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  • Ron Jacobsohn Attends the Opening of the Berlin Dayz

    Ron Jacobsohn Attends the Opening of the Berlin Dayz

    There is no doubt that we have come a long way in the last 60-years between the Germans and the Jews. And so, maybe, it should not come as a big surprise that Tel-Aviv is hosting in the next few weeks the “Berlin Dayz”, a cultural exchange between the two metropolitans, Tel-Aviv and Berlin.

    Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent:
    There is no doubt that we have come a long way in the last 60-years between the Germans and the Jews. And so, maybe, it should not come as a big surprise that Tel-Aviv is hosting in the next few weeks the “Berlin Dayz”, a cultural exchange between the two metropolitan whereas Berlin has sent its finest artists to come perform in Israel to tighten the already warm relationship between the two people.

    Andreas Michaelis, the German Ambassador to Israel, says the Berlin Dayz are the perfect opportunity to show how close Tel-Aviv actually is to Berlin.

    Andreas Michaelis, German Ambassador to Israel:
    It’s a wonderful opportunity to present Berlin to Tel-Aviv because there is a tremendous interest in the city of Berlin, we now estimate we have about 17,000 Israelis living in Berlin and the idea of the “Berlin Dayz” is to bring culture from Berlin to Tel Aviv, but also to re-import culture that was produced by Israelis in Berlin back to Israel. That’s the idea.

    Amos Dolev, the Head of the Cultural Department at the Goethe Institute in Israel, who organized the event claims that the moment Berlin is mentioned in Israel there immediately a lot of interest in the room.

    Amos Dolev, Head of Cultural Dept., Goethe Institute Tel-Aviv:
    The minute you mention Berlin it is a big hype in Tel-Aviv, at all in Israel and we’re taking this wave. Many, many Israelis are moving in and out of Berlin, a lot stay also, but there’s a lot movement going on. As a result of that a lot of co-productions and cooperations between German and Israeli artists have occurred over the years and that’s why we decided to bring a part of Berlin to Tel-Aviv.

    We wanted to find out from some of the participants what they thought of the concept of the Berlin Dayz.

    Idan Mansano. Tel-Aviv Resident:
    Now we are here with plenty of people, part of them are German and a lot of Israelis and I don’t know, I feel like I’m in a bar in Berlin now.

    Katja Michaelson, Tel-Aviv Resident:
    I was very excited because I have friends in Berlin and I visit Berlin three years ago and it was very amazing, such a city, such a beautiful people and I said: ok I’m going and I will enjoy here and I will meet new nice people.

    Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent:
    It looks like the Tel-Avivians are very happy to embrace the Berliners and give them a very warm Israeli welcome.
    For JN1 I am on Ron Jacobsohn from the Berlin Dayz launch party in the Port of Jaffa.

  • Ron Jacobsohn Attends the First IDC TedX

    Ron Jacobsohn Attends the First IDC TedX

    IDC in Herzliya decided they wanted to organize a TEDx event for their collage and so for one whole year they worked tirelessly and today finally the day has come to unveil their labor of love at TEDx IDC.

    Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent:
    IDC in Herzliya decided they wanted to organize a TEDx event for their collage and so for one whole year they worked tirelessly and today finally the day has come to unveil their labor of love at TEDx IDC.

    Israeli Olympic medalist, Arik Zeevi, felt challenged for his first ever speech in English and the fact that he had only 12-minutes to convey his ideas on-stage.

    Arik Zeevi, Olympic Medalist:
    I’m trying to grow in this field so I’m listening to some lectures in TED and I really like that. The main problem for me with TED is that it’s too short, you know, that you have to develop your idea very quickly and I’m used to, you know, like talk freely without having a structure of a lecture but I can learn from everything.

    Tom Peled, who created Bike for the Fight, after he lost his dad to cancer, feels that the platform of TED is the best way today to spread your message.

    Tom Peled, Bike for the Fight:
    It’s really a special event because it gives us, students the opportunity to share our stories and projects that we do with people all over the world, and I think the best platform today is the platform of TED, to spread your message.

    Merav Turel and Ilan Hazam of the Interdisciplinary Centre, in Herzliya, revile how the whole idea for the TEDx started.

    Merav Turel & Ilan Hazam, TEDx IDC Organizers:
    During many cafeteria, talks we just realized that we have a lot of students here, doing amazing social initiatives and we thought about what would be the biggest and the most beneficial platform that we can give them, so TEDx IDC is something both local and global, so for us it’s the perfect megaphone for this purpose.

    Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent:
    Eleven students at the And with an audience of close to a thousand people the inaugural event of TEDx IDC was heralded as a huge success as the organizers already are talking about next years event. For JN1 I am Ron Jacobsohn at the Port of Tel-Aviv.

  • Ron Jacobsohn Visits the First CES Trade Show in Israel

    Ron Jacobsohn Visits the First CES Trade Show in Israel

    Ron Jacobsohn Visits the First CES Trade Show in Israel

    CES – the biggest Consumer Electronics Show, which takes place once a year in Las Vegas, is making Aliyah and is proudly starting a mini-trade show in Israel. And as CEO Gary Shapiro told us, following the overwhelming response for the inaugural show, he will asses making next years show a lot bigger and open to the public.

  • Ron Jacobsohn Discovers the Latest Israeli Innovations at the WATEC Convention

    Ron Jacobsohn Discovers the Latest Israeli Innovations at the WATEC Convention

    The Israeli water technology industry has been around almost as long as the state of Israel, however in recent years since Israel’s entrance to the OECD the countries dominance worldwide has expanded dramatically. We are at the WATEC Convention in Tel-Aviv, which has become the biggest showcase of Israeli innovations to representative of over fifty-countries. So with close to billion dollars a year in revenues the Israeli water industry is becoming one of the biggest exporters of the country.

    Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent: The Israeli water technology industry has been around almost as long as the state of Israel, however in recent years since Israel’s entrance to the OECD the countries dominance worldwide has expanded dramatically. We are at the Watec convention in Tel-Aviv which has become the biggest showcase of Israeli innovations to representative of over 50-countries.

    Anthony Cox, Head of OECD’s Climate, Biodiversity & Water Division admits that since Israel has joined his organization it started sharing its water technology, which has had a very crucial impact on many of the member states.

    Anthony Cox, Head of OECD Climate, Biodiversity & Water Division: Israel is clearly a world leader in water technology, and since Israel joined the OECD they made a strong contribution to thinking more about the integration of policy with technology in the water sector. We’ve got a lot of work going on around how to insure the financial sustainability, the good governance of water, this is all critically linked to the role of technology and Israel played a strong role in trying to make those linkages clear.

    Adi Yefet Beeri from the governmental office NEWTech claims that the Israeli water industry earns around two-billion dollar a year.

    Adi Yefet Beeri, Director, Israel NEWTech: The Israeli water industry is quite a mature industry and very advanced, we can find some more mature companies and big companies like Mekorot which is a national company, Amiad, Bermad, and we can find very, very small companies, start-up companies like you can see here in the innovation pavilion. So, we’re talking about around 300-400 Israeli water companies and the sub-categories that those companies are dealing with are like.. It’s a very various area, I mean when we’re talking about water, we usually think about the tap that we open in our house and we some water. But, you can find here companies that are dealing with wastewater treatment, with water purification, even with security; we have to be secure with our water resources.

    Mapal Green Energy is an Israeli company that was chosen by the Palestinian Authority to help them solve their sewage problems in the streets of their cities and villages.

    Zeev Fisher, CEO, Mapal Green Energy: As we now, in the West bank there are many , many villages all over and they don’t have any solutions to the waste water treatment. Our technology, since it’s very simple, cost-effective both in terms of capital investment and operational cost, was chosen to be a solution for those villages in the rural communities.It’s true that it’s an Israeli company, but it’s a common problem, we’re living in the same place, and the sewage – it’ll actually contaminate not only the West Bank but also our territories as well and we’re living in the same one planet, so it’s a solution that will help all of us in this region; Jordan , Palestinian and Israelis.

    Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent: With close to billion dollars a year in revenues the Israeli water industry is becoming one of the big exporters of the country. For JN1 I am Ron Jacobsohn at Watech 2013 in Tel-Aviv.

  • Ron Jacobsohn Talks to Experts About the On-Going Peace Negotiations

    Ron Jacobsohn Talks to Experts About the On-Going Peace Negotiations

    Ron Jacobsohn Talks to Experts About the On-Going Peace Negotiations

    The direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians is about to enter its fourth month out of the nine, which secretary of state, John Kerry, has given both sides.  It is no a secret that the sides accepted the terms of these talks hesitantly and without much enthusiasm. We talked to some of our experts to see what is really happening behind the closed doors.