Nael Haddad’s electrical engineering degree from the Haifa Technion promised to open doors to Israel’s growing high-tech sector. But many of those doors remained closed to him because he is an Arab.
“It was 2003, the height of the intifada. It was very tense, very tough times,” Mr Haddad recalls. Jewish technology professionals, especially veterans of military computer units, eschewed coexistence niceties as victims died in suicide bombings. “There was a lot of anti-Arab sentiment. Sometimes I just wanted to give up.”
But Mr Haddad persisted. “I believe in coexistence and I believe that if it’s challenging, it’s interesting. I felt this was the way I could make an impact.”
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