• Business

• Advertising and media

Business gossip: personal meeting - overseas

Also: giving business opportunities to the boys of the north, joining Lapidot's new women, giving a delicious thank you to the doctors and connecting with the Jews of the Diaspora

Tags

• gossip

• Business gossip

Ronit Matias

Wednesday, 13 January 2021, 10:42

• Share on Facebook

• Share on WhatsApp

• Share on general

• Share on general

• Share on Twitter

• Share on Email

0 comments

Face to Face

Thomas Friedman and Amnon Shashua (Photo: PR, Uri Gross)

The Corona plague has not prevented the existence of the largest technology exhibition in the world.

In technology as in technology, the exhibition took place in a virtual format, with one of the most interesting events being a meeting that took place today (Wednesday) with Prof. Amnon Shashua, founder and CEO of Mobilai and journalist Thomas Friedman of the New York Times. , The fact that Amusement is in Israel and Friedman is in the US, took place using advanced technology for conducting face-to-face conversation.

Amusement, considered a global expert on computer vision and artificial intelligence, presented his predictions for the development of technology in the world and how it will shape our lives in the coming years.

Just this week, Mobilai announced at various shows at CES that next year it will operate 100 driverless taxis in Tel Aviv and by 2025 consumers will be able to purchase autonomous vehicles.

Good to know (promoted)

This button can save your life in a cardiac or cerebral event

To the full article

Give a chance

Eyal Melis and Assaf Weiss (Photo: PR, Yossi Zeliger)

This week, an entrepreneurship center was launched for youth in Kiryat Shmona and the surrounding area, established by Tnuva in collaboration with the Unistream Association, the Vancouver Federation, and partners from the Kiryat Shmona Municipality and the Eastern Galilee Cluster.

The project will allow 75 young people to have a unique opportunity to be exposed to the world of business, to experience, learn and lead a business start-up even in high school.

The start-ups will focus mainly on the field of podtech.

The youth participating in the project are from all sectors and genders, from the localities of the Eastern and Upper Galilee cluster, urban and rural, Jews, Arabs and Druze.

Excited by Zoom: Assaf Weiss, CEO of Unistream; Eyal Melis, CEO of Tnuva;

Avichai Stern, Mayor of Kiryat Shmona;

Benny Ben-Mubhar, Chairman of the Mevoot Hermon Regional Council and Chairman of the Eastern Galilee Cluster; Giora Salz, Chairman of the Upper Galilee Regional Council; Aaron Goldberg, Vice President of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation and Board Member of the Unionists; Candice Quinter, Chairman of the Allocations Committee And Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vancouver Federation.

A winning pair

Alon and Ortal Ullman, Yehuda Meshi Zahav (Photo: PR, Efrat Sharabi)

Ortal Ullman and her husband Mentor Alon Ullman, founder of the Conducting Code Group, joined the Lapidot organization, which aims to initiate and lead groundbreaking, life-saving and life-enhancing processes, in social processes for the benefit and well-being of the public, regardless of religion, race and sex.

Doctor's Day

Gidi Leshatz, Sergei Spector (Photo: PR, Oded Karni)

On the occasion of World Physician Day, which took place this week, Assuta initiated medical centers in tribute to the community of physicians and blue-and-white products, in which it collaborated with Assaf Granit, who chose for the doctors at all Assuta centers a culinary indulgence package.

Gadi Leshatz, CEO of Assuta Medical Centers, said it was important for them to salute their community of more than 2,500 specialist doctors across the country, and say thank you to them with a gift that allows them to support Israeli businesses.

Maintain optimism

Omri Caspi (Photo: PR, Basketball Association)

As part of the Sunshine Association's activities to strengthen optimism, connection and solidarity among the Jewish people in Israel and around the world, Bat Galim and Ofir Shaar, the parents of Gil-Ad Shaar, who was abducted and murdered in the summer of 2014 with two other boys, launched the "My Jewish twin - Happy Birthday 2 You" project. Israeli Jews to Diaspora Jews on the basis of a common date of birth.

