Since 2010, the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program has taken an active part in the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Israeli schools.
During this week, entrepreneurs are invited to primary, junior, and high schools across Israel to share what inspired them to start their own start-up and to open young students' eyes to the opportunities offered by the entrepreneurial path.
The week, which takes place every year in November, consists of thousands of meetings, workshops, and other activities all over the world to promote personal, social, and business entrepreneurship.
This week is sponsored by many of the world's leading entrepreneurs.
The goals of the week include exposing the youth to the concept of entrepreneurship and creating models to be applied in various sectors and situations.
As someone who encourages entrepreneurial and innovative thinking from a young age, Galit Zamler, the mastermind of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, assists schools that teach her programs and encourages them to mark this week.
This presentation was prepared in honor of GEW 2018: The Start-up Nation, More Than a Hundred Developments, Inventions, and Successes.
Here are some suggestions for this week and the year in general:
✓ Lectures by experienced entrepreneurs who share the entrepreneurial process they went through with students: how the idea was born, how the environment reacted to the idea, challenges along the way, successes, lessons learned, future plans, etc.
✓ Lectures by school alumni entrepreneurs.
✓ Students share their project ideas with classmates and get feedback.
✓ Students conduct observations in school, neighborhood, or city to identify needs and find solutions.
✓ Opening and closing ceremonies for the Entrepreneurship week with participation from the students, the municipality's educational system representatives, and school staff.
✓ Students learn about Israeli startups / inventions that changed the world / social enterprises they feel connected to and present them in the class.
✓ Entrepreneurship classes - some from the EFK program.
✓ Those who have already learned the EFK program can share their experience with students who will learn the program for the first time this year
✓ Experiential workshops and activities on entrepreneurship-related topics (also online).
✓ SpaceIL volunteers share with the students the efforts to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon and their vision.
✓ Students teach teachers, parents and the community about various topics/tools they are familiar with (TikTok, football rules, Discord...).
✓ School hackathons where students experience the entrepreneurial process.
✓ Online meetings with students learning entrepreneurship in other schools - such online meetings excite students, allow them to go beyond school boundaries and encourage them to talk about their school activities.
✓ Joint meeting on entrepreneurship with students abroad.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is celebrated this year between 12-19/11 in about 200 countries.
We shared this presentation with EFK program partners all over the world.
The presentation shows a few ways in which Israeli schools mark this week.
Around 200 countries celebrate GEW between 14-20/11, and Israel is one of them.
During this week, many events are taking place to promote the entrepreneurship path and encourage young people to choose it.
In honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2022, Galit Zamler has prepared a clip with colleagues from around the world.
We invite you to watch this and share it with your students.
Around 180 countries around the world will celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week during November 8-14, 2021.
The Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange hosted the opening event of Global Entrepreneurship Week
A festive event opened the Global Entrepreneurship Week in Israel at the opening of trading at the Stock Exchange.
Students representing various schools around the country attended the event, and distinguished speakers and entrepreneurs shared their entrepreneurial journeys with attendees.
Galit Zamler was also invited to lead a round table with students from the Entrepreneurship program at Ron Arad High School. We discussed whether we have skills from the entrepreneurship arena, how important they are, and to what extent they are required.
Galit then described her experience with the Scale Challenge of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program and how she transformed the program from a one-class initiative to an international entrepreneurship program.
Ussishkin School in Ramat HaSharon
Ussishkin School celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week every year with events that promote innovation and creativity among students.
Pedagogical deputy Miri Molcho led the week's events with the assistance of parents' leadership.
Workshops, creative thinking, initiating, acting, and dreaming were all part of the week's activities.
A parent at the school, Dovi Katz, gave a fascinating lecture on robotics and artificial intelligence to students in the sixth grade.
Third-grade students took part in an experiential workshop that includes making bracelets and hairstyles, conducted by Riley Shevach Kaczynski, a fifth-grader.
Under the guidance of teacher and program leader Ruby Alon, Spice Startups students from the sixth grade delivered activities about environmental and social issues related to space for students in third and fourth grades.
Students in 5th grade attended a hackathon event during which they had to create a product or come up with a venture that could be used in two or more ways. Students had to work in groups, make decisions, and stand in front of an audience under time pressure.
Four of the ten teams tackling the challenging task excelled in the following areas: creativity, eco-friendliness, winning presentation, and collaboration.
Along with the various events and activities, classes also focused on entrepreneurial and creative thinking.
Be'eri School in Netanya
Several entrepreneurs shared their experiences with the students at the Be'eri School in Netanya, run by Amalia Holvinger and uniqueness coordinator Anat Elovich:
Yuval Massuri, a volunteer in the Bereshit spacecraft project - SpaceIL, spoke to the students about the spacecraft and how they continue to be motivated after the first failure.
This year, as in previous years, the school also invited social entrepreneur Amit Saban to share the story of the association he founded, Youth for Youth, following a personal experience.
Ayala Geron is another entrepreneur who was first hosted at the school.
Ayala works in the high-tech industry. She invented and developed two board games that have gained international acclaim. Additionally, she is a social entrepreneur.
Rachel Avigad's "Good Point" project was also presented to the students. Rachel talked about the project's benefits to the dialogue between parents, teachers, and students in her online lecture.
Gvanim Junior High School in Kadima-Zoran
As part of the international hackathon with students from India and China, students in the Nachshon class at Gvanim Middle School in Kadima Zoran participated in another meeting of five this week.
De Shalit Junior High School in Rehovot
Entrepreneurship Week at De Shalit Middle School is organized by Reut Elsheich, who teaches the Youth Entrepreneurship Program in grades 7, 8, and 9.
Students in seventh and eighth grades attended two inspiring lectures:
"Save the world through our trash can" - Amit Mestechkin, consultant and lecturer on reducing food waste in businesses and households. The other lecture was "Green roofs to solar sheds in public space" by Ital Batzir Elsheich, a Rehovot City Council member who is responsible for sustainable development and innovation. The lecture enriched the students' knowledge about environmental initiatives around the world and in Rehovot.
Students have been introduced to entrepreneurship innovations, problems and solutions, and initiatives that can positively impact our environment.
David Bloch School in Tel Aviv
GEW was celebrated for the first time this year at the David Bloch School in Tel Aviv, under the direction of Sharon Shloman.
The following activities were planned for the school:
A number of entrepreneurs, some from the school neighborhood, gave lectures to students during the week.
The students held a take-and-give fair in addition to the entrepreneurs' lectures.
Gymnasia HaRealit High School in Rishon LeTsiyon
The Gymnasia HaRealit High School hosted an international hackathon with students from five countries: Israel, the Philippines, South Africa, Vietnam, and India.
The hackathon lasted five days during GEW 2021. Four of these were synchronous, and one was asynchronous work of students in mixed groups on their project ideas.
The following video concludes the hackathon:
Teddy Kollek High School in Jerusalem
This year, Teddy Kollek High School, led by Principal Sonia Refaeli, formulated its uniqueness of entrepreneurship and innovation. As such, it took an active part in Global Entrepreneurship Week. The week was planned and organized by the entrepreneurship coordinator Merav Maman.
During the week, the students heard lectures from guest entrepreneurs. Among them was Gal Benjamin Hamburger.
After the lecture, Gal wrote on Facebook as follows:
"Once again, it is a great privilege to reach young people and talk to them at eye level, about the Land of Israel and Zionism, about the startup nation and entrepreneurship, about how to get an idea and how to put it into practice, victories and failures, independent empowerment and development tools, aspirations, life ... Their feedback warmed my heart. I wish we would only have a good influence. Amen!"
The Zbenko project team gave an active lecture to Teddy Kollek High School students on financial education.
The students enjoyed both the lecture and the game that taught them some financial terms, which are essential to know.
Throughout the week, the school held a series of hackathons so that each class could participate. In the end, the winning teams from the entire hackathon took part in a summit hackathon led by Galit Zamler.
The school summarized the week as follows:
"We ended Entrepreneurship Week with excitement, great experiences, inspiration, and a sense of pride in the students.
Thanks to everyone who took part!
This is the way education should be done!"
Ron Arad High School in Rehovot
Ayelet Haimovich, the entrepreneurship teacher, organized an Inspiring Day for 7th-10th grade students as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Social and business entrepreneurs shared their entrepreneurial journeys, creativity, thinking outside the box, identifying social needs, and essential and exciting social ventures with students.
Gal Benjamin Hamburger, who later wrote the following, came to the school as a lecturer:
I gained a mitzvah again through Galit Zamler, who connected me with the Ron Arad High School, where over a hundred curious students awaited me.
Yahalom Bukai, a major in reserve, gave an inspiring lecture on the subject of "Plastic Ball" - about a green footprint and the changes and habits it has brought about.
Tal Shapira Elyakim spoke with the students about "Ecological Social Initiatives."
180 countries around the world marked the Global Entrepreneurship Week between 15-22 of November. The same in Israel with a hybrid, virtual, and face-to-face event.
In Israel, too, as every year, schools celebrated this week with a variety of events, lectures by guest entrepreneurs, workshops, and inspiring entrepreneurship classes.
This year, subject to Covid-19 restrictions, all the events were online.
After years in which Galit Zamler has encouraged schools to mark this week, this year, for the first time that the number of events was so great that Galit Zamler no longer tracked and wrote about them. It is certainly a good reason for her to be pleased.
Galit Zamler, personality, has been invited to several schools as a guest lecturer.
She also conducted a major event during that week with two great women. This is a virtual hackathon for teenagers on the subject of health, medicine, and welfare. The hackathon was held over the Vickathon platform that Galit has developed.
A collection of photos from this week's events:
Israel and about 170 other countries marked the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2019.
This year, pupils from Vietnam who are studying the program Entrepreneurship for Kids also joined the celebration.
Participants in the EFK Vietnam
Participants in the entrepreneurial program for children in Vietnam and their parents participate in an entrepreneurship workshop accompanied by businessmen, who share their insights as entrepreneurs with the children.
