“Blackout” Dark Restaurant at Na La’gaat
BlackOut Restaurant invites you to an exceptional culinary experience that will trigger your senses.
In total darkness you will be served various dishes, escorted by blind waiters. When the eyes do not engage in the eating process, one’s ability to taste and smell food sharpens. There is so much to be “seen” when eyes are closed… Dining at BlackOut is one of the three outstanding experiences offered to the visitors of the “Nalaga’at” Center. The Center – the first of its kind in the world, seeks to promote interaction between deaf-blind, deaf, and blind individuals and people able to hear and see, regardless of cultural or social distinctions.
Beit Issie Shapiro
With over 300,000 Israeli children with disabilities and many millions more worldwide, Beit Issie Shapiro has moved beyond its origins as Israel’s most prolific provider of services to children with disabilities and their families. They have also become an acknowledged global leader in the development and proven implementation of innovative solutions in the disabilities field.
Comme il faut
“Comme il faut”, literally translated from French to ‘properly,’ is a business by women for women.
Comme il faut is comprised of a fashion house, women’s only spa, and chef’s restaurant located at the Beit Banamal (Home in the Harbor) complex at Tel Aviv port, that offers a women’s venue for culture and entertainment. Sybil Goldfiner founded the company together with Carole Godin 22 years ago, as a business by women for women. The company seeks to advance women in Israeli society by developing and cultivating feminist awareness. The approach that guides the company’s activities is that a garment is not only a garment, but is also part of an entire gamut of political actions that are motivated by a cultural-critical worldview. The designers at comme Il faut believe that a piece of clothing truly resembles the way in which it was produced, the body image it carries, and the way we choose to advertise and display it. Moreover, the clothing article will always signify the values that inspired its creation.
Daniel Rowing Centre
The Daniel Rowing Centre is Israel’s leading rowing facility. Located on the bank of the Yarkon River in Tel Aviv, it’s the home of Israel’s national rowing team, and a leader in rowing, kayaking and sailing classes for children and youth.
Competitive Rowing is a unique Olympic sport, with a growing popularity in Israel. Requiring technique, focus and precision, rowing shapes your body, builds stamina, and develops strength. In crew boats and skiffs, it’s the fastest muscle-powered boat in the world. The Daniel Rowing Centre offers top professional instructors, quality equipment, and a thriving social atmosphere – for kids, adults and premier athletes alike. Join us for exciting action on the water!
Open Sea Kayaking is challenging, and requires technique and courage. It’s ideal for leisure and touring, as well as extreme action & fun. The Daniel Rowing Centre is home to one of Israel’s leading kayaking clubs, headed by Rami Gil and his internationally qualified instructors. The club offers trial lessons and courses in Sea kayaks, Olympic kayaks and Surfski. Guided group excursions are scheduled throughout the week, and long distance adventures in Israel and abroad are organised several times a year.
Dragon Boats offer a ‘do it together’ team experience – all in a boat, operating it as one. It’s a unique team and leadership development platform, for both personal and group skills. The Yarkon River offers an unforgettable city-nature adventure. Suitable for both large groups and small teams. Pupils, students, Hi-Tech firms, Banks, IDF and police units, families, tourists – join us for an unforgettable outing!
9 years ago we launched a program for youth at risk and with special needs. We named it ‘Sea of Friends’. Combining emotional experiences in the open sea, and processing them with cognitive tools, is at the heart of this program. Each meeting integrates three parts: An opening workshop, a nautical activity in the boats, and a processing workshop. We also developed unique programs for people with disabilities: visually impaired, Parkinson’s sufferers, mental illnesses, autistic children, and breast cancer survivors. Hundreds of participants later, it’s time to tell and share. Partly because, yes, we’re proud, but mostly so that you will help us reach more audiences – more groups of kids and juveniles who could benefit, more people with special needs who can be included.
David Kramer
CEO & Author at NU Campaign
David Kramer is founder and CEO of NU Campaign. He is also the co-founder of Heart of Israel. He moved to Israel from South Africa 16 years ago. After serving in the IDF, he worked for the Jewish Agency, the World Union of Jewish Students, and was a founding partner at Segwayz Jerusalem. David currently lives in Jerusalem.
