During a visit to Intel Israel last week, the chairman of the Science and Technology Committee of the Knesset, MK Uri Maklev, praised the company’s CEO that he employs hundreds of chareidi women throughout the country. Maklev learned that one of the best workers in the factory is the wife of an avreich and the mother of 12.

The tour, which included a visit to the tank overlooking the work in the clean room in the Kiryat Gat factory,

At the beginning of the visit, Maklev said that the chareidi women working at Intel should be helped to come to work there. “The moment you provide their needs, a suitable work environment is the result, and in return, you receive excellent value from them, and this leads to a cycle of opening doors among other companies that see that good.”

Daniel Ben Attar, the plant’s manager in Kiryat Gat, noted that the plant is working to best suit workers from all sectors in Israel, including the chareidi sector. According to him, flexibility of managers can lead to effective integration of each employee from each sector.

In the course of the tour, members of the Science Committee were presented with the “clean room” – for the production of chips, which is active 24 hours a day and is 10 times cleaner than the average operating room in Israel. The cleanliness level is high and only necessary workers enter the hall in the appropriate outer protective clothing exclusively to address problems, with most issues corrected without human contact.

As part of the acquisition of Mobileye, the company is expected to hold a large part of its autonomous automobile activity in Israel in the areas of strategy, sales, development and promotion, in an unprecedented scope in Israel. “Israel has a good chance of being second only to the US in the automotive sector,” said CEO Yaniv Gerti. “In terms of Intel, the autonomous vehicle is expected to be one of the dominant sectors in its activity within a decade, if not the most dominant,” he said.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)