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Business Gossip: Who Celebrated a Birthday at Her New Home?

Also: Tel Aviv University is working to improve patients' lives, the Diamond Exchange welcomes the agreement with the United Arab Emirates, MDA thanks Bank Hapoalim and Handel is impressed by innovations at Bar Ilan University

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Ronit Matias

A double celebration

Ofra Shimoni, owner of the Shimoni group, celebrated a double celebration, a birthday and the inauguration of her new home in Bnei Brak. The meal was attended by Chef Yehuda Amar and Maor Sabag, Chef of the Light House Hotel. Farjon Foundation confectioner has opened a creative and delicious sweet table. On the musical part, singer Ricky Ben-Ari thrilled everyone.

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Celebrating designers and architects among them: Eyal Shalom, who dedicated a song to Shimoni by Shlomo Artzi, Nitzan and Dorit Sela, who designed the house for her, Shirley Dan, Meirav Shalom, Gadi Friedman and the designer Meirav Dahan; Etty Vandermolen, Orly de Leo, Roi Levy, Aviad Fayet, Arik Aviv, Sisi Ziv; Miriam Ezra, one of the owners of Miriam Ezra Curtains, her husband Yossi, the CEO of the company and their son Tom; Amnon Maccabi, one of the owners of Gamma Systems; Avi Barzali, one of the owners of parquet to the house; Moshe Lasri, CEO of Vitraum; Nir Peretz, CEO of Ragaf, fashion designer Dror Contento.

Mentors and excited

Tel Aviv University launched the Shmonis School of Biomedical and Cancer Research online. The new school was launched with the donation of the Shmonis family, for the benefit of research and improved treatment of cancer and the development of biomedical research in coronavirus and other diseases. The school belongs to the Faculty of Life Sciences. , And support will allow for a step up in groundbreaking research.

The school named Munis, researchers will identify mechanisms underlying them of cancer and other diseases, and allowed for the development of new drugs, improved quality of life and quality of life of patients. All this, through collaboration between researchers in different research areas and development approaches to innovative research.

Vlad Vesna Munis Expressed hope that the donation will help strengthen Israel's position as a world leader in cancer research and molecular biomedicine research, Weld said they are pleased to be able to share significant support in top-notch cancer research and other diseases, saying unfortunately cancer has affected his family and far too many families Others around the world. "We hope that our contribution will significantly advance research and treatment of cancer and other serious diseases at Tel Aviv University, in order to improve the lives of people in Israel and around the world."

Excited: Minister of Science and Technology, Yizhar Shai; and President of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Ariel Porat.

Honey in Dubai

Last night, Yoram Debash, President of the Israel Diamond Exchange, called Ahmad Ben Sulaim, President of the Dubai Diamond Exchange, and Martin Lake, CEO, and congratulated them on the historic agreement. Debash, who also serves as President of the World Exchange, congratulated the Israeli government and Prime Minister Netanyahu on reaching an agreement historical and strategic relationship with the United Arab Emirates.

honey said that Dubai and the Gulf states are important partners in the global diamond industry and had a right to stay in Dubai and entertain us your IDE President of Dubai. honey said that the agreement important, opens a horizon greater cooperation in the areas of trade and economy, and this is great news And is important to the citizens of Israel and the Middle East.

Social banking

Naama Halevi Peer, Director of the Center for Social Banking at Bank Hapoalim, received certificates of appreciation for Ilan Klein, Deputy Director of the MDA Resource Collection Department, for the fruitful cooperation between the entities. Dedicated to Beat to support the emergency teams during the Corona period, which raised over NIS 11 million, and for a donation of half a million shekels that the bank transferred to the MDA organization in order to enable it to function in the best way during the Corona period.

Halevi-Peer, Samar Bishara, director of workers in the community, and Sharon Alluf, director of corporate responsibility at the bank, brought to the meeting with MDA Eliezer Hirschberg, a bank employee who has been volunteering as a paramedic at MDA for 12 years.

Fly far

Prof. Eyal Yaniv, Head of the Center for Smart Cities at Bar-Ilan University, and Prof. Aryeh Tzavan, President of the University, hosted Yoaz Handel, Minister of Communications, and presented him with advanced technological experiments, skimmers that will optimize the 5G network, and an autonomous vehicle When a shuttle to transport students, without the use of a driver. These are experiments that are already taking place, on campus and are expected to expand in light of the end of the government tender for the 5G network in which the major cellular providers took part.

