Zoom CEO Eric Yuan unveiled an ambitious vision for the future of work, centered around the integration of AI avatars and digital twins into Zoom's platform. He envisions a future where "digital twins" and AI avatars could attend meetings, respond to emails, and handle phone calls for us.

Yuan advocated for a four-day workweek with AI handling Zoom meetings and other work tasks, in an interview with The Verge published Monday.

He proposes training custom large language models (LLMs) for individuals instead of using a generic one, and predicts a future where people have their own personalized LLMs for decision-making.

Zoom is aiming to challenge market leaders like Microsoft and Google by expanding beyond video calls to explore AI-driven capabilities, including AI avatars to automate various work-related decisions and tasks.

Yuan emphasized the importance of maintaining genuine human connections and in-person interactions, despite the efficiency of AI in handling routine tasks.

Zoom's digital twin technology may evolve to offer immersive virtual experiences in digital environments, and users could have multiple versions of their digital twin tailored to different roles.

Zoom recently introduced productivity-focused AI Companion features to Workplace, with over 700,000 accounts utilizing these capabilities.

Zoom has been actively distributing XR services since the pandemic era, collaborating with Microsoft Teams and Meta for cross-platform communication, and recently debuted the Vision Pro version of Zoom on Apple devices to enhance connectivity and collaboration for distributed teams.

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A 44-year-old Michigan man named Corey Harris joined a Zoom court hearing discussing his license renewal while driving his car, leading to the revocation of his bond and a bench warrant for his arrest.

The judge noticed Harris was in motion and asked if he was behind the wheel, prompting the bond revocation and jail sentence, despite Harris' attorney's attempts to explain the situation.

Harris spent two days in jail due to the incident, and he was embarrassed as the public wrongly ridiculed him. The oversight regarding his license suspension being rescinded in January 2022 due to a clerical error has yet to be rectified in state records.

The incident was widely mocked on the internet, and advice was given to Harris to avoid driving and dress appropriately for future hearings.

Harris claimed that his license suspension order had been rescinded in January 2022 due to a clerical error, but this oversight has not been corrected in state records. The process to reinstate a driver's license in Michigan can be complicated.

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Two Jewish friends from Berlin who believed that each other had been killed during World War II and the Holocaust recently reunited with the help of the USC Shoah Foundation.

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After Ana María Wahrenberg and Betty Grebenschikoff said goodbye to each other in a German school year in May 1939, Wahrenberg's family fled to Chile, while Grebenschikoff traveled to the United States via Shanghai. This past fall, they saw each other again via Zoom for the first time in 82 years.

"In her [USC Shoah Foundation] testimony, Betty said she had been actively searching for her long-lost friend for her entire life; she even specifically mentions Ana María's name in the hopes that this will help her find her best childhood friend," said Rachael Cerrotti, who works as a creative producer for the USC Shoah Foundation, which has more than 55,000 video testimonies from Holocaust survivors and witnesses, reported the Times of Israel.

After hearing Wahrenberg speak at a virtual Kristallnacht event, Holocaust testimony indexer Ita Gordon remembered Grebenschikoff's testimony given to the foundation 24 years ago and made the connection between the two women. Cerrotti said "what followed was a series of phone calls" to put the two women back in touch.

"This has been a great gift, which, at this point in my life, I am boundlessly grateful for," declared Wahrenberg of reuniting with her childhood friend in November.

"Betty and I have had several encounters by WhatsApp and Zoom. We [now] talk every Sunday for about an hour … we will never catch up! Our conversations are great; we still have common interests and, of course, many, many memories that we still share," she said. "As soon as we get out of this horrible pandemic, we will try to get together in some corner of the world."

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The recently-ended 2020 saw Israelis home internet consumption jump 23% compared to 2019, according to a new report released by the Pelephone, Bezeq, and Yes communications providers.

The data from the report also showed a 36% rise in home Internet use during the Passover holiday; a 41% rise the week of Rosh Hashana (when Israel declared a second nationwide lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus); and a 40% spike during the week of Sukkot.

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On average, 2020 saw a 20% rise in internet use via smartphones, with Israelis consuming 2 more gigabytes worth of data each month than they did in 2019. The report said that until October 2020, each month of this past year saw Pelephone customers' smartphone internet usage break records.

In 2020, Israelis were also spending more time using their phones to hold actual conversations – 11% more voice calls took place in 2020 than in 2019. The increase in voice calls picked up early in 2020 when the COVID pandemic first hit Israel, and peaked during the High Holidays and the second lockdown, during which time Israelis spent 20% more time talking on the phone than they did at the same time in 2019.