Edna Fast
Founder at Lunart Fund
Edna Fast was born in Tel Aviv and moved with her family to New York in 1984. During her 34 years in NYC, Edna founded and managed EZ Fast Realty, Inc. – a company providing consulting, management and brokerage services for foreign real estate investors. In addition to her successful business venture Edna taught Israeli Law at Cardozo Law School and took an active role in the Inter Agency Task Force on Israeli Arab Issues, an umbrella organization dedicated to educating the Jewish communities in the US about the problems of the Arab Israeli minorities in Israel. Edna returned to Tel Aviv with her husband in 2011. She currently runs her non-profit venture, established in 2008 – the Luna Art Fund (“LunArt”) for the promotion of Art and Advancement of Art Education in the Israeli Arab Sector. In addition to initiating and supporting free pre-college prep courses in art to Arab-Israeli high school graduates aspiring for a career in the visual arts, the program also provides study scholarships to some of its graduates.
Inbal Arieli
CEO
Inbal Arieli is the founder and head of the 8200 Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Program, leveraging the DNA and vast network of entrepreneurs and kep players in the high-tech industry who served at the Intelligence Corps 8200 Unit, for the benefit of new entrepreneurs, start-ups and NGOs. She is currently the CEO at True Synthesis.
Jerusalem Culture Unlimited
Jerusalem Culture Unlimited (JCU), seeks to strengthen new, emerging, and mid-size arts organizations in Jerusalem through professional development and organizational management training, education, and other resources.
Jerusalem Season of Culture
Jerusalem Venture Partners
Jerusalem Venture Partners’ is one of Israel’s leading venture capital companies, headed by MK Erel Margalit. Its investment strategy is spearheaded by a deep expertise in identifying opportunities from inception and growing them into global industry leaders. Through our theme-driven focus and strong network of strategic partners, we seek to stay ahead of the latest market trends and address the most relevant market needs. Our unique Centers of Excellence and dedicated team ensure we effectively deliver this added value directly to each of our current and prospective portfolio companies.
Joanna Landau
CEO at Vibe Israel
Joanna Landau was born in London and moved to Israel with her family when she was 5 years old. She returned briefly to the UK for high school at the Jewish boarding school Carmel College. After serving in the IDF as a paramedic, she read law at Cambridge University where she gained BA and MA degrees. Joanna also holds an MBA, cum laude, from the Herzlia Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. Joanna worked as a lawyer in the high-tech industry and established two Internet start-ups based in Tel Aviv. In November 2009, Joanna founded her first nonprofit, Kinetis, to change the way people think and feel about Israel. In December 2013, she established Vibe Israel, through which she has been promoting her vision since then.
Joanna is a governor of Tel Aviv University, a member of the International Education Committee of Taglit-Birthright, and a board member of the Brand Israel Group in New York. In 2013 she was voted by Forbes Israel as one of ten powerful women in Israel to look out for, and in 2015 she was shortlisted for the Rappaport Prize for a Change Making Woman. She lives in Tel-Aviv with her husband and three children.
Jonny Cline
CEO at UK Toremet
Jonny Cline was born in Manchester, England and moved to Israel at the age of 18. Having left his earlier career in organizational development in Hi-Tech, Jonny has spent the last decade in the Israeli Public Sector, as senior emissary for the Jewish Agency to Western Canada, and since then has been working in the Israeli third sector (philanthropy and non-profit). Jonny is the founder and director of UK Toremet, a UK charity charged with the Promotion of the Culture of Philanthropy, and able to serve as a donor advised fund for charitable donations from the UK to both local and foreign non-profits. Jonny founded the online arena Fundraiser.co.il as a pastime, aimed at advancing the level of professionalism in the Resource Development profession by means of open professional discussion and debate. More recently, he was also the Executive Director for the Israeli Fund for UNICEF.
Karen Brunwasser
Deputy Director at Jerusalem Season of Culture
Karen is a proud native of Philadelphia, but “is madly in love with her adopted hometown of Jerusalem”. Karen is the deputy director and one of the founders of the Jerusalem Season of Culture, a summer music festival that showcases Jerusalem as a vibrant, musical, and creative city. According to their website, “Jerusalem is the greatest font of creativity in the world. For us, Jerusalem plays the starring role, forming a backdrop for the performances and acting as our primary source of inspiration. Jerusalem is both the reason and the instigator. We are permanently attuned to the voices emerging from within this city, the harmonious and discordant alike, and, despite all the background noise, we try to extract from them an open and clear sound of creativity.” Karen cares deeply about the city’s civil society and hosts her own radio show, Cosmopolitan Jerusalem that profiles activists, artists, and entrepreneurs from Jerusalem.
