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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

crowdsourcing

A student engages with 'Every Name Counts' at the Elisabeth-Knipping-Schule in Kassel, Germany. (Johanna Gross)
July 22, 2020, 3:34 am
You can help Nazi victims’ families learn their fates in online archive project
Thousands answer crowdsourcing call to assist Germany’s Arolsen Archives in making 26 million newly digitized historical documents searchable by anyone online
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Medical staff at the coronavirus unit, in Ichilov hospital, Tel Aviv, May 4, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
May 11, 2020, 2:37 pm
Global survey shows link between COVID-19 patients and taste, smell loss
Findings could help distinguish coronavirus patients from those with colds or flu, researchers say
By Shoshanna Solomon
Illustrative: The Moovit app running on a phone. (Itamar Sharon)
February 27, 2020, 9:51 am
Israel-founded urban transport app Moovit reaches its 100th country
Company now services 720 million users in over 3,100 cities, appoints new VP of business development
By Luke Tress
Rachel Stomel
May 28, 2017, 8:03 pm
Rachel Stomel
She’s no laity
Titles Orthodox women clergy CAN use (well, maybe), since the one concocted to avoid ‘rabbi’ is out
Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (Courtesy)
February 6, 2017, 11:31 pm
Charity says no taker for cash meant to free Israeli held in Arab country
ZAKA may return $120,000 after no local officials available to accept restitution money, secure release of Ben Hassin, 21, held on murder charges since 2015
By ToI Staff
Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (Courtesy)
January 26, 2017, 5:44 pm
Trial delayed for Israeli held in Arab country after cash raised
Ben Hassin, who fought IS as a volunteer, jailed for killing cabbie who threatened him; ‘blood money’ could spare his life
By ToI Staff
Wrapping grape leaves with Galileat, the Galilean cooking workshop experience that is embarking on a crowdsourcing-funded cookbook (Courtesy Galileat)
January 25, 2017, 7:11 pm
Out of the north, a crowdsourced cookbook rises
Food guide Paul Nirens sets out to publish ‘The Galilean Kitchen,’ bringing the region’s unique cooking to foodies worldwide
By Jessica Steinberg
Israeli national Ben Hassin, who was jailed for killing a taxi driver in an unnamed Arab country, where he went to fight Islamic State. (courtesy)
January 25, 2017, 6:28 pm
Over $100,000 raised to free Israeli imprisoned in Arab country
ZAKA-led drive secures most of funds needed to help release Ben Hassin, jailed for killing cabbie while volunteering to fight IS
By ToI Staff
Image of the USA.GOV website that seeks feedback on how to make the passport issuing process easier using Israel's Insights.US decison making app (Courtesy)
January 23, 2017, 4:27 pm
Israel tech helps US speed up passport procedures
Insights.US’s crowd-consulting tool lets executives make better decisions by soliciting opinions from their target communities
By Shoshanna Solomon
Elor Azaria, the IDF soldier who shot a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron on March 24, 2016, seen at a court hearing at the Jaffa Military Court, June 16, 2016. (Flash90)
July 11, 2016, 12:51 am
Online fundraiser for Hebron soldier raises over NIS 300,000
Campaign aims to fund a newly formed organization set to provide legal assistance to Elor Azaria, others ‘caught in similar situations’
By ToI Staff
An art student from the University of Helwan paints the Facebook logo on a mural commemorating the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo, Egypt, March 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Manoocher Deghati, File)
April 24, 2016, 11:11 am
Egypt ‘clickfunding’ makes mouse jockeys into do-gooders
Frenchmen in Cairo attempt to revolutionize world of philanthropy by raising funds for microprojects through clickable social networking campaigns
By Tony Gamal-Gabriel
Peace Now activists protest an NGO funding bill proposed by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked outside her residence in Tel Aviv, December 26, 2015. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 25, 2016, 5:44 am
From ‘labeling’ NGOs to police pat-downs to Shabbat bans, Knesset bills make waves
With the justice minister’s contentious bill up for a first vote, a look at the six most controversial proposals being debated in the House, and the concerns raised by their opponents
By Marissa Newman
A Spaceek reflector (Courtesy)
December 9, 2015, 5:36 pm
‘Waze of parking’ app guides drivers to a free space
Spaceek’s novel road reflectors provide real-time curbside information to drivers who would otherwise circle the block
By David Shamah
Participants, judges, and company executives at the finals of the Hyundai Connected Car Hackathon, November 17, 2015 (Sivan Faraj)
December 2, 2015, 7:11 pm
Israeli app’s promise: Never hit a red light again
Green Wave, which cracks the code of timed stoplights, was one of four winners in Hyundai’s first-ever connected car app hackathon
By David Shamah
Sleeping soundly (Pixabay)
November 17, 2015, 7:20 pm
Israeli tech cracks ‘sleep DNA’ to beat insomnia
The reason you’re not sleeping well could have more to do with your personality than your pillow, according to SleepASAP
By David Shamah
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