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News: January 2004
Hillel of Silicon Valley students make high-tech mission to Israel
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| On a mission: Brynn Speizer, Ron Peled, Rachel Bacola and Michael Avrukin will travel to Israel on a high-tech mission sponsored by Hillel |
Four students affiliated with Hillel of Silicon Valley will join 36 other Hillel students from across the nation for a technology mission to Israel, dubbed The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life's Business and Technology Mission. The students, Michael Avrukin, Rachel Bacola, Brett Shore and Ron Peled, will be accompanied by Hillel of Silicon Valley's Coordinator of Jewish Campus Life, Brynne Speizer, who will attend as a staff member.
The group is visiting Israel's Silicon Wadi leading high-tech and start-up companies, including Teva Pharmaceuticals, Vishay, Check Point, Israel Aircrafts Industries, NDS Israel and others. They will meet with students and researchers at the Technion and Weizmann institutes and with venture capital professionals. By exploring the accomplishments, challenges and career opportunities of private, public, start-up and established companies, students will gain an appreciation for Israel's growing economy, learn how Israeli companies strive to be internationally competitive, and how they attract investments in a difficult political and security environment.
Mission participants are also taking part in a unique student leadership summit in Jerusalem for 1,000 Jewish college student leaders. The summit is co-sponsored by Hillel, the Israel on Campus Coalition, the Jewish Agency, the Israeli Govern-ment and the World Union of Jewish Students. The central theme of the summit is "The Jewish People and Israel in the Next Century: Visions for the Future."
Upon their return, the Mission participants will be building
upon their Israel high-tech experience through the creation of the Hillel
High-Tech club for college students in the South Bay. The group has already
gotten a head start on the endeavor with a visit to the California -Israel
Chamber of Commerce's panel, "Silicon Value: Seizing Business
Opportunities in Israel and California." The High-Tech club was also
in attendance at 3COM CEO Eric Benhamou's visit to Congre-gation
Beth David, where he spoke about the future of high tech in Silicon Valley
and in Israel.
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