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Technology & Engineering
Amir Shinar
Who
Amir Shinar · Technology & Engineering
What
Waze Co-founder
When
2006
Where
Israel
Biography
Amir Shinar is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Waze Co-founder
How & why
Amir Shinar is an Israeli engineer who in 2007 co-founded Waze with Ehud Shabtai and Uri Levine, serving as VP of R&D and helping build the community-driven, crowd-sourced navigation app that Google acquired for about US$1.3 billion in 2013. A veteran of Israel's Unit 8200, he is part of Israel's high-tech ecosystem; public sources describe him as an Israeli engineer but do not detail his personal religious identity.
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Contributions & Sources
Waze Co-founder
2006
Source: Navigation technology
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