Guest entrepreneur lecture at A.D Gordon School in Kfar Saba
Ariel Kedem, the founder of the social enterprise Africa 2030, told the students about the goals of the venture, which is designed to help the Congo population.
Ariel also talked at the Be'eri School in Netanya.
Celebrating entrepreneurship at Be'eri School in Netanya
For several years now that the Be'eri school in Netanya is marking the Global Entrepreneurship Week led by Anat Alovich, the vice principal.
Sharon Guy, the inventor of the "Dafni" hair straightening brush
Sharon shared with the pupils how, from her own personal need to style curly hair, she invented a brush that straightens the hair.
In spite of a competitive market, the "Dafni" hair straightening brush is considered to be the best.
The pupils learned from Sharon's lecture the following:
- Do not give up on dreams
- It takes time to carry out initiatives
- And each one can initiate and invent
Itamar Smadja, a judo coach
Itamar Smadja is the brother of Oren Smadja, and just like him, he's in the field of the judo training for kids and teens.
The pupils' insights from Itamar's lecture were:
- Never give up
- A person should have faith in himself and believe that he's capable
- Even if we fail in the beginning, it doesn't mean we won't succeed later
Amit Saban, A social entrepreneur
The students listened to Amit Saban's lecture, a social entrepreneur who founded as a result of his own personal experience, the "Youth to Youth" foundation, which helps give an initial response to shaming and bullying cases.
The pupils shared what they learned from Amit's lecture:
- If a child experience harassment, he has someone to turn to or tell.
- Never give up even if you are going through difficult times.
- At any age, you can volunteer and also initiate stuff.
Ariel Kedem, Founder of Africa 2030
5th-6th graders listened to Ariel Kedem's lecture, a social entrepreneur that founded the non-profit organization Africa 2030.
Ariel told the pupils about the venture that operates for the sake of the population and nature in Congo, Africa.
Ariel tells in his lecture about the beauty of Congo alongside its poverty and starvation, and how also children in Israeli schools can help the citizens over there.
All it takes is to collect bottles and cans that you can get your deposit back for, contact Ariel, and he will make sure the bottles are collected.
The name Africa 2030 represents Ariel's ambition to set a deadline to achieve the organization's goals.
Entrepreneurship Week at "De Shalit" Junior High School
"De Shalit" Junior High School is teaching the "Entrepreneurship for Kids and Youth" program led by Yosefa Salomon and Shai Abramovich.
The students listened to a lecture on the subject of patents from a mother of one of the pupils in school.
The "HaDekel" School in Karmiel
Osnat Ben Yehuda, Director of the HaDekel School in Karmiel, and the entrepreneurial team invited guest entrepreneurs who told the students about their experience as entrepreneurs.
Lily Amichai - English teacher and guest entrepreneur
Lily is an English teacher at the school and she told the students about the family falafel venture in the Camun settlement.
The family falafel venture started thanks to her son when he was twelve years old. Today, the family falafel has become a social pastime for children and adults every Friday at noon.
Hadas Ofir - Founder of Meyda-le
Hadas Ofir stands behind the Meyda-le venture, which offers unique puzzles for children.
Hadas has developed cards with puzzles on various topics for children, parents, and anyone who wants to enjoy the game that enriches the knowledge and encourages curiosity and reading.
Simon Goldberg, Bank Hapoalim
Simon Goldberg works at the Bank Hapoalim, and she told the students how a large organization also constantly innovates.
The entrepreneurs Reef Har-Even and Lidor Sabah
The entrepreneurs Reef Har-Even (18) and Lidor Sabah (23) set up the "Carpentry" event complex.
From an early age, Reef started building karting cars and then held events in his home yard. Later, he evolved and built the carpentry shop in a venue that belonged to his carpenter grandfather.
The Entrepreneurship Week events at "Hayovel" School in Ashdod
Pnina Weinstein, the "Hayovel" school principal in Ashdod wrote the following:
"Global Entrepreneurship Week is part of an international project that aims to encourage young entrepreneurs to choose the entrepreneurial course as a way to achieve personal and social development.
Dear community,
I'm proud to inform you that this is the third year "Hayovel" school would take part in marking the event within the "Entrepreneurship for Kids" program.
Our 5th-6th graders learn this program, in which the pupils are being exposed to the world of entrepreneurship through lectures, debates, slideshows, video segments, and fun activities.
They understand who's a successful entrepreneur, getting to know business ventures, social ventures, and so on, and mainly, getting inspired to develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
During the Entrepreneurship Week, entrepreneurs will arrive and give lectures in front of 4th-6th graders.
Representatives from the 6th grade will be giving talks to the lower classes and will explain to them the subject of entrepreneurship.
Parents and grandparents who are interested in taking an active role in a lecture in front of the pupils are invited to sign-up with the class tutor.
Kind regards,
Pnina Weinstein
The School principal"
Meir Drillings - Social entrepreneur
Meir is a serial social entrepreneur.
In a lecture in front of 5th graders, he told about the success of the venture "Super Lions Team" in Lod.
The "Super Lions" is a sports team for kids from underprivileged families, and in the team setting, the kids are empowered trough the method that Meir developed.
The school's pupils showed a lot of interest in the venture and wanted to take part in it.
Galit Zamler- A business and social entrepreneur
4th graders heard from Galit the story behind the Entrepreneurship for Kids program, how it evolved from one single course she gave in her son's class, when he was a 6th grader, to an international venture.
The pupils understood that every person can be an entrepreneur and that an entrepreneur needs determination and courage to think differently from others.
ORT Shlomi School
Ronni Shtekler is an English teacher and entrepreneur, along with her pupils mark every year the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
This year, Ronni has switched to teaching full time at ORT Shlomi School and exposed her students to that week's events.
Also, the students of the gifted class listened to a lecture from a guest entrepreneur.
Guest entrepreneur - Sharon Goldbert
Sharon is the accelerator executive of MaofTech in Tiberias and Afula, and the subject of entrepreneurship is very close to her heart.
The students learned from the lecture that there are three types of projects and that you need to fit the wanted product/service to the market in order for it to be successful.
Ronni asked the pupils to summarize what they learned from the lecture, and since she's an English teacher, the pupils wrote the summary in English.
Marking the Entrepreneurship Week at the ORT Urban D Junior High School
ORT Urban D Junior High School Junior High School in Modiin headed by Neta Sternshein joined for the first time this year to the list of schools that are marking the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Guest entrepreneur- Daniel Weil
The pupils listened to Daniel Weil's lecture, a serial entrepreneur, and an entrepreneurship lecturer at the Kiryat Ono Academic College.
Variety of Events at the "Ussishkin" School
The Ussishkin school is participating for the third year in the GEW, and this year the school marked the week in a variety of activities, including all the school's grades.
Among the activities, there were lectures by entrepreneurial parents and family members to 1st-3rd graders.
The activities at the Ussishkin school were organized by Miri Molcho, a pedagogical deputy at the school.
Guest entrepreneur - Meirav Reich
Mierav spoke about the integration of kids with special needs within the venture "The Children's Race -We're All Equal."
The lecture introduced the pupils to an unusual social project, which is based on the initiative of the school's alumni, about accommodating the other who's different and integrating him/her into society.
Presenting technological ventures
6th graders presented in front of 4th-5th graders the technological ventures that they initiated the previous year with the guidance of their science teacher Rubi Alon.
The younger students heard the explanations and learned about the entrepreneurial process behind the ventures.
Then, they wrote down their impressions of the process and the final products.
This session was done in preparation for the process they themselves will go through during this year.
Nimrod Yesharim - School's alumni and young entrepreneur
5th-6th graders listened to a lecture by Nimrod Yesharim.
Nimrod is alumni of the Ussishkin school and today a freshman at "Kalman" junior high school.
The subject of Nimrod's lecture is "From a dream to reality." In this lecture, he told the students how he got to fulfill his dream of becoming a DJ and how, from a kid's dream, he started a successful financial business.
The "Bereshit" Spacecraft Project
4th-6th graders listened to lectures by SpaceIL volunteers about the entrepreneurial process that preceded the lunch of "Bereshit", the morning after, and about future plans.
The GEW events at the Ron Arad High School in Rehovot
This is the first year that the Ron Arad High School marks the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
During the week 7th graders and 11th and 12th graders who are studying entrepreneurship with their teacher Itzik Ben Maimon listened to lectures by guest entrepreneurs.
Oren Yagev - A lecture on the subject of: "Starting an international company"
Oren is one of the cofounders of One Hour Translation, an international company for professional translation.
Galit Zamler- A lecture about the subject of: "Challenging but possible"
The pupils at the Ron Arad High School who are taking entrepreneurship classes, know about the "Entrepreneurship for Kids and Youth Program", therefore Galit has involved them in the evolution stages of the program from the moment the idea was conceived up until it becoming the Global Entrepreneurship program.
The lecture combined tips for the beginner entrepreneur, to give the teenagers the feeling that they too can leave their mark.
Within the meeting with Galit Zamler, the students presented to her their ideas for ventures and received feedback that will assist them in going ahead with the projects.
This week's events at Rothberg High School in Ramat Hasharon
Roi Hamam, the multi-disciplinary course coordinator at Rothberg High school in Ramat Hasharon, has planned for the students an entrepreneurship week filled with activities.
In preparations for this week Roi wrote:
"Entrepreneurship education from an early age is possible and correct when the conception is that many of the entrepreneur's skills can be instilled.
In the tenth-grade, we will be introduced to who an entrepreneur is, we will focus on the entrepreneur as an opportunities identifier, and we will meet a variety of entrepreneurs for conversations, inspiration, and acquiring entrepreneurship tools.
In the eleventh-grade, we will hold for the second year the "Rothberg Hackathon," and at its end, the chosen startups will win an accompaniment to the National Startup Competition.