Krembo Wings
Krembo Wings is the only youth movement in Israel for children and young adults with special needs, proving weekly social activities for young people with all types of mental and physical disabilities and their able-bodied peers. Krembo Wings was founded in 2002 and operates 20 branches across Israel.
Linda Streit
Founder & Educator
Linda Streit was born in London and immigrated to Israel in 1978. She recently retired after over 35 years of being a Drama Studies lecturer at the Department of English and American Literature at Tel Aviv University since 1985 and aims to make the rich world of international theatre come alive for Israeli youngsters. Linda is the co-founder of the Daniel Rowing Centre, a world-class rowing and nautical studies centre in Tel Aviv, built in memory of her son, Daniel, who died in a car crash in 1993. Streit is also a governor of Tel Aviv University since 1990, a member of the International Board of Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and of the Audit and Executive Committees of the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, the London Society for Theatre Research, the International Federation for Theatre Research, and the Israel national Golf team.
Mamanet
Established in 2005 Mamanet –mothers Cachibol- league is the largest social – sports league specifically for mothers in Israel today.
Today with thousand of mothers-players, in over 90 cities across Israel, Mamanet is now spreading in many countries such as Austria, Italy, Greece, Cyprus & the US with additional countries pending.
Mamanet Israel is cooperating with “Hapoel”- the largest Israeli sport organization.
“Mamanet has the potential to change the sports society and the life of women for the better”! Harry Bauer, President of CSIT: “This was my first statement after having experienced Mamanet and it remains absolutely valid”. CSIT is acting globally as an accelerator for this movement.
The most important goal from a sports perspective is to hold a large international Mamanet Championship as part of of the 5th CSIT World Sports Games 2017 in Riga.
In Mamanet every mother can no barrier of age heights or weight
***Women age of 30 and up can participate the league
Mamanet is the only sports league for mothers.Mamanet allows mothers to revive their younger days as athletes, or experience being part of a sports league for the first time. In mamanet mothers of students in participating schools represent their children school with sportsmanship and pride The league is based on children’s elementary, junior high and high schools,. Mothers bring back to school the championship cup to the school.
Mamanet is a combination of sports and community. In Mamanet- Mothers demonstrates school pride, good sportsmanship, friendly and professional competition, fair play & a positive physical activity.
Mamanet runs across all populations :secular ultra-orthodox immigrants, new comers etc
Naomi Bloch-Fortis
CEO at Jerusalem Season of Culture
Naomi Fortis is best known for her tenure as CEO of the world-famous modern dance troupe, Bat Sheva. She left this position to head up the Jerusalem Season of Culture, which she manages to this day. Naomi’s creative approach, and her ability to fuse different cultures and points of view, is the driving force behind the refocusing of the Jerusalem Season of Culture on the spirit of the people and sacredness of Jerusalem, hence the name that symbolizes the festival: Mekudeshet (Sacred). Naomi’s passion is to enable the expression of the clashes of cultures that Jerusalem so aptly represents, through unique works of art, clashing points of view and original collaborations.
NATAL
NATAL is an apolitical non-profit organization that specializes in the field of war and terror related to trauma. NATAL aims to advance the resiliency of Israeli Society through treatment, prevention, public awareness and research.
NU Campaign
NU Campaign is a global initiative connecting people to Israeli and global humanitarian causes through unique designer t-shirts. On the inside of every NU t-shirt, the story of the cause is printed by the wearer’s heart, so that you carry it close to you and become its ambassador every time you wear the shirt. Today NU Campaign t-shirts are sold in over 30 countries worldwide and is fast becoming a worldwide movement engaging today’s generation to get involved in global issues and make this world a better place.
Ofer Gutman
Director of Marketing and Sales
Ofer was born and raised in Tivon, a town in the north of Israel. He served as a fighter on a battleship in the Israel Defense Force, studied Law and as a practicing lawyer, worked with the Israeli Religious Action Center, dealing with civil rights in Israel and helping new Olim (immigrants) with their legal issues. Currently, he is the Director of Marketing and Sales of Masa Israel Journey.