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Wedding app saves red faces

September 1, 2016 10:42
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By

Nathan Jeffay,

Nathan Jeffay

1 min read

Some of the traditional awkwardness of Israeli weddings is being solved - by technology.

In Britain, gift-giving is easy, with presents purchased from a wedding list in just a few clicks - but in Israel, guests give money, leaving many scratching their heads over the appropriate amount.

As a result, Israelis are turning increasingly to online "gift-giving calculators". They ask you a set of questions, such as how close you are to the couple, where the celebration is taking place, in which season they are tying the knot and what your job is.

One of the sites, Mitchatnim, trumpets the credentials of its algorithm, saying that it was developed with the help of boffins from the Haifa Technion.

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