Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is celebrating his seventy-ninth birthday and later in the year it will be his tenth year as the head of the Palestinian Authority. JN1’s Ron Jacobsohn went to talk to some people who know the President intimately to find what we don’t know about him and does he have within him what it takes to be the one leader to make the peace between the Palestinians and the Israeli’s.
The board of governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI ), which consists of members from all five continents, are in Israel these days for their Management meetings, got a unique opportunity to hear first-hand from the people at the negotiating table about what is going on at the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations… And Ron Jacobsohn got an exclusive invite to participate in this closed door event.
JN’1 Ron Jacobsohn is on the set of the new international Israeli format, The Big Picture, which is shooting right here in Tel-Aviv an English language pilot with the renowned Australian host, Andrew Osher Günsberg. Most Israeli formats who are sold internationally internally have a proven track record on local television, the Big Picture is trying to do something new by first shooting an international pilot before it is offered for sale.
The current situation in the Ukraine took centre stage as diplomats from over 30 countries came to have coffee and strategize about the future of the country, as The 10th Bar Ilan Ambassadors Forum convened.
It’s hard to determine if the winning formula for the crisis in the Ukraine is going to come out of this forum, but what is certain is getting representatives from so many countries into one room is truly a step in the right direction.
The latest Israeli Start-Up Exit of the popular messaging app, Viber, to a Japanese company definitely symbolizes a change in the fact that not only big American and European companies are interested in Israeli technology. So we wanted to find out if the Start-Up Nation on a verge of an Asian invasion? So turns out Rakuten is just the first of the Asian companies who are now interested in Israeli technology. It is even more fascinating to follow this new trend as the reason most Asian companies decided to refrain from going into the Israeli market was the Arab Boycott which threatened them from losing a lot of revenues.