 2007, Jewish Atlanta has received nearly $3 million in federal security grants for nonprofits, including almost $500,000 last year. “We are working on a number of initiatives around this topic … of increased security,” Federation Chairman Joel Marks said. “Oftentimes you won’t know these are happening, and you won’t see them. Trust and know that they are out there, and they are happening.” ■