Well well well, you probably never thought that I would actually be back. But as of now I am sitting at my desk at Mobileye® in Jerusalem finishing up my first full week at work. It’s actually happened, I’m in J-town living it up. Plus, being that it’s Thursday (the Israeli Friday) I’m in an especially good mood. My boy from home Ephraim “DJ F-Rhyme” Shapiro gets in today and will be joining my other roomate Yossi Weinberg, a friend Michael Ingber and I for what should be an absolutely epic night. Of course before this, the Tamid crew has a very special evening with Benchmark Capital’s Elie Wurtman at the fabulous Mamila hotel. I’m looking forward to telling you about all of this excitement and more during next week’s blog post (the blog posts will occur every thursday from now on). In the meantime, though, let’s get everyone caught up on what’s been going on since I got here.
I arrived on Tuesday afternoon to a beautiful new apartment in Nachlaot - props to my boy Yossi for the hardwork apartment hunting. The two level pad is about a 37 second walk (I’ve timed it) from Macheneh Yehudah, the Israeli Market or shook, and a five minute walk from Ben Yehudah – in other words unREAL location. After enjoying a little walk around the area I met up with Tamid fellows Ally Berman and Nate Gilson and michiganer Naomi Scheinerman for a chill sesh and tour around Jerusalem. Later that night, Yossi came back from his Magen David Adom training for a late night Ben Yehudah binge. Overall, nice orientation to J-town.
Wednesday was my first day of work, so I have now been at Mobileye for a little over a week. For the first couple days my coordinator Isaac Litman, CEO of Mobileye Products, was abroad on business, so I had an oppurtunity to meet everyone around the office, learn about their work and about the company in general, and even test out some of the hardware. Everyone at the office is really nice, especially the three people in the marketing office where I’ll be working this summer. For those first few days, they gave me countless presentations and pointers to help fully understand the company before I would be taking on real work.
On Monday, Isaac returned from his trip and I recieved my first assignment, which I have been working on all week. My assigment is essentially to produce the most recent update of what MobilEye calls their “Effectiveness Report”. The company’s newest product, called the Mobileye C2-270™, boasts four major functions, Forward Collision Warning (FCW), Lane Departure Warning (LDW), Headway Monitoring and Control (HMC), and Pedestrian Detection (PD). Each year, they put out a report that assesses how effective the technology in their product is based upon statistics about different types of automotive crashes and features of the product. Right now I am pouring through 160 page PDF documents published by everyone from OECD to Daimler-Benz and everything in between. The first draft of the project is due Wednesday, so I’ll have an update next post.
Other highlights from the week included an awesome first thursday night out with my friend Michael (working at Weitzman in Rehovot), Nate, Yossi, Ally, and Naomi, friday lunch with Michael and two our our high school friends currently studying in yeshiva, shopping and dinner in the shook, and joining a gym. Of course, I also had a great shabbas with the Tamid crew – first at a wonderful friday night dinner with Vringo CEO Jon Medved and family at their absolutely stunning home in Baca, then a chill sesh on my balcony followed by a small outing between me and Tamid fellows Kevin Zussman and Idan Goldbroom, and capped off with a day in the old city on Shabbas.
Great to be back with you and thanks for following the blog. Again, if anyone has any advice on anything that I should be doing while in Israel, I’ve got exactly 7 weeks left here, so please just comment them right on the blog and I’ll get busy. I said last time that anyone who gave me a good suggestion would get a shout out on the blog so, as promised, David Braid, respect for an unreal shwarma selection in Moshiko (also the shwarma of choice by Tamid All-Stars Sasha Gribov and Eitan Ingall), and to my boy Joel Matthew “Chaim” “Faan” Frenkel for the one and the only burgers bar.
Until next time….
p.s. Landon Donovan, wowwwwwww, USA! USA! USA!
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