In the twelfth-grade a "Horse and a wagon" Wood Workshop will take place and will engage in creativity, thinking out of the box and entrepreneurship through wood games.
I wish all of us to have an interesting, teachable, and fun week."
Schedule GEW at Rothberg High School
The Guest Entrepreneurs at Rothberg High School:
Kobi Blank- a lecture on the subject of: "Entrepreneurship in life and in the medical device field"
Kobi is the CEO and founder of Blank-Innovations, a development manager in medical device and Hi-Tech companies.
Kobi is a partner and an entrepreneur in the medical device field, together with a team of engineers, doctors, businessmen, and many others who brought products that changed and will change the medical field.
Their developments have made a significant improvement in the catheterization field and the finding and killing of tumor cells.
Furthermore, their inventions have helped in restoring vision to the blind, spine treatments, etc.
Yafit Efrat - Title of the lecture: "The Lion and the Rooster," the story of a social venture"
Yafit is a social entrepreneur and the founder of the social-business venture called "The Lion and the Rooster."
This is a venture in the culinary field, which is aimed to allow youth at risk to feel meaningful and valuable and getting the required tools to fit into society.
In her lecture, Yafit explains how come that after a "standard" life of engineering and business studies and project management in Hi-Tech, she took the experience and knowledge she acquired and made a career change into the world of social therapy?
She shares with the students what has worked and what didn't? And what are the similarities and differences between social venture and business venture?
Yafit explains how, with the help of passion and a will to change things, you can become entrepreneurs, even if you are not born like one of them.
Galit Zamler - A lecture on the subject of: "Entrepreneurship - challenging but possible"
Galit is a business and social entrepreneur. A pioneer in the field of entrepreneurship education in schools.
Galit has developed an entrepreneurship program for kids and youth that is being taught in dozens of schools in Israel and around the world.
Eylon Sorek - The subject of the lecture: "The challenges of an entrepreneur who establishes and runs a startup company."
Eylon is the founder and CEO of the Skyx company, which develops technology for planning and piloting a modular swarm of autonomous drones for spraying.
The economic and environmental innovation in the solution that the company is developing comes from the dramatic reduction in the use of pesticides and as a result of the cooperation between these drones.
This is the third startup company that Eylon has founded.
Assaf Frenkel - A lecture on the subject of: "Hi-Tech Entrepreneurship"
Assaf is active in the world of startups, investments, merges, and purchases for over 20 years now.
Today, Assaf is an entrepreneur and the CEO of the company "SeeTrue.AI." In the past, he invested in Gemini and Moonscape venture capital, and he was the CEO of an artificial intelligence startup "Mybitat" and a business unit manager at NICE.
Celebrations this week at the Sadot School in Pardes Hanna Karkur
All of the Sadot school pupils are taking part in this week's events. The pupils participate in a variety of workshops and lectures.
Every year, the school holds a ceremony about entrepreneurship in the presence of all of the pupils.
The schedule for the Entrepreneurship Week at the Sadot school:
This is an original song written by Lilach Evron, especially for the opening ceremony of the Global Entrepreneurship Week at the school.
The song tells a little about the social initiatives and the ventures of the pupils.
Yad Mordechai school in Bat-Yam
The pupils of the "Yad Mordechai" school in Bat Yam are marking again this year the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
In charge of organizing the GEW and inviting the guest entrepreneurs is Moran Sofer, the coordinator of entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurship Week was opened with a festive ceremony of 4th graders and in the presence of all the school's pupils.
In the ceremony, inventions and developments of famous entrepreneurs were mentioned.
Dov Moran- A serial entrepreneur
Dov Moran sent a recorded video message with greetings and helpful bits of advice for the school's pupils:
"I'm Dov Moran, the inventor of the DOK.
This invention was developed with the help of a lot of good people and with a lot of effort.
I'm very proud of this invention.
You may think I was lucky or that I was a genius, but I wasn't.
I was a pretty good student. I worked very hard and put a lot of effort.
There were many obstacles along the way. There were things I tried and didn't come out well.
It was hard.
The road to success wasn't easy.
But when you succeed, it's a wonderful and great thing, and worth the effort of the learning journey and the persistence.
I wish you all to be good entrepreneurs, be good creators, and, most importantly, be humans.
I wish that you'll make a real value to yourselves, to your family, to the people of Israel and all world."
Meir, The founder of "Fat Meir's kitchen"
Every year Meir arrives at Yad Mordechai's school in Bat Yam and tells the pupils how the idea to establish "Fat Meir's kitchen" was born.
This year, 1st graders listened to Meir, telling how the kitchen provides sandwiches for the good of children from disadvantaged families.
Also, children can come and eat a hot meal at the kitchen's complex.
Noam Horev- A composer and songwriter
The school's students met the creator, composer, and songwriter Noam Horev.
His personal story inspired them.
The pupils identified with the important message of the story, "Ziona only has one wing" and engaged in an activity on the subject.
Noam sent a video to the pupils with the following message:
"Never, never, never stop believing in yourselves, don't stop trying and fulfilling your dreams.
I, too, was once a kid at your age, and I had many dreams, and I didn't give up.
I went all the way with what I believe in, and in the end, my dreams came true.
I truly wish you a successful road filled with challenges, and I'm counting on you that you will overcome any obstacle."
Yaniv Orbach- A business and personal coach
Yaniv gave an empowering lecture in front of 5th graders about coaching, decision making, and executing them.
Einat Shamir- Yarn crafter
Einat accompanies the "Entrepreneurship for Kids" program for a couple of years as a guest entrepreneur.
This year Einat delivered a workshop for the 1st graders in the school, the pupils had a lot of fun and got a sense of capability.
Pnina Joy Nehaisi of the TopEduGames company
2nd graders met with Pnina Joy Nehaisi of the TopEduGames company, who explained to the pupils how you could transform the learning to experience through familiar computer games such as Minecraft and Roblox.
Galit Zamler - Founder of EFK program
Galit Zamler shared the developing process of the "Entrepreneurship for Kids" program with the 3rd graders, and together they came to the insight that there is no connection between excelling in school to the ability to succeed in the entrepreneurial field.
Anat Farkash - The founder of "Tom's Orchard"
Anat Farkash is the mother of the late Tom Farkash, who died during the Second Lebanon War.
Anat told the pupils about the project she established to honor his memory on the Carmel beach called "Tom's Orchard."
The Orchard is a magical place that serves as an experiential learning center to impart knowledge and values for environment preservation and co-existence between man and nature.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2018 was held in about 170 countries around the world and in Israel on during November 11th-18th.
A clip summarizing the events of GEW 2018 in schools (in Hebrew):
"Ussishkin" Elementary School, Ramat HaSharon
Teacher Miri Molcho leads an entrepreneurship course in the school for students in grades 5th and 6th.
During Entrepreneurship Week, the students of the "Young Entrepreneurs" course for grades 5-6 get to hear a lecture from Ms. Nava Swersky Sofer standing at the head of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya's unique entrepreneurship program.
Nava focused on sources for the creation of a project - necessity, constraints, mistakes, ideas and more. She also talked about the reasons for success and failure of projects.
In addition, students went on tours in the city, in order to participate in brainstorming sessions that will help solidify ideas for projects they will develop during the school year.
Amirim Primary School, Ramat HaSharon
"Amirim" elementary school in Ramat HaSharon led by Lilach Hefetz participated in this week for the first time.
The school held 3 hackathons with the theme of social entrepreneurship, and the students listened to a lecture by SpaceIL about the launching of the first Israeli spacecraft to the moon.
The volunteers of "Krembo Wings" told the students about their social project.
"Be'eri" Elementary School, Netanya
"Be'eri" Elementary School in Netanya, run by Amalia Holbinger, continues to participate in GEW this year as well. This year, entrepreneurs from different fields came to share their knowledge with students, and inspire them.
Entrepreneurship coordinator Anat Elovitch is in charge of the weekly schedule and for inviting the entrepreneurs.
The students opened the week with a ceremony.
Morris and Itamar Samadja
Morris is the entrepreneur who brought Judo to Israel. He trained his children Oren and Itamar who went on to win Olympic medals in Judo, and together they train many children around the country in the martial art.
Like all entrepreneurs who visited Be'eri, Morris and Itamar received merit certificates from the students, for taking the time to inspire them.
Amit Saban
Amit Saban was exposed as a child to the social media shaming phenomenon, and out of this struggle grew a young man who works to fix social injustices, and aids youth with dealing with social boycotts and online harm.
Amit founded the "Youth for Youth" charity and is an activist of the Labor Party.
Maayan Kapach
Maayan Kapach came to tell the students about her book "Adventures in the Cauliflower Garden", and the process she went through in order to bring it to print so that everyone can enjoy it.
Sharon Guy-Rabi
Sharon Guy-Rabi invented the "Dafni" ceramic straightening hairbrush following her own personal need. Her invention was adopted by the Electra Company, who took it upon themselves to market the hairbrush domestically and internationally.
"Bachar" Elementary School, Even-Yehuda
Students at the Bachar School in Even Yehuda under the direction of Eti Hodida heard lectures from guest entrepreneurs, some of them parents of students at the school.
The lecture coordination was done by the school's event coordinator Natalie Samipur.
The students participated in workshops to invent innovative products.
Yael Feder
Yael Feder initiated a kindergarten on wheels and told the children about it.
Yael Feder concluded her lecture with the following words: innovate, lead, influence! The sky is the limit.
Galit Zamler
Grade 4 students in Bachar Elementary School participated in a lecture by Galit Zamler on the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program. During the lecture, students got to learn about some of the characteristics of an entrepreneur, as well as about resisting peer pressure, independent thinking, critical thinking and team work.
HaIrisim Elementary School, Karmiel
English teacher Ronni Shtekler leads the Global Entrepreneurship Week in her school "HaIrisim" in Karmiel.
Ronni told students about Global Entrepreneurship Week, about herself as an entrepreneur and developer of an English remedial education kit and gave the students a workshop on creativity from the variety of classes by the EFK program.
