haifa

In 2010, the couple donated $26 million to found the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Graduate School at the university’s Haifa campus.

I know Intel has a bunch of software written at the Haifa location, and that they take interns.

Ironically much of the damage to Tel Aviv and Haifa was not the direct result of Scud impacts but debris and explosives from Patriot SAMs launched against them.

Many of Israel's major players are in Haifa (where Israel's equivalent of MIT is located) or Jerusalem or other places - Israel is a tiny nation, the commute from Haifa to Tel Aviv can be quicker than taking the subway from Brooklyn to uptown Manhattan.

I dunno, the bakeries here in Haifa that bake their own bread, cakes, burekas, and other things seem pretty successful, actually.

And then there is this...: Male Holocaust survivors have a longer life expectancy compared to those who didn't experience the Holocaust, according to a recent study conducted at the University of Haifa jointly with Leiden University.

At one point I threatened to put a trivial instruction scheduler in gcc, as gcc in those days didn't have any instruction scheduling, the Haifa scheduler didn't come about until the late 90s.

During the last flare up with Hezbollah, my friends in the Haifa suburbs told me that there were some gag orders on some rockets that landed near them to prevent Hezbollah from knowing that they had successful hits.

Mind, about 5,000 NIS/month netto is a pretty reasonable lower-middle class salary for a grad-student in Haifa, but it's not "save up for retirement and kids" money.

Yup, and it ended up with a hell lot of PhDs trading socks in the bazaar in Haifa.

One possible example of the target market is my grandmother, living in a third-floor apartment in Haifa.

Problem being, my bank accounts are on the American East Coast and in Haifa, Israel respectively.