(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - Ibrahim Sana, 35, set up Sadel Tech, an all-Bedouin Israeli company near Beersheba employing a dozen people that offers expertise in Internet and mobile technologies, in 2013 with an Israeli technology investor. "Israel is a leader in high-tech, and we want a piece of that," Sana said. Sana grew up in the Negev Bedouin town of Lakiya, graduated from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, and received a master's degree at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He worked at Cisco, the American network equipment company, in central Israel. The Israel Ministry of Economy introduced a three-year program in 2015 with the goal of placing 1,000 Arab graduates in the high-tech work force. According to the ministry, 225 people have been placed at leading software companies since the program was started early last year.
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