At least some of the internet time was devoted to shopping, with many Israelis transitioning to online food orders instead of visiting supermarkets. Online orders with the country's major supermarket chains jumped by an average 20% throughout 2020, compared to 2019. When the first lockdown was declared in March 2020, online grocery shopping doubled. Even after businesses reopened, online grocery purchases were still up by 15% in 2020 compared to the previous year.

In addition to stocking the refrigerator through online orders, Israelis also upped their use of food delivery apps, which increased 92% in 2020 compared to 2019. In the last few weeks of August, use of food delivery apps grew by 230% compared to the previous year.

Appliance retailers also saw online customer traffic increase, with 20% more hits on their websites in 2020 than in 2019. The first major jump in this shopping sector came as Passover approached, bringing a 33% increase in customer traffic on appliance and electrical retailers' sites. Visits to these sites spiked again in November, which saw an increase of 50% in customer traffic.

While Israelis were busy shopping, they were buying less from international websites due to shipping delays caused by the COVID pandemic. Orders from international sites dropped by 11% in 2020. However, orders from international sellers picked up again in late November as Israelis took advantage of Black Friday deals.

Shopping wasn't the only thing Israelis were doing on line. Hungry for information about COVID, unemployment benefits, and related issues caused traffic on government ministry and healthcare websites to jump by 15% in comparison to 2019.

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Online dating took a hit in 2020, with usage of dating sites down 7% by May 2020 and down by 15% during the first two lockdowns. When the lockdown restrictions were eased, dating sites saw an uptick in use.

While dating was on hold, social media sites were busier than ever. Facebook saw a 15% increase in use, as did the Whatsapp messaging app. Twitter use jumped by 32% compared to 2020.

Interestingly, Israelis watched only 5% more television in 2020 than in 2019.

Dror Bahat, head of products, services, and digital marketing at Pelephone, Yes, and Bezeq International, said that "The year of COVID sent Israelis burrowing deep at home. We were stuck for various screens, we spent more time surfing, we talked more. Video chats and Zoom became a part of our daily routines.

"We discovered food delivery apps and spent a lot less time outside and on the roads. We all hope that in 2021 COVID will disappear from our lives forever, but it's already clear that its influence on our routines, the way in which we consume media and use the internet and various media outlets is here to stay," Bahat said.

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Could the Education Ministry's distance learning system be compromised in a way that could place the young students using it in harm's way? Some parents argue that is, indeed, the case.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, much of the Israeli educational system has transitioned to online learning. The Education Ministry has created special email addresses for every student in Israel to participate in online classes broadcast via the Zoom app, and the students also use this address to receive various messages, assignments, and more.

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Some parents have expressed concerns about whether this kind of system keeps their children's personal information secure. For example, all students' emails have automatically been added to the school district's mailing list, meaning that any person who can access the system can also access the information of all the other students in the district. An individual with access to the system can therefore see the first and last names of the students and their email addresses, and will thus be able to message them directly.

Parents fear that the system can be easily hacked by pedophiles. "Most pedophiles in Israel are parents of children," said the father of a girl whose school transitioned to this online learning system.

"The moment someone acquires a password to the system and logs in, the possibilities are endless. As parents, we can't tell our children to be careful with the emails they receive on this platform. This is an educational platform. This is their classroom. And it's not just sexual exploitation that we are worried about. Phishing, spamming, and harassment are all real concerns," he said.

Ido Naor, CEO of cybersecurity company Security Joes, told Israel Hayom, "From a security check we conducted, it appears that the Education Ministry uses Google Cloud to store files shared with all students. Any user can easily access the user list by using Google's autocomplete feature."

Responding to the claim, the Education Ministry said that "access to the system is only possible after identification through the identity feature, and those are defined as closed learning environments that exclude outside participants. As part of the ministry's policy, students can communicate with each other within the district, and their information is not exposed outside the district's educational environment."

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"The Saudis will soon 'come out of the closet,'" the official said.

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He also confirmed a report from Israel Hayom that within a few days, Sudan would launch a process of normalization.

Speaking to Israeli journalists, the official added that Sudan's decision to recognize Israel was linked to the country being dropped from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism.

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, told the Fox & Friends program that "there's more to come" after the recent US-brokered accords between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

"I think we're going to have some announcements soon on that front," O'Brien said.

Official data posted on the website FlightAware said a private plane flew Wednesday from Tel Aviv to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, where it stayed for roughly seven hours before returning to Tel Aviv.

