Nir Zohar’s Post

In the past few days I have been bombarded with messages from Israeli employees, friends and colleagues from all over the world sending screenshots of one of Wix’s employees who states that Israel is a terrorist state. Our team members in Israel have been through so much since the horrible Oct 7 Hamas attack; they are in mourning, some lost their homes, others have lost friends and family members, many have been to multiple funerals in the span of the last 2 weeks (sometimes more than 1 funeral in a single day!) and some even know that as the body recognition process progresses they will have to go to more very soon, others have been personally locked for hours while shots were fired outside their shelters and friends were murdered, there is so much pain and personal trauma. In the midst of this, for all the Israelis to be called terrorists by someone they perceive as a teammate and a colleague is unfathomable, unexplainable and unacceptable. The employee posted something inflammatory of a similar kind last week. She was asked by her manager to be sensitive to her peers after being told how much pain this is causing her foreign colleagues and removed that post, yet only a few days later chose to post the above mentioned post that essentially points a blaming finger at the victims of horrific terrorism. Wix is a global company, it is an open and a liberal company. We would never try to limit anyone’s political views, we do however also hold a strong set of internal values about our team spirit, partnership and friendship. These accusations in such troubling times not only harm our Israeli team's spirit, they also threaten the great connection between our Dublin offices with our 500 team members and their Israeli colleagues. We therefore decided to part ways with this employee.