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Israel Today: Ongoing War ReportIsrael Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2025-12-27 at 03:06HEADLINESUS pushes Gaza technocratic administration planLebanon border gunfire wounds Israeli soldierAlaa Abd el-Fattah lands in UKThe time is now 10:00 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.Good evening. Here is our update on the shifting Middle East landscape, with a focus on Israeli security concerns and the welfare of Jewish communities around the world, and how international policy pillars are shaping the outlook in the days ahead.The Israeli government and its partners continue to navigate the...
2025-12-2706 minIsrael Today: Ongoing War ReportIsrael Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2025-12-26 at 21:04HEADLINESGaza Toll Surges as Hospitals Run DryIndonesia to Join Gaza Stabilization ForceIsrael Recognizes Somaliland IndependenceThe time is now 4:02 PM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.4:01 PM. This is the hour’s briefing on the Middle East and related international developments, with an emphasis on Israeli security considerations and the evolving regional picture. In Gaza, the Israeli military says two Hamas operatives were killed after approaching troops near the ceasefire line, a move it described as an immediate th...
2025-12-2604 minIsrael Today: Ongoing War ReportIsrael Today: Ongoing War Report - Update from 2025-12-02 at 12:08HEADLINESRed Cross tests Gaza materials for hostagesIsrael raids UAWC offices arrests and seizuresKhudari behind Nahal Oz attack killedThe time is now 7:01 AM in New York, I'm Noa Levi and this is the latest Israel Today: Ongoing War Report.Israel is preparing to receive materials from Gaza via the Red Cross, with the Red Cross team set to deliver findings for examination at the National Center of Forensic Medicine. Officials say it remains unclear whether the materials relate to a deceased hostage, as two hostages still unreturned in Gaza are...
2025-12-0207 min
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 25: Why you shouldn't be a managerNoa Tamir (Data Science Manager) and Raz Shuty (Engineering Manager) share with Alaa Sarhan (IC Fullstack-er) what management is about in general and why an IC (Individual Contributor) is nowadays more than ever empowered to not become a manager for the wrong reasons.Sneak-peak reasons from the episode:Manager role is totally different from a lead IC roleICs are paid more than managers Missing short reward cycles, a.k.a "It's not about you anymore"and more in our lovely conversation ;)Recommended reads on the topic:Charity Majors' 17 Reasons NOT To Be A ManagerTanya R...
2020-10-1948 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 24: QA, Automation, and everything in betweenNoa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Rony Lahav about the role of QA and Automation, Why do we need QA people (or why developers shouldn’t be the only testers), Different Test - Component, Integration, System, E2E, Is Manual QA dead?We also touched on:Automation is a software projectwhen should testing/QA stop? / what kind of bugs/edges cases are fine to be ignored or not covered?QA vs. Product Acceptance. How much do they conflict, and do they complement each other?what areas QA covers on top of "functional": performance, accessibility, usability, fa...
2020-08-2449 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 23 - Functional ManagementNoa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan speak with Alexandra Paun (@ale_paun) about the Functional Manager hat that she often wears as part of her current job at King.We learn from Alexandra the many intersections this role has with many, if not all functions and departments in the organization, even extending outside of it to negotiate, collaborate and continuously work with external partners and organization, to bring a great business initiative from conception to life.In this episode we talk about the skill set of a functional manager, the phases a project goes...
2020-07-2750 minTechpoint CharlieQuickpoint Charlie Episode 4: Persona frameworks for a team eventA quick episode where Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) are randomly asking themselves a question and trying to see how they feel about it, in 20 minutes:Have you used any persona framework at work. If so what did you like about it? What was it good for? What’s the downside of using them?Nothing scientific here, more like a quick conversation about it :)Also Available on:Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFMMusic credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed un...
2020-06-2919 min
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 22: Emotions at work (with Phil Bennett)Noa Tamir and Alaa Sarhan meet with our lovely guest Phil Bennett to chat about Emotions at workTriggered by an article Phil Bennett wrote called The Crying Game: It’s OK to Cry at Work!Emotions are unavoidable and normal, but you have to understand the emotional Labour you’re putting on other people. That said, sometimes high emotions are the only way people can express what they really feel. Especially in times of frustration. In the episode:Intro to Phil, and his experience from worki...
2020-06-2256 min2020-06-1819 minTechpoint CharlieQuickpoint Charlie Episode 3: Too Many MeetingsA quick episode where Raz Shuty, Noa Tamir, Alaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) are randomly asking themselves a question and trying to see how they feel about it, in 20 minutes:How do you battle the common "too many meetings" problem? Nothing scientific here, more like a quick conversation about it :)Also Available on:Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFMMusic credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2020-06-1518 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 21: Measuring SuccessAlaa Sarhan (@TweetingAlaa) Fullstack Engineer at Doodle is inviting Armin Bognar Product Advisor and Head of Product at Orderlion and Marc Sandifer Senior Product Manager at Contorion for a conversation to exchange and share their knowledge and experiences around measuring success in product companies; a topic that is or must be near and dear to every Product Manager, Product Designer and pretty much any Individual Contributor in a product team.What success do we want to measure?How do we shift from output-driven to impact-driven process and culture?How can we m...