The students completed their drawing using their imagination, and the results were surprising.
De Shalit junior high school, Rehovot
7th and 8th grade students have entrepreneurship classes for two weeks, conducted by teacher Shai Abramovich and supported by social coordinator Yosefa Solomon.
The students met entrepreneur Zvi Tubul to talk about Artificial Reality.
Zvi is the co-owner the company Tower-Tag.
Ha'Dekel Elementary School, Karmiel
Ha'Dekel school in Karmiel, run by Osnat Ben-Yehuda, joined this year for the first time in participating in GEW.
Ilan Zusman
Ilan Zusman lectured to Grade 2 and Grade 6 students about wind vanes.
Ronni Shtekler
Ronni Shtekler is an English teacher, specializing in remedial and innovative education. Roni combined her experience and skills and developed an English remedial education kit called "Learning English and Remembering". The students heard how this idea was born, as well as the challenges Roni faced and her successes.
Emi Aviv
Emi Aviv is a member of the "Connecting to the Soul" organization and presented the social project to the school's students.
"HaYovel" Elementary School, Ashdod
"HaYovel" Elementary School in Ashdod, run by Pnina Weinstein, participated in Global Entrepreneurship Week for a second year now.
The guest entrepreneur lecture schedule was coordinated and organized by teacher Nili Arama.
Galit Zamler
Students of "HaYvel" in Ashdod are part of the EFK program, but only know Galit by name.
Throughout the week, Grade 6 students met with Galit, heard the story of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program and learned about the difficulties that an entrepreneur faces in the entrepreneurship process, their motivation to find solutions and overcome the difficulties, the importance of team work, and the ability to resist peer pressure.
Shimon Abutbul
Shimon Abutbul explained his own project - a safety helmet for construction workers.
Young Entrepreneurs
Students who are young entrepreneurs from the Mekif high school in Ashdod presented the students of HaYovel School their invention: TowelBag.
The students of "HaYovel" in Ashdod heard a lecture during the week about autonomous vehicles and their influence on our lives.
Nurit Topaz
Nurit Topaz, a social entrepreneur in a lecture to students
HaYovel School, Modi'in
HaYovel Elementary School run by Ronit Revizada celebrates this week for the first time this year.
Deputy Director Ofra Almagor Neumann ran the schedule for this week.
During the week, guest lecturers from within and outside the community came to the school and inspired the students. The students presented their work on entrepreneurship in the field of science. The school connected the concept of entrepreneurship to a key figure in Israeli culture - David Ben-Gurion. .
The students heard a lecture on initiatives in space exploration and on an Israeli initiative to simulate life on Mars.
Lena Telman
Lena Telman is a toy designer and developer. In a workshop for 2nd grade students, she shared her process and together everyone created the doll Columbus.
Yad Mordechai school, Bat-Yam
The "Yad Mordechai" school in Bat Yam, led by Avivit Mistriel, marks the GEW every year.
The week is being planned and organized by Orly Maimon, the entrepreneurial coordinator.
The week began with a ceremony in which the students held a performance and told about inventions and innovation.
Experienced entrepreneurs came and told students in an experiential way about their projects.
Einat Shamir
Einat is a string artist and has developed creative kits for all ages. Einat told the first and second graders about her project, and everyone participated in an activity with strings.
Meir Biton
Meir Biton who is behind the "Story Balls" project, presented the unique balls he developed for the students, who then got to play with them and hear the unique sounds they make.
Galit Zamler
Galit Zamler discussed with Grade 3 students the characteristics of an entrepreneur, told them how the EFK program developed over the years, and the students then played a game which requires coordination, team work, and focus on the goal.
Social Entrpereneur
The students heard a lecture about social entrepreneurship and engineering
Fat Meir
Meir, who founded "Fat Meir's Kitchen", arrives every year to "Yad Mordechai" school and tells the students about the sandwiches he makes in his kitchen and sends to schools for kids who "forgot" to bring a sandwich.
Pnina Avraham
Pnina is the mother of one of the students in the school, and explained in a lecture about the world of entrepreneurship.
"North Star" Elementary School, Ashkelon
"North Star" Elementary School run by Sarry Plum, is participating for the first time this year.
Grades 4-6 students heard lectures from guest entrepreneurs.
Lior Vaknin
Lior told the students about his love for plants ever since he was a child. When he turned 40, he went back to his first love and together with his children they started growing fruits and vegetables on the roof of their house. The search for ways to grow many plants in small spaces gave birth to the "Havitutim" project - barrels in which you can grow up to 70 plants together.
Galit Zamler
Galit Zamler told the students about the beginning of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, the difficulties she faced, how she overcame them, the expansion to many schools around the country, and then to the US, China and Hong Kong.
Alumim junior high school, Ramat HaSharon
Oren Yagev
Oren is one of the founders of the company "One Hour Translations", one of the most successful companies in the field of personal and professional translation. Oren told students about how he and his partners thought of the need for translation services online, and how they started with a small scale version and gradually grew.
Rothberg High School, Ramat HaSharon
This year marks the second time Rothberg High School students take part in Global Entrepreneurship Week, encourages by Galit Zamler.
Roey Hamam is in charge of the lecture schedule and booking the guest lecturers, and is grateful for the guests' willingness to come and speak to the students.
At the entrance to the school, a sign stating the week's events was erected:
Throughout the week, students got to know what an entrepreneur is, focused on the entrepreneur as an identifier of opportunities, and grades 10-12 students met a number of entrepreneurs foe discussions, inspiration, and acquisition of entrepreneurship tools.
Alongside these encounters, 11th grade students held a Hackathon, which was the first of its kind in the school, at the end of which selected startups will get to compete for prizes in a national startup competition.
Among the guest entrepreneurs in Rothberg High School:
Zuri King
Zuri King, an Israeli pioneer of social innovations, with an emphasis on giving to others, locally and abroad. He recently published the book "From Here, You're On Your Own".
Galit Zamler
Galit Zamler develops a youth and EFK program that is implemented in dozens of schools in Israel, as well as in the USA, China and Hong Kong. Galit shares in her lecture the challenges of entrepreneurship, as well as the insights from it - anyone can do it, but the risk needs to be calculated.
Sarit Soccary Ben Yochanan
Sarit Soccary Ben Yochanan is a corporate venture capital manager in DelekUS - her lecture dealt with entrepreneurship and funding in the fields Life Sciences and Energy.
Ofer Shaked
Ofer Shaked is one of the founders and the technological manager of SCADAfence. Ofer shared his experience with the students and explained how to start a startup company.
Prof. David Mendelovich
Prof. David Mendelovich spoke to students about the transition from the university's support system to the jungle of entrepreneurship.
Ronen Kalmanson
Ronen Kalmanson is an entrepreneur and startup investor. He was a partner in the founding of a number of companies, some of which were sold through exit planning. Ronen shared tips for entrepreneurs based on his vast experience.
Gilad Gans
Gilad had upwards of 30 years of experience in various technological fields, activism with youth in the field of entrepreneurship, and entrepreneur consultation. His Lecture dealt with the aspects of failure and success of startup projects.
Ofira Eliav
Ofira is the manager of the Fintech center at the Hebrew University. She helps entrepreneurs in various fields through all stages of the process. Ofira shared her experience in the Fintech entrepreneurship and financial innovation fields with the students.
Lior Shalev
Lior is a social entrepreneur, community founder, founder of SocialTechIL and CEO of Infogan - a social network meant to connect parents and kindergartens, and is a manager in numerous startup companies integrating technology in agriculture and medicine. Lior shares his world view with the students in his lecture "Entrepreneurship - It can be done differently".
Sadot Elementary School, Pardes-Hana Karkur
"Sadot" Elementary School principal Talmor Kloss, wrote to the teaching staff in anticipation of Entrepreneurship Week:
"'Sadot' Elementary School has embedded in its foundations uniqueness in the field of entrepreneurship education.
We instill a culture of entrepreneurial thinking that allows for learning that is comprised mainly of value, participation and relevancy, in accordance with the 21st century learner's skills.
We believe that entrepreneurship-based learning allows for breakthrough teaching/learning, improves achievements and leads towards excellence.
Entrepreneurship education encourages positive and independent thinking, recognition of opportunities, belief in yourself and your abilities, determining goals and persisting until they are achieved, taking responsibility, creativity, and more.
Every year in November the "Global Entrepreneurship Week" is held, in which millions across the globe take part.
The goals of Entrepreneurship Week include exposing youth to the idea of entrepreneurship and creating role models from different genders and ethnicities. Entrepreneurship Week invites youth all over the world to incorporate innovation, imagination and creativity into their lives, and provides them with inspiration to "think big", turn ideas into reality, and make a mark.
We are participating in this week for the fifth year! The students will meet entrepreneurs from different fields that will tell their entrepreneurship story. We'll hear about hopes and disappointments, failures and successes, and focus on the characteristics needed for an entrepreneur and how to encourage those in our children.
It will be interesting!"
The schedule, coordination and organization were handled by Liz Drori, entrepreneurship coordinator in the school.
Students from grades 1-3 opened the this week with a school ceremony.
All students will participate in lectures by guest entrepreneurs from various fields, and end the week with an O.D.T activity.
A visit to Space Pharma
The students of Grade 5 went on a tour of Space Pharma, the Israeli space agency, and learned about new technologies in the space field.
Dror Tamir
Dror Tamir told students about the Food Tech industry, and how grasshoppers can be a highly nutritious food source. There were some brave students that even tasted some grasshopper.
Elad Tzon
Elad Tzon in a lecture to 4th grade students about independence from a young age.
Dani Barko
Dani Barko in an engaging lecture on the subject of artificial reality and augmented reality. Even Talmor, the principal, gave it a try.
Liat Zivan
Liat Zivan told the students about a project she leads, cold Plate My Meal, whose goal is to get children used to eating healthy nutritious food and help the, acquire correct eating habits.
