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His first major success began with the establishment of the Golden Pages telephone directory in Israel in 1968, which led to the co-founding of Amdocs in 1982, together with Shmuel and Tzvi Meitar. Amdocs provides customer relationship management and billing software for big telecommunications firms.
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Falcon 9 Launcher and it was aimed to land on the moon on 11 April 2019. The attempt was unsuccessful, the spacecraft crashed into the Moon. Still the mission was seen as a success. He was known to be one of the main donors for
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In 1978 Kahn and Shmuel Meitar founded the Aurec Group, an
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to disinfect water, and N-Trig, a manufacturer of multi-touch screens for computers. In 2016 Aurum
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Morris Kahn was married to his late wife, Jacqueline, until the time of her death in 2011.
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Chairman Yair Hamburger in November 2016, and opened the Games in July, 2017 in Jerusalem.
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