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MyHeritage's innovative offices

Journey through the Evolution of MyHeritage's Office Design, Combining History with Modernity, Captured by Auerbach Halevy Architects.

|ByWALLA! HOME, DESIGN
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The family tree decorating Dvora Waysman’s home. She now has four children, 18 grandchildren and more than 30 grandchildren.

JewishGen to add millions of Jewish records to MyHeritage

The combined collection of records will number at 5.8 million, expanding the database of Jewish geneology.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MyHeritage CEO Gilad Japhet

MyHeritage acquires French competitor Filae for $37m.

Tel Aviv-based genealogy testing company MyHeritage said Monday that it agreed to acquire Filae, a leading family history service in France, for some $37 million.

|ByZEV STUB
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Human Rights Watch chairman invests in Israel as he calls it ‘apartheid’

Neil Rimer is a board member of Human Rights Watch, which recently accused Israel of apartheid.

|ByLAHAV HARKOV

Which Backstreet Boy is Jewish?

Ain't nothing but some DNA...

AUGUST 29, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The Backstreet Boys in concert, Rishon LeZion, April 22, 2018.

DNA study reveals 130,000 Hungarians are at least 50% Jewish

At least 7.6% of 4,981 people living in Hungary who took MyHeritage DNA test found to have 25% or more Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity

AUGUST 14, 2019ByILANIT CHERNICK
An illustrative image of a mouth swab for DNA testing

13-year-old locates relatives from Montefiore Census via MyHeritage

JULY 25, 2019ByDAVID DIMOLFETTA
Gilad Japhet gives Jonathan Cohen some research tips at the MyHeritage office in Bnei Atarot.

Israel becomes first country to list all cemetery tombstones online

MyHeritage, the company known for its online family tree maker has digitized every cemetery in the Jewish State.

MARCH 14, 2019ByBEN BRESKY
Descendants of Menucha Rochel Slonim at her grave in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Hebron

Abandoned at a train station, two Korean sisters reunited by Israeli tech

MyHeritage later told the two that they were siblings with the same mother and father, and orchestrated their reunion at the train station where they were both abandoned.

FEBRUARY 26, 2019ByYVETTE J. DEANE
Abandoned at a train station, two Korean sisters reunited by Israeli tech.