Galit Zamler
Galit Zamler shared her journey with the EFK program with the students. The lecture included an engaging activity on the subject of teamwork.
Liron Schneider
Liron Schneider told students about the natural cosmetics products of the brand Lavido.
Michal Sade and Ahmed Juha
Michal Sade and Ahmed Juha in a lecture to 5th grade students about community entrepreneurship and its meaning.
Pazit Ben Shmuel
Pazit Ben Shmuel in a lecture to 5th grade students about creativity as a way of life.
Shai Shen-Or
Shai Shen-Or explained the immune system to the students.
The Global Entrepreneurship Week was marked on November 12th-19th, 2017.
Hebrew Academy School, Miami Beach, Florida
This year, for the first time, the Jewish school Hebrew Academy joined the schools in Israel and marked the Global Entrepreneurship week in an online lecture of Ofer Forrer, a volunteer of the Israeli spacecraft.
In his lecture, Ofer explains about the competition sponsored by Google, how Israeli joined this competition and its chances of winning it.
Furthermore, in his lecture, Ofer Shares the development process of the first Israeli Spaceship to ever land on the moon aiming to inspire the students in Hebrew Academy - and invoke interest in science, space and technology.
Fourth graders made a video "If I were an inventor ..." that presents their lovely ideas for projects:
This is the third year that the "Ilanot" School marks the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Sharon Mualem was among the guest entrepreneurs who came to the school. Sharon told the students about the social project that she established in the name of "Tal of Hope", which helps children in need of a kidney transplant. She also exposed them to the process of developing the EVT project, a sports website that allows everyone to train from home, as if they were in the gym.
At the end of the lecture, Sharon received a certificate of appreciation from the school:
This is the students' feedback on Sharon's lecture:
Tzuriel King - in a lecture to the "Ilanot" School students about a 1,200 km bicycle trip for the purpose of food to those in need and homeless people.
The students thanked Tzuriel and wrote:
Avner Gal, CEO of Iridion, lectured to students at the "Ilanot" School in the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
The students summed up the lecture:
Yogev Peretz - conducted a workshop for third graders at the "Ilanot" School with balloons and told them how he became an expert in creating joy through balloons, following an illness that he experienced.
The students said about the lecture:
This year, as in the preceding years, "Be'eri" school in Netanya denotes the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Here some of the activities on the Entrepreneurship Week in "Be'eri" School:
- An opening ceremony led by the Sustainable Leadership class, along with the school choir and the Sinkoffa Entrepreneurship Group.
- 6th graders educated 2nd graders on Entrepreneurship - Games of Old Times.
- During the week entrepreneurship classes were held.
- Students lectured on a variety of initiatives and entrepreneurs.
The entrepreneurs to whom the students were exposed to:
Yair Greenberg - a volunteer from SpaceIL project. Fifth graders heard his lecture about an international contest sponsored by Google to launch a spaceship to the moon, and how SpaceIL aims to launch such a spaceship. SpaceIL wishes to make a contribution to Israeli society by promoting scientific-technological education and encouraging scientific novelty among students.
Anat Farkash told 3rd and 4th graders about a social enterprise that she initiated dubbed "Innocent Fruit Garden" ("Bustan Tom"), on the Carmel coast, in memory of Tom Farkash, who was killed in the Second Lebanon War.
The orchard fosters organic agriculture, through which it imparts values of personal responsibility, giving to the community and respecting the environment.
Navot Inbar from the "Green Network" lectured to third and fourth graders on green entrepreneurship. In the lecture, the students understand the meaning of green entrepreneurship, the requirements of an environmental initiative, get to know a number of projects from Israel and around the world, identify common principles among the initiatives, and examine the role of the entrepreneur as an environmental-social leader.
Malka Aviv shared with the fifth and sixth graders the app for travelers, which allows you to get information about places, people and events in different places around the world.
Ofra Abramovitz, founder of "Mamanet", shared with the fifth and sixth graders the story of the newcomb ball League which is intended for mothers, that she founded in 2005 on a voluntary basis. She began in her city of residence - Kfar Saba, for that she recruited the mayor, mothers and parents' committees. Since then, thousands of mothers have joined Mamanet and played newcomb ball, and Ofra continues to develop Mamanet's circles of influence and promote it in Israel and around the world.
At the end of the lecture, Ofra and the guest entrepreneurs received a gratitude letter from the school:
Maayan Kapah, a mother of a first grade pupil, shared with the fourth grade students the "Butterfly Garden" project and her book on the subject.
"HaYovel" School in Ashdod
The "HaYovel" School joined the schools marking the Global Entrepreneurship Week for the first time.
The school invited the parents and grandparents to come and enjoy the lectures of guest entrepreneurs, and of the sixth graders who participate in entrepreneurship classes.
Schedule of the week at "HaYovel" School:
The guest entrepreneurs at the "HaYovel" School were:
Mali Merton - Volunteer of the SpaceIL spacecraft project
Israel is competing in the global competition Google Lunar XPRIZE and will soon launch the first Israeli spacecraft to the moon.
The spacecraft project volunteers come to the schools and share with the students the dream and implementation with the aim of encouraging children to become interested in science and space exploration.
Yehudit Ovitz speaks in her lecture about "how I became from being a rejected child from an ultra-Orthodox family that does not know the Internet to an Internet entrepreneur and lecturer in Israel and abroad".
The purpose of the lecture is to inspire and give practical tools for entrepreneurship. How to start using the tools around us? Why is the Internet the best thing there is? And how do we make money from our knowledge?
Doron Zexer - Doron is a serial social-business entrepreneur who now leads the activities of the Mifalot Education and Society Association, and he spoke with the pupils on this subject.
The events of the Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Hayovel School were summed up in an article published in the local newspaper of Ashdod city:
"Yad Giora" Junior high school in Herzliya
Students from the 7th and 8th grades participate in an elective course on entrepreneurship under the direction of Ze'ev Schneider.
The students heard a lecture by Gadi, a volunteer of the spacecraft project, who shared with them the ambitious project of Israel to land a spaceship on the moon and win a competition on behalf of Google.
The students also heard a lecture by Amit Saban, a social entrepreneur. Amit is a teenager who was a victim of a cyberbullying by the school students and for several years he has been working to eradicate the phenomenon through lectures, network activity, and "Youth for Youth" organization that he established.
"Yad Mordechai" school in Bat Yam
At the "Yad Mordechai" School in Bat Yam, the Global Entrepreneurship Week is already a tradition.
This year, too, the school hosted entrepreneurs from different disciplines who shared their entrepreneurial journey with the students, from the concept stage through the challenges to the implementation.
Among the entrepreneurs who inspired the students were:
Einat Shamir - Einat is a researcher of yarns, selling different kinds of yarns and creating from them decorative pieces and useful works. Einat shares with the students how she came to work in the field, what can be done from different threads, and how one can make a living from yarns. At the end of a fascinating lecture, the students participated in a hands-on activity with yarns.
Einat responded wrote on Facebook:
"I had a lot of fun today at the "Yad Mordechai" school in Bat Yam as part of the Entrepreneurship Week.
This is the third year I have been to this charming school.
I spoke about my business and the profession I had invented - the study of threads - and at the end of each lesson, the children scored laces in groups within the framework of the "human fabric", a bonding experience of shared creation I have developed.
Michal Zagon - Michal is an entrepreneur in the field of music and health, a writer, poet and deals with regulation and government relations.
As part of her entrepreneurial activity, she wrote a children's book "The Idea of Yaara," which aims to encourage young children, especially young girls, to believe in themselves and their abilities, and to understand that inside each of them there is a "young star-upist."
All we have to do is follow our ideas and develop them without fear of the pitfalls on the way. The development of an idea requires perseverance and self-belief, which in Michal's view is self-actualization.
Galit Zamler - The developer of Entrepreneurship for Kids Program
At the end of the lecture, the entrepreneurs received a certificate of appreciation from the school, such as this one:
Itay Baron - founder of Agree Online - a social network for dispute resolution and agreement building, which allows parties of a dispute to tell their stories and negotiate in an environment based on simplicity, transparency and neutrality. The parties are those who decide on the correct way to resolve the dispute between them, in a process led by a facilitator and with the active assistance of the participants. Agree Online mobilizes the wisdom of the masses in order to offer creative solutions that can be mutually beneficial.
Meir - from "Fat Meir's Kitchen" - Meir is a regular guest entrepreneur at the GEW held in the "Yad Mordechai" School, where students enjoy fresh sandwiches every day, which Meir sends to anyone who has forgotten to bring a sandwich to school.
"Yitzhak Shamir" School in Holon
During the GEW, fourth grade pupils from four different classes heard a lecture by Galit Zamler, the developer of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, which the children learn in a weekly entrepreneurship lesson with the instructor, Dina Arkin.
Galit summarized the encounter with the students as follows:
"Today I met the children as a guest entrepreneur. I told them about myself as a business entrepreneur and about the entrepreneurship curriculum for kids, about the difficulties that I faced on the way and how I nevertheless found the way to success.
The children were attentive and curious, asked many questions and got answers.
The main message was that an entrepreneur encounters difficulties, but when you believe in your project your try different ways in order to make it succeed, and that children can also be entrepreneurs.
The children wanted to share with me their ideas for the projects, but we only heard a few of them ...
They continue to collect the ideas in the boxes of ideas."
In the pictures - students present their ideas for projects:
"Kaplan" School in Petah Tikva
The Kaplan School in Petah Tikva, under the new director Mika Nechushtan, continues as in recent years to mark Global Entrepreneurship Week with a variety of activities for the students.
Students watched videos encouraging entrepreneurship, participated in entrepreneurship classes and workshops that encouraged creativity and teamwork, listened to stories that encouraged tolerance for others and heard lectures from guest entrepreneurs.
Schedule of the week at Kaplan:
The week opened with the "Hutzot Hayotzer - I am a talented" activity that enabled each child to express his talents in a creative and experiential way.