We said goodbye

Danny Amir, Chairman of the Bureau of Inbound Tourism Organizers in Israel and Yossi Fattal, Director General of the Bureau, held a farewell ceremony for the outgoing Minister of Tourism, Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, and thanked him for his many services and achievements as Minister of Tourism in 2015-2020. The management of the Chamber of Inbound Tourism Organizers in Israel gave him a letter of thanks and appreciation for the service he did to the tourism industry and the many achievements he achieved during his tenure as minister, and gave him a picture with a personal dedication.

Contribution in love

Eli Shaked, a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt and a resident of Modi'in, came to the Yad Sarah branch in the city and decided to donate on his behalf and on behalf of his wife the state grant they received for NIS 1,500. The exciting grant will be used to purchase rehabilitative medical equipment and help every resident in Israel. The Yad Sara organization calls on everyone who does not need a grant to adopt Shaked's path, and to donate the grant for the benefit of the organization's services, since the essence of the organization is giving wholeheartedly.

Pizza on WhatsApp

Shmuel Baruch, CEO of Pizza Hut Pizza Israeli-largest network in Israel, visited some 92 branches around the country, the launch of the online reservation service application Hooatsf. The innovative service allows implementing the order of application Hooatsf and without going to an external site.

Baruch said Because in recent years, Pizza Hut has regretted its flagship to lead the technological advancement and constantly provide innovations to its customers and noted that this time too they are the first in the country to implement this type of service, and are confident that it will serve the existing and new customers, and allow it to continue. And innovative.

Art in Korna

This weekend, the Unity Art House organization held an event for the opening of the Israeli Art Festival, which will be held during August-September at the Piano Center in Netanya. Maria Freiger, chairman of the association, hosted the city's senior officials and residents and the 25 Israeli artists who will present their works at the festival, including glass artists, painters, wood artists, puppets, sculptures, fabric and knitting artists, iron artists, jewelers and more, including artist Veronica Sarah Sinyuk , A resident of Netanya, exhibiting original acrylic paintings at the festival. At the

tangents: Shmulik Ben-Haim, CEO of the Piano Center, which hosts the festival.

In good energy

Nir Peleg, CEO of EnerPoint, one of the leading companies in the economy in the field of solar energy, said that despite the Corona crisis in the first half of 2020, the company increased its activity by installing solar energy systems by 50%. 1,500 roofs in the private and commercial sectors Enerpoint is currently working harder and promoting the trend of renting roofs for the construction of solar energy systems when the electricity is sold to the electricity company and the property owners will enjoy a fixed annual rent for the roof for a period of 25 years.

The President is encouraging

President Reuven Ruby Rivlin, visited the "Encouragement Village" in Netanya - a unique sheltered housing intended for people with disabilities, Rivlin learned about the village residents' coping with the corona limitations and talked to the professionals who accompany the tenants in a professional envelope of supervision, care and rehabilitation.

Miriam Feierberg-Icher, Mayor of Netanya, told about the days of the establishment of the village initiated by MK Yitzhak Yitzhaki when she was the director of education at the municipality, and he told her about his dream to establish a village for residents with high functional ability who can live independently with a group of parents. The problem was that no city in the country gave them a place.Joel Elroi as mayor agreed and together they started construction.

In small

+ The head of the Tel Aviv University alumni organization, Sigalit Ben Hayun, continues the tradition of online events in a variety of fields with inspiring alumni, this time putting the issue of our food and drink on the table in the post-Corona era. Under the heading "Close to the plate", 5 leading alumni who deal with the food world on a daily basis met on a multitude of solutions for food shortages in the world or in the country, new types of food, online shopping and more.

The event was opened by Amos Elad, Vice President for Foreign Relations, Resource Development and Graduate Affairs at Tel Aviv University, who spoke about unemployment and distress among students, and called on graduates to join the fundraising effort for scholarships.

In the audience: Eyal Shochat, CEO of Sodastream and a graduate of the Faculties of Law and Management; Guy Rosen, Deputy Chairman of the Tnuva Board of Directors and Millennium FoodTech Chairman and a graduate of the Faculty of Law; Keren Mimran, Entrepreneur, VP of Business Development and Marketing at Idit Technologies Adv. Galia Sagi-Gazit, Director of the Food Industries Association, the Manufacturers' Association and a graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences; Yair Darel, CEO of Ornat Food Industries Ltd.; Avi Hudin, CEO of Electra SPC; Shai Aharoni, Environmental Manager at Unilever; Sigal Gafni of Channel 12; Racheli Yarkoni-Goldstein, founder and CEO of myAir foodtech and more.