Two senior Sudanese officials confirmed the visit. One of them, a senior military figure, said the US-Israeli delegation came to put final touches on a deal establishing ties with Israel. The delegation included Ronen Peretz, the acting director-general of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, and Brig. Gen. Miguel Correa, the senior director for Gulf Affairs on the US National Security Council, the official said.

A second official said the emerging deal would include Israeli aid and investment, particularly in technology and agriculture. The Americans and Israelis also promised to talk to allies in the Gulf and the West to bring investment and debt relief to Sudan. The visit came at a time of protests in Khartoum and elsewhere in Sudan over dire economic conditions.

High-ranking officials in Khartoum confirmed on Thursday the exclusive report about a nascent normalization deal.

According to the Sudanese official, the agreement would be signed within days, most likely in a Zoom ceremony in which Trump, Netanyahu, and head of Sudan's Transitional Military Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan would participate. He added that the ceremony would take place online due to the time constraints of the US presidential election.

Another Sudanese official told Israel Hayom that significant progress toward a normalization deal had taken place after a compromise was reached between al-Burhan – who, along with his supporters, back normalization with Israel – and Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok, who leads the faction of high-ranking office-holders who oppose normalization.

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Hamdok's technocratic government has so far rebuffed US advances aimed at pushing Sudan to follow the lead of the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, both of which signed agreements to establish formal ties with Israel at the White House last month.

"The prime minister will proceed in the steps taken by [al-Burhan] to establish ties with Israel if the legislative council, after it is formed, approves the decision to normalize ties," a senior source said.

Khartoum's caution reflects concerns that such a major foreign policy move at a time of deep economic crisis could upset the delicate balance between military and civilian factions, and even put the government at risk, two senior Sudanese government sources said.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to Hamdok on Thursday.

"Secretary Pompeo applauded Prime Minister Hamdok's efforts-to-date to improve Sudan's relationship with Israel and expressed hope that they would continue, and underscored continuing US support for Sudan's ongoing democratic transition," she said.

The London-based pan-Arabic news outlet Al Araby al-Jadeed also quoted senior officials in Sudan who confirmed that a deal with Israel would be signed within days, and said that "peace is closer than ever."

According to one senior government official in Khartoum who spoke with Israel Hayom: "The Middle East is changing, and Sudan wants to be part of the process. We have a unique opportunity to rehabilitate our society and our economy. The Palestinians are angry? They're angry with us, when any Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon is in better shape than Sudan? The days when the Palestinian problem was dumped on Sudan are over. We are working for the future of Sudan and our children and grandchildren."

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That joke – sponsored by the letter A – is a highlight of the first original podcast from Sesame Street, featuring music, interactive games and Muppets galore.

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"The Sesame Street Podcast with Foley & Friends" is an offering on Audible that gives some screen-free educational entertainment to kids who may be having spotty school lessons during the coronavirus pandemic.

"We think it's so important to have this other medium besides screens for playful, fun, engaging episodes that are also curriculum driven and really address the important educational needs for young children," said Jennifer Schiffman Sanders, the director of content, education and research for Sesame Workshop.

The podcast is led by 6-year-old, exuberant Foley, "the sound-maker monster." She's joined by her sidekick, Mikee the Microphone, a microphone with googly eyes. Together they tell jokes, sing songs and host familiar guests from the neighborhood, like Elmo, Big Bird and Cookie Monster.

"Each podcast really focuses on school readiness skills," said Schiffman Sanders. "It also addresses really critical social emotional skills like resilience and kindness, which is something we could all use a little more of these days."

Each 15-minute episode will revolve around a different preschool-friendly topic, from vehicles and animals to birthdays and learning the alphabet. There are recurring moments, like "Elmo's Joke of the Day," songs and a game show.

"Today on the podcast we're going to be talking all about the alphabet," Foley says in the first episode. "I love those A, B, Cs," replies Mikee.

The first guest is someone who especially likes the letter B – Big Bird. The letters A, B and C also join ("we don't have room from D-Z," they argue) For the A, we hear alligator sounds and for B there are balloon sounds.

Schiffman Sanders previously taught pre-school and helped "Sesame Street" transition from a visually vibrant TV show to an aural experience.

"I kept remembering, 'OK, but if they can't see it, how can we bring it to life? What do we need to do to keep children engaged?'" she said.

Foley, a new character, is voiced by Lindsey "Z" Briggs, a professional puppeteer since 2004 who, with her puppeteer husband, Chad Williams, created the company WonderSpark Puppets. She previously gave life to the Muppet Dalia for Sesame Workshop.