The children held activities on the subjects of cooperation and teamwork:
The guest entrepreneurs at the Kaplan School:
Ronit Meiri - Guide to success, accompanies and helps entrepreneurs focus and succeed.
Einat Shamir - Designer and creator of jewelry and accessories from yarns, holds workshops and lectures on the creation of strings.
Ran Ne'eman - For years, Ran has been a guest entrepreneur at schools and shares his experience as an entrepreneur and a partner in ventures. Ran tries to help students avoid the mistakes that they may make as start-up entrepreneurs.
Ayala Geron - Ayala accompanies the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program from the beginning during the Global Entrepreneurship Week, lectures to students about her high-tech occupations, her initiatives in box games, her social initiatives and volunteer activities in her spare time.
The Korczak School in Ramat-Gan marked for the first time the GEW, on a focused day during which the students were exposed to and inspired by entrepreneurs from various fields.
Schedule of events this week at Korczak School:
Tamar Ish Kassit arrived as a guest entrepreneur to the Korczak school. Tamar is also a military medic and an industrial designer.
She founded the "Cassit Studio" where she develops custom products for people with disabilities.
She is also the founder of "Cassit orthopedics", which manufactures medical braces for developing countries.
One can read about Tamar's many important activities on the Cassit blog.
"Kiryat Ye'arim" School in Ramat HaSharon
The school planned a hackathon for the 4th and 6th grades, lectures by entrepreneurs for students, a lecture for parents on creative thinking, a lesson on positive thinking in the light of inspirational personalities, a sales day for raising initial capital, and a school exhibition on entrepreneurship.
This is the schedule of the GEW events at the Kiryat Ye'arim School:
Pictures from the hackathon School in Kiryat Yearim:
During this week, students from the Kiryat Ye'arim School established booths and raised initial capital for their projects.
Anat Grimland was invited as a guest lecturer at the school.
Anat wrote this:
"Nice to meet, I am Anat Grimland - Legal Counsel and Entrepreneur.
I developed the lecture "Creativity as an opportunity" as part of a project that I initiated in elementary school, where my children study, which aims to give parents tools in creative thinking to create a creative language with children, and through it to solve problems from everyday life.
In the lecture, I present a model that I developed in four stages - how to translate the word "creativity" into daily practice. Through examples of everyday life and with the participation of the audience, the participants embark on practical tools for creative activity as part of the routine.
More than 400 people listened to the lecture (at Harel Insurance Company, at Sapir College and at various events), and each time I enjoy talking about it.
You can contact me by email and call 052-8562166 "
The entrepreneur Sheli Goldenberg shared the fourth and sixth graders with a lecture on "Green Entrepreneurship".
"Rothberg" High School in Ramat Hasharon
The Rothberg High School in Ramat Hasharon marked, for the first time, the GEW with a variety of lectures for all the school's students.
This file attachment with Global Entrepreneurship Week events in the high school.
The following entrepreneurs came as guest lecturers to the high school:
Shai Novik - In a lecture on "What is the difference between pessimistic and optimistic?" Out of 10 years of experience.
Gilad Gans - Lecture on "Start Up - A recipe for success or failure"
Galit Zamler in a lecture on "Entrepreneurship - Anyone Can"
Boaz Rakocz - In a lecture called "Truth or Dare"
Lin Kaplan - In a lecture on "Revolution in Accessibility for Deaf People"
Ofra Abramovitch - Founder of "Mamanet" in a lecture on "Women Entrepreneurship - Is There Such a thing?"
Itamar Kaufman in a lecture on It's possible
Itamar, 17, from Elkana tells:
"I started programming at the age of 9, self-taught via the Internet. At the age of 13, I started programming and at the age of 14, I ran a team of programmers for the first time.
My last job was with a company called EasyWay, where I headed the development team involved in the field of artificial intelligence."
Roi Ashkenazi in a lecture on "entrepreneurship is a matter of character"
Alice Miller in a lecture on "Connect to the Heart and Follow the Dreams"
Adi Zamir - on the development of breast cancer technology
"Sadot" School in Pardes Hanna Karkur
For several years, the Sadot School has been marking the Global Entrepreneurship Week, and this year as well.
The school conducts a school ceremony, entrepreneurship classes, lectures by guest entrepreneurs who tell students about the process they have undergone so far and experiential outdoor activities for students.
The following is the Sadot school schedule for the week:
Pictures from the opening ceremony:
The entrepreneur lecturers at Sadot School are:
Na'ama Shorer - spoke to third graders about her entrepreneurial process in opening a business for designed cakes, about the courage to change a profession out of a desire to do what she loves.
Einat Cohen - Lecture for third graders on natural pharmacology.
Yonatan Karni - Lecture for 6th graders on the House of Wheels.
Tamar Rosenberg - Lectures for 1st, 2nd and 4th grade students named Tami Mami.
Shai Cohen - Shared first-graders on food entrepreneurship.
Omri Gilboa - Told second graders about the invention of drips.
Sigal Sabag - told second graders about Sigalita, her project.
Amir Shemesh - a volunteer of the SpaceIL spacecraft shared the first-graders with the vision to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon, and possibly win the prize that Google offers.
Anat Tessler - Activity for 2nd graders named Anat For Kids.
All the guest entrepreneurs received a certificate of appreciation from a school like this one, which Anat received.
Tal Bensman - Tal has an autistic child who drew paintings of animals when he was young. She kept them and when he grew up, she founded a hostel for him and his friends, where they prepare objects with the same paintings he had painted as a child and sell them, and in doing so she provided him with employment in his adulthood.
Vadim Drabkin - shared the importance of opinions for small businesses with fourth graders and how they can collect them.
Danny Barko - Danny invented a flight simulator, showed videos and explained how he invented it and how it works.
Limor Zevulun - Lecture for the third grade on coexistence.
Eran - Lecture for fourth graders on Iron Dome.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016 was held all over the world and in Israel between the dates 13-20.11.2016.
Israeli schools that educate for entrepreneurship celebrate GEW2016. These schools encourage entrepreneurship in education and entrepreneurial thinking to prepare students for life.
The Entrepreneurship for Kids Program helped recruiting guest entrepreneurs to come and share the entrepreneurial process that they have gone through with the students, how the idea was born, the realization process, challenges and future plans.
In all the schools that teach entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship classes were held during the week.
Guest entrepreneur: Sharon Muallem - one of the online sports venture EVT founders.
Guest entrepreneur: Michael (Adolf) Asor, founder of "Sarah Cloth" a second-hand clothing store that serves less fortunate members of society, in a lecture to students in sixth grade.
Guest entrepreneur: Sarit Maor - gave a fifth-grade lecture.
Guest entrepreneur: Yael Haddad - founder of "Vakelita" - a regional children's choir, a lecture to all the 5th-grade students.
Guest entrepreneur: Netanel Rossman - founder of Capsula, gave a sixth-grade lecture.
Guest entrepreneur: Yoav Naim - one of the OGERTV school TV channel founders. Gave fourth and fifth-grade lectures.
An example of a project produced with Yoav's assistance.
Guest entrepreneur: Miri Kotzer founder of KishKush (nonsense) a company that operates birthdays, workshops, and other events. Gave a fourth-grade lecture.
Guest entrepreneur: Yair Greenberg, of the Israeli venture SpaceIL, to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the moon.
Guest entrepreneur: Inbar Navot, gave fourth and sixth-grade lectures about "green" entrepreneurship.
Guests entrepreneurs received letters of thanks, like this:
Guest entrepreneur: Amir Raveh - entrepreneur, founder of MG-equity investments, a lecturer at the Academy, does workshops and mentors entrepreneurs to success for the past 15 years. Amir gave a lecture to students of the 7th grade in the entrepreneurship program.
Guest entrepreneur: Ran Ne'eman - technology entrepreneur, lectured to students of the 7th grade in the entrepreneurship program.
During the week, the young students conducted a ceremony and a show on entrepreneurship, with an emphasis on Israel as an innovative country.
During the show, the students have shown a box full of Israeli inventions.
Guest entrepreneur: Einat Shamir - founder of "Trail - string work, design, creation and teaching"
Guest entrepreneur: Yoav Naim - one of the OGERTV school TV channel founders. Gave fourth and fifth-grade lectures.
Guest entrepreneur: Galit Zamler - the founder of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program. Gave a sixth-grade lecture.
At the end of the lectures, the entrepreneurs received thank-you letters.
Guest entrepreneur: Amit Saban - a 17-year-old entrepreneur and social activist. Amit developed a "smart" military tag to help locate soldiers, set up a project that helps preserve stories of Holocaust survivors, and is currently promoting the awareness of internet based violence.
Amit took part in Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015.
Guest entrepreneur: Itamar Kaufman - a 17-year-old technology entrepreneur since the age of 12. Itamar founded so far two companies and has developed over 20 applications. He is a lecturer and consultant.
Itamar was a guest entrepreneur also on Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015.
Guest entrepreneur: Ran Ne'eman a technology entrepreneur, gave a lecture to fifth graders' in Kaplan school.
Click to open a file containing all events of Global Entrepreneurship Week in Kaplan elementary school.
Global Entrepreneurship Week opening ceremony, attended by all students at the school.
Guest entrepreneur: A guest Amir Zaid - lectured for the 5th graders on the subject of urban vehicles.
Guest entrepreneur: Naama Shorer, cake designer. Lectured for 1st graders.
Guest entrepreneur: Ron Siso - founder of the enterprise "Daddy, please build for me" lectured for students in the 2nd grade.
Guest entrepreneur: Ori Lahav - founder of "Outbrain" lectured for fifth graders.
Guest entrepreneur: Iris Perry - developing a chair backrest.
Guest entrepreneur: Galit Zamler, gave a fourth-grade lecture.
Additional guest entrepreneurs:
Nir Alon Tal Cohen Ofra Jonah, Shai Cohen, Yuval Arbitman and Danny Berko
Guests entrepreneurs received a gratitude letter for the lectures to the students.
The Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016 was concluded in Sadot primary school by a challenging outdoor activity.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2015 took place in over 150 countries around the world, including Israel, on the 15th-22nd of November 2015.
For the past few years, the EFK Program has encouraged Israeli schools to take part in this week and expose their students to entrepreneurs from various disciplines, who speak about their entrepreneurial path.
The students find the lectures very interesting and receive a close-up view of how entrepreneurs come up with ideas and deal with challenges, successes, and failures along the way.
The EFK Program does its best to recruit guest entrepreneurs.
A certificate of appreciation was given to Galit Zamler for her work in encouraging the activities in schools.
Ofira Navon School in Kfar Saba
Since the 2015-16 school year, a group of students at the Ofira Navon school has been learning through the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
The teacher, Dana Ben Shitrit, taught the students a class on entrepreneurship and so exposed them to the existence of GEW.
Ilanot School in Ashkelon
This year, Ilanot school joined the schools that teach entrepreneurship, and implement the EFK program.
During Global Entrepreneurship Week, the school's students participated in entrepreneurship lessons.
Alumot School in Tel Aviv
This year, Alumot school took part in GEW for the first time.
During this week, students were exposed to projects from various areas: the spaceship project, the peas and carrots project, the technology project, art in threads, directing and narration.
Be'eri School in Netanya
This year, Be'eri school began teaching the modules of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program and took part in Global Entrepreneurship Week.
The school's students heard lectures from guest entrepreneurs and participated in entrepreneurship lessons.
HaManhil School in Ramat Gan
HaManhil school in Ramat Gan educates for leadership and entrepreneurship and took part in GEW for the first time this year.
The teacher Michal Mamman contacted many entrepreneurs who came to the school to inspire third to eighth graders.
Harel School in Bat Yam
Since the 2015-16 school year, the Harel school in Bat-Yam has joined the schools that encourage entrepreneurship education.
This year, the school participated in this week with guest entrepreneurs who inspired the students.
Yad Mordechai School in Bat Yam
Yad Mordechai school has been taking part in Global Entrepreneurship Week for several years.
The school held an entrepreneurial ceremony, and its students heard lectures by entrepreneurs from various fields.
Katznelson School in Kfar Sirkin
This is the second year Katznelson school has taken part in this week.
During the week, 6th graders began taking entrepreneurship lessons through the EFK Program.
Mordei HaGeta'ot School in Ramat Gan
Mordei HaGeta'ot school celebrates GEW every year.
This year, the school also invited guest entrepreneurs to share their experiences with its students.
On every classroom blackboard, the guest entrepreneurs saw their picture alongside information about their lecture and their field of work. This way the students knew who the lecturer was and what was the subject of the lecture.
A slideshow summarizing Global Entrepreneurship Week at Mordei HaGeta'ot school:
Noam Mohaliver School in Bnei Brak
This is the second year that Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak has noted GEW. This time with a focus on social entrepreneurship.
During the week, students heard lectures from guest entrepreneurs and took part in lessons on entrepreneurship.
The Noam Mohaliver school is collecting project ideas from students:
Ironi A School in Modi'in
Ironi A school first marked the Global Entrepreneurship Week.
During the week, a group of students participated in the entrepreneurship class and heard a lecture by a guest entrepreneur.
Aliyot School in Ramat Gan
At Aliyot school in Ramat Gan, 4th-grade students have entrepreneurship classes with the teacher Levana Greenfeld.
This was the second year that the school took part in GEW with a weekly lesson and a lecture from a guest entrepreneur.
Kaplan School in Petah Tikva
Kaplan school in Petah Tikva is the first school in Israel to take part in Global Entrepreneurship Week, and this year they also took part in a variety of activities:
An opening ceremony, a Hackathon, lectures from guest entrepreneurs, the launch of empowerment and entrepreneurship programs, entrepreneurial graffiti, workshops on developing creative thought and leadership, entrepreneurship fair, an entrepreneurship party, and community involvement.
Ramot Weizmann School in Yavne
This was the third year that Ramot Weizmann school in Yavne celebrated GEW through a festive ceremony and entrepreneurial lectures for the students.
At the end of the week, an article was published in Yavne's local newspaper.
This is a part of the article:
"The guest lecturers spoke about education, business, and social projects and shared their ideas, failures, and successes.
The students greatly enjoyed the film clips that were shown to them and understood the overall message that one should not give up dreams and that when you want to initiate something you should not be afraid."
Some comments from the students:
Itamar - To be an entrepreneur you need to think outside the box.
Uri - Every idea begins by believing in yourself.
Yuval: We got the courage to try, to dare to develop something.
Alon: I understood that entrepreneurship is a long process, there are hardships along the way, but you can't give up on dreams.
Sadot school in Pardes Hana Karkur
Sadot school is a growing school that teaches innovative entrepreneurship.
The school participated in its first GEW with a morning school-wide assembly and entrepreneurship classes. They connected Ben Gurion Memorial Day with the theme of entrepreneurial vision, with guest entrepreneurs, lectures from parents, workshops and games from the entrepreneurial world, and a school-wide creativity-themed activity.
The guest entrepreneurs at Sadot school:
The SpaceIL spaceship project
This is the third year that volunteers from the Israeli spaceship project are cooperating with the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program. They are reaching schools that are implementing the program to tell about the spacecraft project, to engage students in the dream of the moon landing and the desire to specialize in science and space research.
This year, the volunteers came to the following schools: Alumot in Tel Aviv, HaManhil in Ramat Gan, Mordei HaGeta'ot in Ramat Gan and Be'eri in Netanya.
Danny Deutsch is visiting schools for the third year as part of the entrepreneurship week, and this year he lectured in the Alumot school in Tel Aviv.
Orna Jacobson, the entrepreneurship coordinator at the Alumot school, wrote the following about the lecture: The children enjoyed the lecture very much, asked questions and were interested. I highly recommend it!
Assaf, another volunteer from the spaceship project, reached the Be'eri school in Netanya, where the students were also very interested and asked questions.
Assaf at the Be'eri school:
Roy Benjamin one of the lecturers' team at SpaceIL reached the HaManhil school in Ramat Gan twice during Global Entrepreneurship Week for several lectures, thus all students from grades 3rd to 8th heard the lecture on the Israeli spaceship.
Sivan Yitzhak is lecturing about the spaceship project in entrepreneurial schools for the second year during GEW.
Sivan at Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan with 4th graders:
Guest Entrepreneur: Innon Boim, Founder of PTNeto Portal
Innon during his lecture to students at HaManhil school in Ramat Gan:
Innon was a guest lecturer at three schools: Kaplan school in Petah Tikva, Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan and HaManhil school in Ramat Gan. Thank you very much!
In his lectures, Innon spoke about his work as CEO and owner of Simple Finance, a senior economist, an entrepreneur, a lecturer and economic success mentor for families and business. He is a proud resident of Petah Tikva, who decided to develop the Petah Tikva portal as an online platform to provide information to residents of Petah Tikva and the surrounding area.
PTNeto Portal is considered the most popular online portal in the city and includes objective information on everything happening there. The portal has set itself the goal of becoming a home for small businesses in Petah Tikva as well.
In the portal, Innon also writes about educational events, including Global Entrepreneurship Week.
In the PTNeto Portal one can advertise events and write articles/blogs, add oneself to business directory and write on different message boards (organized by type of business), such as real estate, wanted ads, cars, etc. In addition, it is possible to help sponsor or cooperate with events taking place within the portal.
Innon says, using the Simple Finance method I successfully direct my clients and provide them with a practical solution, through which they can forget about over drafting, relax and follow their personal dreams, like an international vacation, a home makeover, festive events, education for their kids, retirement and more. Thanks to the Simple Finance system my clients are mindful of their cash flow and fully control it.
Innon used the experience and knowledge he gathered as a financial advisor to develop a finance course for schools.
Innon during his lecture at Kaplan school:
Guest Entrepreneur Keren Biler from the Women's Council Project
Keren at Be'eri school:
Keren is the mother of a student at Be'eri school in Netanya, and she gave a lecture on the Women's Council Project in which she participates.
Ilanit Beno, Owner of A Taste of More Catering
Ilanit volunteered as a lecturer for the third year during Global Entrepreneurship Week, this time at Weizmann school in Yavne.
Ilanit shared her story with the students, speaking about how she began her project in confectionery and catering.
"I always had a taste for design and beauty, and from a young age, I loved baking cakes and cookies, cooking for family and friends and decorating cakes for birthdays and family events.
At some point, I decided to turn the hobby into a career, so I studied design and confectionery and later specialized in chocolate and desserts.
Today I specialize in baking cakes and cookies, cooking and baking by order, cooking and baking with chocolate and running workshops."
A Taste of More Catering is located in Rehovot and is a dairy catering for private customers and events of up to 100 people.
Guest Entrepreneur: Menahem Bordaty, Entrepreneurship in Israel and Abroad
Menachem shared his vast experience with students from Ironi A school in Modi'in.
In his lecture, he spoke about the differences between doing business in Israel and abroad, why some Israelis struggle to succeed in Israel, but succeed abroad, and how one can improve the chance for success of their project in Israel.
Guest Entrepreneur Michal Brotfeld Art in Threads
This was Michal's second year as a guest lecturer. This year, Michal lectured at Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak and at Yad Mordechai school in Bat Yam.
Michal spoke about how she moved from her work in public relations to become a business owner in an area she had loved for many years - art in threads.
Michal shares her experience with the children, speaking about her work as an entrepreneur, the process of defining a target audience, marketing to a target audience, the challenges she has met and overcome, or still deals with, how she uses Facebook to market her business, and how she distinguishes Art in Threads from other businesses in the same field.
Guest Entrepreneur Almog Gold Rothenberg, The Pea and Carrot brigade Creator
Photo by Maya Havkin
Almog Gold Rothenberg established The Pea and Carrot brigade in order to help families, children, fathers, and mothers enjoy healthy food, feel better about themselves and achieve greater things through eating.