2020-06-0856 min
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 20: Open Plan Offices: 3 hosts, too many feelingsRaz Shuty, Noa Tamir, and Alaa Sarhan meet to chat about open plan offices, and how working in them makes them feel..We mention in this episode: The (recent) history of open plan officesOur personal experiences working in open plan offices, and other office plansCubicles!HBR's "The Truth about Open Plan Offices"Clear glass roomsHow are we dealing with the circumstances as individual contributors, and as managersLots and lots of feelings!Also Available on:Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn,PlayerFMMusic credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It!
2020-05-2557 min
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 19 (Quickpoint Charlie Episode 2): Talking about ManagersA quick episode where Yael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are randomly asking themselves two questions and trying to see how they feel about them:Can you be a Manager without being an IC in the role? Can managers be friends with the people they manage? Nothing scientific here, more like a quick conversation about it :)Also Available on:Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFMMusic credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2020-05-1828 min
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 18: On Call Engineering: How to do it and Smile with Charity MajorsOn-Call Engineering: How to do it and smileIntro to the topic and Charity MajorsWhat is on-call even? And why does it exist?Our Experiences with on-call?When did we start? How many years, some stories about our past and why we are talking about it How to onboard to on-call?Can it be done and actually be positive? What causes on-call to be negative then?What are the steps that can be done to improve it? What is incident management?Charity Majors is the CTO of Honeycomb.io, @mipsytipy on Twitter, and blogs at https://charity.wtf...
2020-05-1147 min
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 17: Good Manager, Bad ManagerYael Schweiger, Raz Shuty and Noa Tamir are meeting again to talk about management, and specifically what makes a good manager, and how makes a bad one... We mentioned in this episodeWhat is the role of a manager?What sort of manager are we talking about? Project / People / Function / Strategic / Change Management?Can an inexperienced manager be a good manager?Should it be a full-on move? Can it be a combo IC+M role? Does it scale?How to recognize a good managerWhat they doHow you feelHow to recognize a bad managerWhat t...
2020-04-271h 15
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 16: What is the role of Data Scientist?Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and Noa Tamir are talking about what is the role of a data scientist What do people usually get wrong about this role?How can data scientists help, and who?What skills or mindset are important for this role?How do you get to it?What does it mean to be a junior in this role vs senior/experienced? What are the main big differences you learn along the way?We m...
2020-04-131h 06
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 15: What is Product-minded Engineering? What are product-minded developers?Daniel Rüdiger Senior Product Manager at Delivery Hero, Alaa Sarhan Fullstack Engineer at Doodle (yes yes! the doodle you send your friends when you are trying to arrange a movie night at your place) and Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero are having an episode without Yael and Noa, and trying to figure out, what is product-driven development? What is this new trend called Product-Developers?We mentioned in this episodeWhat is product-driven development?The development team is involved in finding the best solutions to solve business pr...
2020-03-301h 03
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 14: Remote Work: past, COVID19, and futureNoa Tamir is our awesome new host, and Raz Shuty met remotely to talk about remote work, but also about this specific occasion of remote work with Covid-19...Trying to understand what is remote work first of all, what are our feelings and experiences and talk about different models (and what it means how it differs from the current reality we are experiencing now) We mentioned in this episodeIntro: What's remote working even?What are the benefits?What are the downsides?Our experiences:fl...
2020-03-2359 min
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 13: Let's make sense of Data ScienceYael Schweiger Senior Product Owner at Careship, Raz Shuty Director Of Engineering at Delivery Hero and our awesome guest Noa Tamir are trying to make sense of the data of data science, what are the different roles? What is the difference between User Research, Market Research, Data Science Researchers, Business Analysts, Business Intelligence, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers?We mentioned in this episodeUser Research, Market Research, Data Science Researchers, Business Analysts, Business Intelligence, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data EngineersSpeed, Rigor, Performance https://towardsdatascience.com/data-sciences-most-misunderstood-hero-2705da366f...
2020-03-1656 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 12: UX ResearchAnne's reading recommendations:Must have -UX Maturity Model: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ux-maturity-stages-1-4/Nice to have - The role of a user researcher: https://medium.com/@stonecrops/the-researchers-journey-leveling-up-as-a-user-researcher-a85cd35b53f5Research Ops community: https://researchops.github.io/www//Dovetail, my research repository: https://dovetailapp.com/Our episode today:Introduction to the episode and AnneIntroduction to the role of UX researchWhat exactly that isWhy even have one, and not just incorporate research into your roleHow is it different t...