"I've always loved making different voices," she said by phone from her family's home in Springville, New York. "My whole life, I was always making funny sounds."

Since her new gig is just voice work, Briggs doesn't have to worry about manipulating puppets, lip synching or coordinating with a TV monitor. "For me, it's super freeing," she said. "Not having to think about almost half of that stuff is awesome."

Briggs, as well as her husband and their two boys, 7 and 5, fled New York City during the lockdown to western New York. They've found an unusual place to create the podcast – their  town's fallout shelter. But they've made it work.

The podcast kicked off last week and there are 15 episodes, released Tuesdays and Thursdays. Sesame Workshop hopes families will listen together, whether in the car, making dinner or before bedtime.

"It's been an absolute bright spot in the midst of everything that's been happening. It's been this one thing that I can look at and say, 'But you know what? We did this amazing thing,'" Briggs said.

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Managed by Michel Assayag, Oazis is working in collaboration with BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of BGU.

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The six startups – NeuroHelp; Panacea; 3D-Green; Flanimus; Testory; and MirageDynamics – will be featured on Zoom from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Israel Time) via this Zoom link.

Prof. Carmel Sofer, Chairman of Yazamut360 said, "The Oazis accelerator enables BGU's leading researchers to broaden their understanding in business-related aspects and in translating the knowledge developed in the labs into business initiatives. In addition, the accelerator helps the researchers find partners for establishing companies and promotes the conversion of outstanding research into successful startup companies."

CEO of BGN Technologies Josh Peleg added, "Oazis is a unique initiative in the Israeli academic landscape, and an important tool for accelerating the conversion of innovative applicable research originating from BGU into startups that will develop innovative products. It is noteworthy that since the beginning of the year we recorded a 30% increase, compared to the corresponding period in 2019, in the number of patent applications based on research from BGU."

To register for the event, follow this link.

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The two-day program featured a wide array of panels and one-on-one conversations, as well as breakout sessions and online networking opportunities with other summit attendees, with the goal of gathering international educators to learn the best lessons and models to take and implement in informal and formal classroom settings.

The coronavirus pandemic, along with changing the day to day activities of governments, businesses, and individuals, has posed serious challenges to the future of education. However, despite the hardships, on an optimistic note, the panelists said the coronavirus pandemic has brought about an increased collaboration among Jewish organizations. They agreed that the crisis could and should be used as a stepping stone to improve and to strive for a "higher quality" of content and programming in Jewish day schools and summer camps.

"We definitely want to see this crisis end soon, but we don't want to miss the opportunity to keep all the great things that are currently taking place as a result. Expanding collaboration between organizations, elevating the quality of content of programs to a whole new level, making Jewish and Israel education affordable and accessible to all. Now that we have re-imagined education for two days, it is time to go ahead and build it," said IAC Co-founder and CEO Shoham Nicolet.

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To stay relevant in the age of COVID-19, with synagogues across the globe shuttered, Zoom classes and prayer services have become the norm. Reform congregations broadcast their services on the Sabbath and Jewish holidays live, and a recent ruling by the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement approved the same.

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However, in Orthodox synagogues where congregants do not turn on the lights – or any electrical apparatus, for that matter – from Friday at sundown to after nightfall on Saturday night, events on the computer, are out of the question. Thus, Orthodox synagogues have to become more creative, says Benny Rogosnitzky, cantor at the iconic New York City Park East Synagogue, where he also organizes the prayer services online.

"Zoom has been the greatest challenge to the survival of our synagogues," says Rogosnitzky about traditional synagogues that cater to many who are not strictly Orthodox Jews, but enjoy attending their services. "When 10 blocks away a temple is connecting to you on Zoom on the Sabbath, why should they join us?"

Still, pre-Sabbath prayer services and sermons are one of the ways that many synagogues have been connecting with congregants and others these past three months under coronavirus lockdowns.

"The Zoom events are an imperfect way of staying connected," says Andy Wells, an attorney from Greenwich, Conn., who attends the weekly pre-Sabbath Zoom with Chabad of Greenwich. "This fills that void of there being no synagogue. I find it as a pleasant transition from the week to Shabbat and I look forward to it every week."

For Cohen, there are some advantages to Zoom services, which he usually does for different crowds, topping some 300 viewers weekly. "It is very family-oriented, with kids and grandparents joining in."

