A Google-Backed Accelerator In Helping Entrepreneurs In Gaza

Less than 80 kilometres from the thriving tech hub of Tel Aviv, startup founders are having a tougher time. In the Gaza Strip, decades of conflict and grinding poverty make reliable electricity and office space tough to come by. Nonetheless, where there are computers and smartphones, there are young people with ideas for apps, says Iliana Montauk , and those she’s met in Gaza over the past two years compare favourably with people at Harvard and in Silicon Valley…