2019-10-2158 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 11: One on OnesYael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE finally came back from a long summer break and decided to talk about one on ones on episode 11 - talk about how to do them, why they are there and what the effects they have and generally what it means to have good ones and to have "bad" ones...We mentioned in this episodehttps://www.careship.de/Also Available on:Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFM
2019-09-1651 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 10: What it means for everyone to have design and UX leading the strategy?Yael Schweiger Senior Product Owner Careship and Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE are happy to host Erin Jeavons-Fellows Head of Design (Product) @Delivery Hero Germany and they are talking about where from which point should designers be involved in strategy talks and how to improve our connection to usersWe mentioned in this episodeThe Design Process: Double Diamond https://www.buzzsprout.com/258844/1223315-episode-10-what-it-means-for-everyone-to-have-design-and-ux-leading-the-strategyAlso Available on:Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFM
2019-06-1052 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 9: Processes - How to build processes that would work for you and not you enslaved to them?Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about Processes, how to build them right, what no to do? do overhauls ever work? and why Raz hates them so much :)During the episode we mentioned future episodes that this talk inspired us to talk about:One on Ones How to handle career growthGood Manager, Bad ManagerQuick Talk about an in-depth look of the Journey ModelHow to do Lessons Learned Session A.K.A Postmortem (yuck! bad name!)This was a productive and fun episode, we think i...
2019-05-2656 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 8: Retrospectives - How to do them right and what pitfalls to avoid?Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about retrospectives (and why Raz is SO high on them):We talked about retrospectives, and why they are so good, why value they could bring if they are done right (and of course how to do them "the right way").We talked about how to create action items and what some other tricks to make you retros productive and effective. We mentioned in this episodeHow to retrospective Three popular ways to run a...
2019-05-1351 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 7: Tech Debt and how to get your Product Manager on board?Tech Debt and how to get your Product Manager on board?Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about tech debt:We concluded in the episode that tech debt is a normal thing in every place, and no company or org exists without tech-debt.We mapped types of tech-debts, clarified why and how they happen and discussed strategies of dealing with them + strategies of communication about them We mentioned in this episodeThe J...
2019-04-291h 14
Techpoint CharlieEpisode 6: What is organisational culture anyway? (With Charles)Super interesting talk with Charles about organisational culture and why should organisations careYael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab, Raz Shuty Head of Engineering @Wikimedia DE host a guest for the first time! today we meet Charles Ahmadzadeh Co-founder & Engineering 🤖 @bunch.ai to talk about organisational culture, the science of it and how to understand why it's worth paying attention to it.We mentioned in this episodebunch.ai's Github repo on culture:https://github.com/12grapes/culturewisdomQuick intro to...
2019-04-151h 11Techpoint CharlieEpisode 5: Interviews - What we look for in people when we interviewQuick discussion about interviews and mostly what we look for in people when we interview them.Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about interviews.We mentioned in this episodeThe Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing Also Available on:Spotify, iTunes, Google, Stitcher, TuneIn, PlayerFMMusic credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2019-04-0146 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 4 (Quickpoint Charlie Episode 1): Biases...Quick discussion about biases, What they are and why should we care... Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about biases.Biases: What they are and why should we care... We mentioned in this episode
2019-03-2324 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 3: Hiring - How to build a hiring process and how to make it bias free if possible?Welcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role.This episode contains:Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about hiring.Topic: How to hire right? Processes to support hiring and how to avoid biases?CV ScreeningHiring ProcessHiring BiasesDecision Making ProcessLinks:Value VS Risk when hiringCulture Fit or maybe Culture Benefit?CV, yeah, yeah! CV!...
2019-03-1840 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 2: Refactoring What it is, what it isn’t and how to factor it in your workWelcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role.This episode contains:Yael Schweiger Product Owner @K.Lab and Raz Shuty Engineering Manager @Wikimedia DE meet again to talk about refactoring.Topic: Refactoring: What it is and what it isn't, and how to factor it in your workWhat is refactoring, REALLY?What is refactoring to a Product Owner, to an Engineering Manager and common misperception in the industry?How to plan...
2019-03-0441 minTechpoint CharlieEpisode 1: Should Engineers Write User Stories?Welcome all to our new podcast, we plan to talk about different topics of the day to day tech life from our different perspectives and role.This episode contains:A brief intro about us: Yael Schweiger Product Owner and Raz Shuty Engineering ManagerTopic: Should Engineers write User Stories?Topic 1.1: Who should write the technical tasks?Topic 1.2: Who should write User Stories?Music credits: Dan Lebowitz: Come and Get It! Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2019-02-1852 min