Yaakov Lemmer, cantor at Lincoln Square Synagogue in New York City, plays the piano and sings traditional melodies welcoming the onset of Shabbat. Source: Screenshot.

He says that Zoom events brought down the barrier that synagogues have between the ages, and in Orthodox synagogues, the genders in families. Couples will stand side by side with their children, and join together in singing and even dancing to Cohen's melodies. (On One Zoom event, a man in jest held a partition between him and his wife.)

Rogosnitzky concurs, saying that was the plus of undertaking this with the school – the children participate in the event. They also do candle-lighting, which became very meaningful for many, he affirms: "It is inspirational, the world is so dark, and message is that we are alive, we are happening."

In a synagogue, says Cohen, worshippers and religious leaders alike face the ark. But via Zoom, those directing services can see the feedback from the community, making it a very rewarding experience. In addition, he says, being able to use his guitar has brought a new flavor to the services, something he has never been able to do on the Sabbath itself.

'I don't use fatigue as the excuse'

On the West Coast, Rabbi Gershon Albert at Beth Jacob Congregation in Oakland, Calif., thinks that the musical aspect of the Zoom experience will transfer to the Orthodox Friday-night experience. "In the past, I was reluctant to us instruments," he says, "because it is not in the spirit of Shabbat. Now that it was ruled that it was OK if we start before Shabbat, I would consider doing it in the future."

Still, he counters, the reason why the members at his congregation, many of whom are secular, choose to join them is because of the Orthodox experience. "Shabbat is about getting away from screens after an entire week on computers and smartphones," he says, "Now we are logging on to do 'Lecha Dodi.' "

At Park East, Rogosnitzky agrees on that point. With Zoom, a certain ambiance of the synagogue is missing – after all, "you could be coming out of a bathtub and watching services," he quips. He does, however, say that for the interim, instruments have helped bring people into the spirit.

Still, his view is that when the main threat of the coronavirus has passed, "we will not necessarily we need them like we need them now."

While instruments have been one way to keep the crowd coming, Hadas Fruchter, founder of the South Philadelphia Shtiebel (a place used for communal Jewish prayer), says it takes considerable effort to keep everyone engaged on Zoom. She makes an effort to greet every person that joins by their name and make the message to each one individual "to humanize the experience."

But she as well as others acknowledged a certain "Zoom fatigue." Something that appeared to be a sound solution at first – and it was and still has been – is getting old.

Yisroel Pekar, a parenting coach in Brooklyn, NY, concurs, saying that at first, he was excited to join the weekly sermon that the rabbi of his synagogue would deliver on Zoom. "However, being all week on the computer, and then going back on the computer, just wasn't spiritually fulfilling."

He notes that his synagogue will be opening, and he looks forward to listening to the actual sermon.

In Connecticut, Wells says that going back to live services even with the synagogue opening outdoors for the summer is not an option at this time for him and many others.

Attendance to Zoom services, he says, is like everything in life, at first exciting and then needs a boost. "I don't use fatigue as the excuse; some mornings I wake up and want to pray, and some mornings, it is a struggle. The same is with business."

'I cannot wait to see them in person'

While the effects of COVID-19 on the future of synagogue life are still up in the air, most say that Zoom and online services is a thing that will stay for a long time, if not for eternity.

"It certainly gives a chance for those who are alone and can't get to services to connect," says Aviva Zobin of Ner Yisrael Community, a synagogue in the London suburb of Hendon. "I imagine it will continue when we open."

In Philadelphia, Fruchter says that it is only ethical for those who cannot come, for whatever reason, at synagogue itself to being given the opportunity to join at least virtually, when permitted, under Jewish law. "We are going to keep providing both," she says.

Rogosnitzky differs a bit, saying Zoom services are "far second to actually being at services."

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Being in synagogue, he notes, has a spirit to it – looking at the ark and physically being next to others. "Peoples are yearning to come back to synagogue. I don't see Zoom as competition to the synagogue experience; I see it as a vehicle to keep the connection during this time."

Albert is more cautious of the future, saying he is curious to see what will happen when the doors open again. "Who will feel comfortable, and who won't feel comfortable? I think that there is a craving for synagogue, but I think there will be some fear, and some may just choose to stay home."

For Fruchter's small congregation, Zoom has brought new people to their events who might have been nervous to join a traditional experience in person. She believes they are relieved, have warmed up and might just become regulars.

"I am so excited for the moment we return to synagogue," she practically gushes. "I cannot wait to see them in person, I cannot wait to invite for Shabbat dinner. I cannot wait to just greet them and give them a hug."

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