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Baruch HaLevi

May 15, 2018, 2:30 PM

Shavuot and the Secret Sauce of the Start-up Nation

Celebrating the harvest on Shavuot at Jerusalem's First Station (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash 90)

Why did this tiny country, a young country, a country with no natural resources and perennially pounded by all kinds of adversity become the Start-up Nation?

Apr 16, 2018, 11:35 PM

Israel @ 70: Lessons To Learn From The Startup Nation

It’s not luck or coincidence that some regions become flourishing business communities in a particular sector. Detroit is known for automotive expertise, Silicon Valley for tech, Hartford for Insurance, Switzerland for watches, Germany for engineering. Take a look at Israel,...

Apr 12, 2018, 11:28 AM

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Holocaust Remembrance Day: The Startup Nation Remembers. Israel Innovation Repairs

Jewish youth from all over the world participate in the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland on April 11, 2018(Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israeli entrepreneurs, descendants of Holocaust victims, are redeeming their ancestors by providing humankind with life sustaining innovations and technologies

Mar 30, 2018, 10:20 AM

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Passover and the Exodus: The Origins of Israeli Innovation & the Start-up Nation

The “bread of our affliction” now comes in varieties that won’t afflict those on a gluten-free diet. (Fishman/Ullstein Bild via Getty Images/JTA)

Today, there is no shortage of plagues, over which to despair; what we learn from the Passover story is that there is always a way across the sea

Mar 21, 2018, 3:30 PM

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Tech-un Olam: Repairing the World One Israel Innovation at a Time

Illustrative photo of a Mac laptop. (Sophie Gordon/Flash90)

The Hebrew expression Tikun Olam literally translates to 'fixing the world'; this implies that the world is a broken place

About Me

Rabbi Dr. Baruch HaLevi is the former rabbi of Congregation Shirat Hayam in Swampscott and the CEO and co-founder of welaunch, a U.S.-based non-profit introducing Israeli technology start-ups to corporations, investors and research partners as a platform for economic development, Jewish community engagement and Israel innovation education. www.welaunch.org