The event, under the theme “Entrepreneurship is for Everyone,” hosted entrepreneurs and investors, alongside the US Ambassador to Israel ‘Global Entrepreneurship Network’ (GEN) which is growing rapidly. According to its own figures, the network is reaching close to 10 million participants in 200 countries worldwide.
The opening bell ceremony at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange was this morning, Sunday, November 17, and included entrepreneurs aged 20-78, representing a wide range of backgrounds and fields of activity.
Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) operates as an annual platform of programs and initiatives created by communities of entrepreneurs, professional experts, and investors from around the world, with activities across sectors, religions and cultures, and with special focus on the social periphery. The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange was represented by Eyal Silberstein, Sales Manager.
GEN helps people interested in entrepreneurship develop their ideas and turn them into quality ventures while creating new jobs and strengthening economic stability. In Israel, Entrepreneurship Week is held with the support of the US Embassy.
This year, under the theme “Entrepreneurship is for Everyone,” the meeting included entrepreneur Imad Younis, owner, president and co-founder of medical technology company “Alpha Omega”, Adina Bar-Shalom, founder of the Haredi College “Jerusalem” and Israel Prize laureate, Attorney Hanan Alsanah, Co-founder of the Bedouin-Jewish emergency headquarters for the war, in Rahat, and Ishay Green, software and systems architect, serial entrepreneur and investor.
Ayla Matalon, Chairperson of Global Entrepreneurship Network Israel: “Entrepreneurship is a benevolent force. The power to create. It goes across borders and cultures, connects, promotes and builds. It has the capacity to enlarge the pie and create personal and social scale, abundance and employment. Entrepreneurship is NOT for everybody.“
Based on the press release of TASE (17.11.2024). Selected as relevant/shortened/regrouped by VonNaftali. Pic by AI. Symbolic