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Olaf Sakkers

Jan 21, 2016, 5:01 PM

Exploited Foxconn workers make six times more than IDF conscripts and commit suicide at a 10 times lower rate

In December 2014, the BBC conducted an undercover investigation of working conditions in factories in Apple’s supply chain. Here are some highlights: Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at the Pegatron factories on the outskirts of...

Apr 16, 2015, 4:43 PM

Why Holocaust Remembrance Day feels difficult and makes me angry

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel. This day feels difficult and it makes me angry. Let me explain: The family that I visited over Shabbat had an elderly couple as visitors during the afternoon. One of them is a holocaust...

Dec 4, 2012, 3:55 PM

Building in a state of hope

It’s perhaps the most private moment of each week for me: the start of kabbalat shabbat, when I try to let go of the week's stresses and appreciate all that is good in my life, when I try and...

About Me

Olaf Sakkers is a graduate of Princeton University. He grew up in South Africa, but has also lived in Germany, Japan and the USA. He made aliyah after graduation in 2011 and after completing his IDF service in the Foreign Relations Branch, he now works for a venture fund investing in autonomous vehicle technologies.