2016年07月30日

数少ない超正統派のユダヤ人がイスラエルのIT産業で成功している。 なぜこの超正統派の企業立ち上げが不足しているのか?

Few ultra-Orthodox Jews make it in Israel’s tech industry
Why Haredi startups are in short supply
Jul 20th 2016 | Middle East and Africa

ultra-Orthodox:超正統派、ハレーディー(ム)(חֲרֵדִים Haredi または Charedi Judaism, ultra- Orthodox Judaism)とは、ユダヤ教の宗派の一部。ユダヤ教正統派の中でも、特に東部ヨーロッパに由来する伝統的な形態とその人々に対する通俗的な呼称。
Haredi:上に同じ
make it in:において成功する

数少ない超正統派のユダヤ人がイスラエルのIT産業で成功している。
なぜこの超正統派の企業立ち上げが不足しているのか?

A GROUP of ultra-Orthodox (or Haredi) Jews arriving at a meeting recently at Facebook’s Israeli headquarters were initially barred from entering by the security guard. “He couldn’t believe we actually had a business reason for being there,” said one participant. “He thought we wanted to hold a demonstration”. 

hold a demonstration:デモをやる



The altercation was a sign of how rare it is to see black-garbed Haredi Israelis in the shining development centres of the startup nation. Some 300,000 people, or about 8% of the Israeli workforce, are employed in the country’s burgeoning high-tech industry. The industry has sucked in talent so quickly that it is now constrained by a shortage of qualified engineers and programmers and is looking abroad. Yet a large and almost untapped pool of talent lies close to home. Only 2% of Israel’s tech employees are ultra-Orthodox Jews, although the community makes up nearly 10% of the population (similarly just 3% of tech employees are Arab, despite making up about 20% of the total). And of those ultra-Orthodox Jews who are employed by tech companies, about two-thirds are women who work mainly in call centres for low pay. 

altercation:口論
black-garbed:黒い服を着た
burgeoning:急成長の
constrained:制約される
close to home:手近なところに

The main reason there are so few Haredi techies is because most ultra-Orthodox men have only a very rudimentary education in mathematics and English. Although they spend years in a yeshiva, a religious seminary, most of their time goes on studying the Torah. Those few yeshiva graduates who do have the right skills to get tech jobs still struggle to hear about them or get recommended for jobs because they are not plugged into the networks of developers and entrepreneurs who often know one another from their days in the army or university, two institutions that have very few Haredis. Another impediment is that many senior rabbis have forbidden their followers from having internet in their homes or owning smartphones because of the temptations to sin that they may be exposed to. 

rudimentary:初歩的な
seminary:神学校
impediment:障害
rabbis:神父

The barriers are highest for those who want to fulfil the Israeli dream of founding their own startup company. “Even when I succeeded in getting a meeting with potential investors, they looked at me as if I was an alien,” says Moshe Friedman, who at the age of thirty, left his yeshiva and, with friends, developed an app to simplify video-editing. After seeing how tough it was for religious Jews to get a foothold in the tech industry, he went on to set up Kamatech, a company working to place Haredi employees with some of the largest tech firms in Israel, and to create a network for entrepreneurs from the community. 

So far he has connected eight Haredi startups with established tech firms. The startups have raised more than $6m in initial investments and employ seventy people. That might sound like an impressive start, but when compared to the $4.5 billion raised by Israeli startups in 2015, it shows how much ground Haredi entrepreneurs still have to make up. 

ground:基礎を教え込む

土曜日。ユダヤ人の超正統派はわずかしかIT産業にいない。彼らは神学を勉強するがこうした領域に関心を持っていない。しかしながら、今イスラエルはIT産業の人材が不足している。という記事だ。

昨日は井川さんの昼食会に行った。神楽坂のいいお店だった。会費は3500円だったが、それなりの価値はあった。最近は引越しの整理で忙しく、仕事があまりできない。今日は1日、海野塾だ。ではまた明日。

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