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Assaf Rappaport was running late for school. To those who knew the 18 year old best, this truancy was nothing new. The consummate generalist had earned a reputation for spreading himself too thin—he was always busy with a friend, a new extracurricular, maybe a school trip. Rappaport describes his role in his family with characteristic middle-child-of-five wryness, “I’m the one that everybody was generally upset with, not answering the phone, not being available, not being there. So the disappointment, that’s my role.” But even for him, this absence was noteworthy because he wasn’t just late for school by a matter of minutes. He had missed the entire first week. This time, though, Rappaport had an unassailable excuse for his tardiness to the Jerusalem campus of Hebrew University: It had been government mandated. The summer after graduating high school, he began a rotation in Talpiot, an elite military program for Israel’s top students in math and science, one that would set him up to co

With a Little Help From Their Friends Published October 22, 2024 By Harry Spitzer Harry Spitzer is an award-winning documentary director and writer based in New York City. His work has appeared on The Verge, Catapult, Atlas Obscura, and The Cut. How Wiz’s co-founders built upon a decades-long relationship to engineer their cloud security platform’s stratospheric ascent Published October 22, 2024 By Harry Spitzer Harry Spitzer is an award-winning documentary director and writer based in New York City. His work has appeared on The Verge, Catapult, Atlas Obscura, and The Cut. Assaf Rappaport was

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