Bat-Galim, Gil-Ad's mother and chairman of the association, said that the project was launched on Gil-Ad's birthday, which was supposed to celebrate his 23rd birthday, and added that the corona plague intensified the distance of distance that was forced on all of us, and how important it was. The sense of togetherness that every Jew in the world should feel, and the closeness, connection and concern should be duplicated.The

project was joined by key figures and celebrities from Israel and the Jewish world, including: Bozi Herzog, Galit Gutman, Aline Cohen, Omri Caspi, Kim Or Azulai, Anna Zack, Lehi Lapid, Ilanit Levy, Korin Gideon, Einat Shroff, Avraham Fried, Leon Rosenberg and more.

Large and luxurious

Miriam Daher and Lynn Khalifa (Photo: PR, Chen Yaakov)

Volunteers from the "Greater Than Life" organization and children hospitalized in the hemato-oncology system at Ruth Children's Hospital in Rambam handed out roses to the department's doctors on the occasion of "Israeli Doctor's Day."

Nofar Shaham, a life-long coordinator, said that they stopped the treatment routine for a moment to thank the doctors and doctors with a huge heart, for their uncompromising professionalism and endless care, noting that thanks to the treatments and tests, they are the main partners in the children's recovery process.

Zoom scholarships

Bozi Herzog, Ehud Ratzabi (Photo: PR, Eyal Friedman)

ILAN - an Israeli association for injured children, organized a ceremony to distribute scholarships named after the late Paulina and Dr. Avraham Bergman, to 57 students who are members of the association from all over the country, studying for bachelor's and master's degrees in a wide variety of subjects.

The scholarships, totaling NIS 115,000, were distributed through the Bergman Foundation and in cooperation with the Jewish Agency's Lei Foundation.

The ceremony was attended by CPA Ehud Ratzabi, Chairman of the Association Boaz Herman, CEO; Yitzhak (Buzi) Herzog, Chairman of the Jewish Agency;

Audley H. Fitoussi, recently elected with the support of 109 countries around the world, to Israel's representative on the UN's CRPD Committee of Experts on People with Disabilities, is also one of the recipients of ILAN scholarships in the past.

Got on the wave

Real Wave (Photo: PR, Geva Talmore)

Actor and entrepreneur Gal Amitai, who will star in the movie "Air Battle", owner of the "Studio" acting school and bar in Tel Aviv, was chosen to star in the campaign for the LYFE office project of the Dan Real Estate and Ashtrom Properties of the Ashtrom Group, which is currently located at the BBC Barak. The campaign is led by Iwaleb Media, directed by Omri Taub and Kobi Bitter's production company We Lift. The

campaign will be promoted mainly on major digital platforms. The LYFE project was designed so that alongside the three office towers, some for sale and some for long term rent, a unique experience complex was built. In addition to business services, it will also offer leisure services.The LYFE project covers an area of ​​about 16 dunams, in the employment area of ​​Bnei Brak called the BBC, and its population is expected during 2022.

As part of the project, two 34-story and 36-story towers are currently being used for offices. And trade.The total built-up area of ​​the towers and parking areas will stand at over 200,000 square meters.

Education efforts

Verizon Media employees - the media division of the American communications giant Verizon in Israel, decided to adopt the Education Association for Psagot.

In the last quarter of 2020, the company's employees in Tel Aviv and Haifa devoted dozens of hours of volunteering to joint educational activities with the seventh-graders with high learning abilities living in the East Tel Aviv neighborhoods, who participate in the enrichment education programs for Psagot.

Volunteers give trainees weekly reinforcement classes in English and math, and entrepreneurship and programming courses at MIT Media Lab Scratch.

Following a poll conducted among the company's employees in Israel, a decision was also made to donate NIS 80,000 to the organization in parallel with the continuation of activities during 2021.

Lev Korostishevsky, Verizon Media's director of operations in Israel, said that the Psagot Education Association allows many youth to realize their learning abilities. They would find it difficult to do so and may even be left behind, and the association's blessed activity encourages and promotes the next generation of entrepreneurs and workers in Israel. He added that at Verizon Media they allow any employee to volunteer on issues close to his heart, and last year many employees decided to volunteer for the association's goals. close cooperation will continue successfully again this year.

Nimrod Dotan, Executive Director, College for all, said he appreciated the choice of non obvious of Verizon employees Media in Israel to invest in efforts to narrow social gaps and learning the periphery expanding every day following the restrictions epidemic of sources, and Give campers a future to strive for.

• Share on Facebook

• Share on WhatsApp

• Share on general

• Share on general

• Share on Twitter

• Share on Email

0 comments