Apple CEO Tim Cook & Israel President Reuven Rivlin
Apple CEO Tim Cook is continuing his international tour this week with a stop in Israel, The Marker reports. The publication reports that Cook arrived in Israel today and has since met with President Reuven Rivlin (seen above) at his home in Jerusalem; Cook is also expected to meet with former President Shimon Peres during the trip. Alongside Cook for the trip, notably, is Johny Srugi, Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Technologies, a graduate of Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology…
Rumors surfaced a couple weeks ago that the Apple CEO planned a visit to Israel sometime this month, in part to tour a new set of Apple offices opening in Herzliya, Israel. Based on the size of the office space, Apple is expected to staff between 600 and 1,200 employees in the new buildings.
Cook’s visit to Israel follows a stop in Germany at the beginning of the week as the Apple chief visited the newsroom of the famous German newspaper BILD with its editors-in-chief. Cook also met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to discuss privacy and security issues. Earlier in the week Cook shared a photo from the glass maker in Augsburg for Apple’s Campus 2 project.
Earlier this week, Apple announced plans for a $1.9 billion investment for two of the world’s largest clean energy data centers planned for Europe alongside Cook’s international tour.
Apple VP of Hardware Technology Johnny Srugi & Israel President Reuven Rivlin
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welcome to the startup nation :-)
I really dig his hands on nature and how involved he is in many aspects of Apple around the world.
Always disappointing to see Apple, and Cook in particular, doing business with rogue states. Israel should be an international pariah state, akin to South Africa during the apartheid era.
@Inaba-kun. Israel? Apartheid? Really? Oh you mean like this?: http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.uk/p/eoz-posters-for-apartheid-week.html#.VO4OgUI79tc
Wow! I’m so happy you out this link so I can use it from now on!
What an entirely unbiased site you linked to, which in no way has an extremist agenda which it pushes through cherry picking outliers which defy the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary.
Try talking to Palestinians who lost their homes when Israel stole their land to build illegal settlements, or Palestinians whose farms were demolished or burnt to the ground by Israelis, or perhaps the residents of Gaza whose children were blown to pieces during the mass communal punishment and genocide which flattened Gaza recently. Israel is the very definition of a rogue, terrorist state, one in which dozens of UN rulings are ignored, one in which an entire race of people is regularly terrorised, attacked, and brutalised, and one in which a giant wall separates two races.
To defend Israel is to defend the indefensible.
@inaba-kun deflect much? You need to tell your Hamas buddies to quit lobbing RPG’s and missiles at Israel. You poke the bear enough and you get bit. I’m sorry for all the innocent people affected by Israelis retaliation, but to say Israel is just killing Palestinians indiscriminatly is bull$hit.
Somehow I can’t get behind a Palestinian Apartheid state which continually postpones elections, jails dissenters, fails to act on honor killings and promotes the ethnic cleansing of Jews from the west bank and Jerusalem just because they aren’t Arabs or Muslims. And that’s just the Palestinian Authority – when you read the Hamas Charter you find that they are even worse.
95% of the Palestinian population lives in Areas A and B or in Gaza and under Palestinian civilian governance. Only 5% of the population lives in Area C where the settlements are. Few if any Arabs have been “displaced” from their homes – that’s a myth. Most settlements were build on previously vacant land and are leased from the State. Nor are Palestinians a “race” – for the Israelis this is entirely a political struggle.
What Apple is about is bringing great people and great technology together. Their local VP, as the article states, is an Arab graduate of the Technion. inaba-kun should be ashamed to flaunt his political propaganda and divisiveness into a technical forum.
Think different. Not like a propagandist.
Tell that to Johnny Srouji, an Arab who grew up in Israel, and studied in the Technion. He is the one to blame for bringing Apple back to invest in Israel. He probably wasn’t told that he lived in an Apartheid state!
Shame on Apple.
… for not investing in Israel sooner.
Google Chairman: Israel is transforming the world…
http://www.innovationendeavors.com/blog/2014/11/18/the-next-google-could-come-from-israel
Israel, bastion of democracy, esp. for Arabs esp. Arab women…
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-05/israeli-arabs-flourish-at-technion
Forbes: 12 Israeli Tech Companies Changing Lives of the Disabled…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackmiller/2015/01/20/12-israeli-technologies-changing-the-lives-of-the-disabled-in-2015/
Tim needs to steer clear of the topics of pork, pigs, and shrimp.
If there’s anyone that could make them kosher, it would be Tim.
Israel is a country of immense integrity & technological advancement. For this reason, Israel’s Technion was chosen to partner with Cornel Univ. for a massive engineering university in NY…
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-12-19/cornell-university-said-to-be-chosen-by-new-york-for-engineering-campus
Verizon has contributed $50M to be associated with Israel’s Technion…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2015/02/02/50-million-for-naming-rights-to-new-yorks-mega-tech-campus/
AOL wants to be associated, too…
http://corp.aol.com/2014/11/12/aol-cornell-tech-and-city-economic-development-officials-launch/
Yale B School, too…
http://fortune.com/2014/12/17/yale-business-school/
Never understood the concept and hierarchy of a president AND a prime minister in the same country.
The Prime Minister takes care of the running of the country, has a cabinet and decides budgetary issues as well as foreign and domestic policy. The President, much like a monarch in England, has very few duties other than ceremonial. The President appoints the Prime Minister and is often seen merely as a figurehead. They’re often esteemed characters within society and are someone to look up to. For instance Shimon Peres, the former President, was viewed as a dove and an innovator within Israeli society. He had much better relations with the West than Netanyahu who antagonised a lot of allies. Because of this Peres was often used for diplomatic purposes because he got on so well with other leaders.
sad seeing Apple doing buisness with a country that kills innocents and children
Must be nice to be “chosen”.
except Israel has one of the best (if not the best) militant to civ casualty ratio in the world, despite fighting against an enemy that uses women and children in the battlefield. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
Facts speak stronger than propaganda.
this is data which is dated back to 2005 not valid information
…well, he’s american. Birds of a feather….
Reuven rivlin is the cousin of my grandpa.
Besides that the brother in low of a friend of mine also met with tim, he works in yad vashem