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The entrance to Mobileye’s campus in Jerusalem’s Har Hotzvim technology park. “The atmosphere at Mobileye is much more religious than at companies in Tel Aviv,” one employee says.Credit: Itay Cohen. Photo editing: Shumisat Rasulaeva
Jerusalem is struggling to retain its secular population, and Mobileye illustrates the scale of the challenge: The flagship of the city’s tech sector is struggling to retain employees, many of whom prefer to work in central Israel
Uriel Schachter
01:17 PM • August 08 2026 IDT
Eyal, 31, has worked at Mobileye for seven years, the last three as a software engineering team lead. Throughout that time, he worked at the company’s main campus in Har Hotzvim, Jerusalem. Only a few months ago, he attended his first meeting at Mobileye’s Tel Aviv offices
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