{"id":109,"date":"2013-04-24T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:49:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T09:49:05","slug":"109-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/109-2\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Biography<\/h3>\n<p>Jacob Burak is a businessman who became an author and social activist. In 1987 he established an investment company \u2013 Evergreen \u2013 a pioneer in Israeli Venture Capital. In 2005 he retired from the business world. In 2007 he published his first book \u201cDo Chimpanzees Dream of Retirement\u201d and in April 2009 published his book \u201cNoise\u201d. His third book \u201cWhy Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets\u201d was published in January of 2011. \u201cHow To Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room\u201d was published in 2013 and \u201cOne Day When I Am Younger was published in 2016. All his books became bestsellers.<br \/>\nFounded <a href=\"http:\/\/alaxon.co.il\">Alaxon<\/a> - a digital magazine featuring articles on culture, art and popular sciences, where he writes regularly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/weekend\/magazine\/what-makes-jacob-run-1.345661\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92\" style=\"color: #333333;\" src=\"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jacob-burak06.jpg\" alt=\"\u05d9\u05e2\u05e7\u05d1 \u05d1\u05d5\u05e8\u05e7\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jacob-burak06.jpg 650w, https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/jacob-burak06-170x113.jpg 170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Contributor to<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/users\/jacobburak\">Aeon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110400589260634890980\/\" rel=\"me\">Google+<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\u05de\u05d2\u05d6\u05d9\u05df \u05d0\u05dc\u05db\u05e1\u05d5\u05df\" href=\"http:\/\/alaxon.co.il\/author\/jacob\/\">Alaxon (hebrew)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\u05d4\u05d0\u05e8\u05e5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/\">Haaretz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\u05de\u05d2\u05d6\u05d9\u05df \u05d0\u05e0\u05d8\u05d9\u05d9\u05d8\u05dc\u05d3\" href=\"http:\/\/untitled.org.il\/?author=73\">Untitled Magazine (hebrew)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarker.com\/misc\/writers\/1.2193\" target=\"_blank\">Haaretz (hebrew)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Gruenderszene\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gruenderszene.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"contributor-to nofollow\">Gruenderszene<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1919064\">Vimeo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Burak is a businessman who became an author and social activist. In 1987 he established an investment company \u2013 Evergreen \u2013 a pioneer in Israeli Venture Capital. In 2005 he retired from the business world. In 2007 he published his first book \u201cDo Chimpanzees Dream of Retirement\u201d and in April 2009 published his book \u201cNoise\u201d. His third book \u201cWhy Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets\u201d was published in January of 2011. \u201cHow To Find a Black Cat in a Dark Room\u201d was published in 2013 and \u201cOne Day When I Am Younger was published in 2016. All his books became bestsellers. <br \/>Founded <a href=\"http:\/\/alaxon.co.il\">Alaxon<\/a> &#8211; a digital magazine featuring articles on culture, art and popular sciences,  where he writes regularly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacobburak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}