“The Wall” Part III – The Invisibles

Mishy Harman talks to Yoram Arbel, Israel’s quintessential sportscaster. Together they go back in time to Ramat Gan, 1989, where – in the middle of a pivotal World Cup qualifying match between Israel and Australia – an unimaginably iconic catchphrase was born.

When Yochai Maital recently tried to send a text message with some good news to his friends and family, he discovered that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp had all simultaneously collapsed. That got him thinking. How much of his life, he wondered, relied on web-based platforms? What would happen if they all crashed at once? And what, really, was protecting our ever-expanding digital presence? Luckily, he knew just the man to ask: Gil Shwed, an enthusiastic computer geek from Beit HaKerem, Jerusalem who – among many other things – is widely considered to be the inventor of the modern computer firewall. Gil recounts how, from his start at a local Orthodox community center, he went on to found and run Check Point, one of the world’s most influential software giants.

And… ever thought you’d join an island retreat of Indonesian hackers? Now is your chance. Check out this video of them celebrating.

What happens when an internationally renowned artist stands in front of his inspiring muse? Mishy Harman tells a tale which all began when, in November 1957, one particularly prominent New Yorker opened his Sunday morning Times and read about an astounding biblical discovery halfway across the globe.