Almog has a Master's degree in behavioral science and studied natural nutrition.
She developed her business after losing 17 kilograms and improving her blood test results through healthier eating. She is the mother of a teenager who took part in her nutritional transformation, and a toddler who was born into healthy eating.
Today Almog sees private patients in Tel Aviv, leads a workshop on healthy eating for women and mothers, and serves as a guest lecturer. She also writes for Yediot Acharonot and the health portal Eatwell, and most importantly - she eats well.
Almog told students at Alumot school in Tel Aviv how her idea for the successful business came from a bag of frozen vegetables that she took out of the freezer, and revealed her secret business advisor (hint: he's 13).
Guest Entrepreneur: Netanel Dagami - Serial Entrepreneur
Netanel visited the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan as a guest entrepreneur.
Natanel Dagami, a 26-year-old from Ramat Gan says, I began my way in business right after my army service.
The first company we started (me and my partner) is a current events portal dealing with Mediterranean music.
Among the modules included in the portal are: updated current events from the genre, coverage of events, independent media production, increasing exposure and promotion of new media, and more.
Afterward, we started an additional company that deals in building websites, phone applications, managing new media for companies, graphics, branding and so on.
After that, we merged with a company that develops and promotes companies' business, and together we started a management group with shared ownership, whose purpose is to expand the business of all of its members. From here, we began purchasing companies that have been running for some time and required new management to revive them.
Guest Entrepreneur Liat Henriette Zilber - Developer of Milat Hayom Kit
Liat is a guest entrepreneur for the second year. This year, she lectured at Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak.
Liat was forced to interrupt her work as a successful dance and movement teacher and as a reflexologist due to arthritis.
In her lecture to the students, Liat spoke about how she found the strength to cheer herself up after this, and how to cheer others on.
Liat produced a card kit and published the book Milat Hayom (word of the day) - each word inspires and drives people to action, making their day more positive.
Liat funded the book's production through fundraising, which she also spoke about with the students, telling them how the fundraising happened, what supporters received, the book's launch and the excitement that came with it, and her plans for the future.
Guest Entrepreneur Galit Zamler - Team Work
Galit Zamler, business, and social entrepreneur, developed the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program and manages the running of Global Entrepreneurship Week in schools across the country.
Galit's lecture was about the individual, the team and teamwork.
In the lecture, students learn through a game about how peer pressure affects them, and about the importance of teamwork for a project's success.
Galit at Sadot school and at Kaplan school:
Guest Entrepreneur Doron Zexer- The First Social Shopping Mall
Doron has been lecturing as a guest entrepreneur for a few years, and this year he reached Har'el and Yad Mordechai schools in Bat-Yam.
Doron founded the first social shopping mall.
The first social shopping mall offers products and services from social business to potential buyers in two main methods:
- Selling a Good Coupon, a social coupon for organizations to use at the first social shopping mall.
- Selling products and services directly to customers who choose to buy and do good.
Doron at his lecture at Harel school:
Guest Entrepreneur Sigal Yaron- Following the Child's Footsteps Method Developer
Sigal came to Ramot Weizmann school in Yavne as a guest entrepreneur, and shared her with the students, speaking about the challenges she has faced, her faith in herself and her project, and how, through determination, diligence, creativity and more, one can succeed as an entrepreneur.
Sigal developed the Following the Child's Footsteps method which allows adults (educators/parents) to see the world through a child's eyes in order to promote a respectful and beneficial relationship with children.
The method was developed with the understanding that dialogue, free will and freedom (physical and mental) allow children to grow into self-confident and happy adults.
The method urges parents to provide for children's needs and feelings rather than fight to control them and demand discipline, coercion, and compliance. It comes from a parental and educational desire to allow the Little Prince (the inner me), which exists in every child and adult, to get a place of honor in our lives.
One central premise of the method is that children have a natural curiosity to learn and get to know the world without preconceived notions.
They are eager to learn from their environment independently, as can be seen in the needs pyramid created by In the Child's Footsteps, and oppose direct learning. As such, the method creates an experience-based environment based on the child's interests, from which the child will learn and reach his potential in all levels - emotional, mental, motor and social.
Sigal in Ramot Weizmann school:
Guest Entrepreneur Yossi Katz, Yossiversita Founder
Last year, Yossi took part in lectures during Global Entrepreneurship Week, and this year he was invited to Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak. He spoke to the students about what led him to establish the Yossiversita center.
"I'm not an expert in entrepreneurship; I do what my heart tells me. I know that for a project to be established you need a new idea that has a demand. The entrepreneur needs to stick to his goals, know how to make decisions, sometimes be brave and to be focused on his goals.
The realization that I want to help kids hit me when I was 12; my mother, who is a psychologist, left an article on the table and I, who loved to read, read it. The article was about a student in London who was unpopular, and during a field trip, no group wanted her to sleep in their tent. When the girl spoke to the trip organizers, they sent her to a different room where she was alone. The next morning everyone searched for the girl, who had run away and left a note in her room saying, 'A human stayed in this room, not a monkey'.
And so after reading this article in 7th grade, I knew that all I wanted to do in life was making people feel better so that they could follow their dreams."
Later, Yossi studied Psychology, diagnosed many people and became a popular lecturer. But he says, I never felt that I was achieving my dream.
After a workshop for parents of children with ADHD, Yossi understood that all a child needs is one adult who believes in him/her.
Yossi believes that there is a spark in every student and that everyone has a dream. He urges everyone not to fear to realize their dreams, not to allow fear to take charge, and only then change will come, and with it, opportunities for growth.
Guest Entrepreneur Rotem Laniado - Technological Project
Rotem is a high school student in Ramat HaSharon who established an entrepreneurship center in his school, called Together.
The center is a place for students and teens to promote entrepreneurial ideas.
Rotem's project won the support of the school's administration as well as that of the city's department of education.
Rotem during his lecture to students at Mordei HaGeta'ot school:
Guest Entrepreneur Ronit Meiri - Yes You Can
This is the second year that Ronit is participating as a guest entrepreneur, this time at Kaplan school in Petah Tikva, in an activity aimed to empower students.
Ronit is a personal trainer for achieving goals, empowerment, and self-image.
Through her work, she empowers and teaches people to believe in themselves and their abilities, and to connect with the forces that help them.
During their meeting with her, students made a vision, encouraged individuality, did good deeds and more.
Guest Entrepreneur Almog Moskovitz - Technological Entrepreneur
Almog is a startup entrepreneur and one of the founders of SeatApp.
Almog is the son of a teacher at Be'eri school in Netanya and was invited as a guest entrepreneur to tell his story to the students.
During his lecture, he told the students how to identify demand, how to create a business plan and how to fulfill the dream of developing a project.
Guest Entrepreneur Sharon Mu'alem - Social and Business Entrepreneur
Sharon has been cooperating with the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program since she began her career. Like every year, she came to share her experiences as an entrepreneur with students.
Sharon is a partner in EVT SPORT, an online sports project.
In her lecture, she openly spoke to the students about how she made her way with her startup partners, from the initial interview up until today.
Additionally, the project was presented to the students and they participated in athletic activity, in the spirit of the project.
Sharon is also the founder of the social project, Tal Shel Tikva- a fund for children with kidney disease.
In her lectures, Sharon speaks about what is actually a social enterprise? Who benefits from it?, what she does in the project, and how she came to develop the project.
She also answers questions like, who do we work for and how? How do we convince investors? How can the children help themselves? What do we develop for the children? And how does the fund benefit from this?
At the end of the lecture, the children received a small gift of water bottles after they had discussed the importance of keeping children hydrated.
Sharon suggested that the school takes part in one of Tal Shel Tikva's activities; Before Hannukah we have made small gift packages for the children from the fund.
We make about 300 packages that are distributed to six hospitals around Israel. I would be happy if the children from the school would join in preparing the gift packages.
You can put anything in the package that would occupy and cheer the children up during their dialysis treatment. Other than candy, I left the choice open to yours and the children's imaginations.
Guest Entrepreneur Ran Ne'eman - Technological Entrepreneur
Ran has been taking part in Global Entrepreneurship Week as a guest lecturer for a few years, this year at Alumot school in Tel Aviv and Harel school in Bat Yam.
The subject of his lecture was the mistakes you will make as entrepreneurs. A review of lessons learned in establishing a project adapted to the children's content worlds.
Ran during his lecture at Alumot school:
Ran has 20 years of high-tech experience in various companies and startups.
Ran is a co-founder of Accells, a company that developed a system for user authentication through mobile phones. The system Accells is used to strengthen the entry to networks, remote access systems, and cash registers. The company was sold to Ping Identity in 2013.
Today Ran manages identity, holding and mobile products at Ping Identity.
Ran during his lecture at Harel school:
Guest Entrepreneur Sivan Nachum - Developer of the Mitti Kit
Sivan was a guest lecturer at Kaplan school in Petah Tikva.
Sivan partnered with Lilach Bernstein. They both identified the needs of new parents and developed the Mitti kit - a kit that attaches to the handles of a baby carriage and meets the immediate needs of parents, incorporating their daily needs with technology.
Sivan is a third-year student of business administration and marketing at a management school, and says this about herself:
"Until now, I worked as a customer service manager at Go Active and currently I am working on starting a business in advertising and marketing for small and medium businesses.
I began my way as an entrepreneur during a management course at the college with Professor Daphna Kariv."
This is the first model of the Mitti kit:
Guest Entrepreneur Yoav Naim - One of the founders of School TV Channel Project OGERTV
Yoav is one of the founders of a unique project called OGERTV, which combines advanced learning with project-oriented activities and urges the students to take part in entrepreneurial activities and experiences while incorporating creative and innovative thought.
The project teaches students about communication, television, advanced media, production and journalism.
The project produces a TV channel that is aired at the school. The channel is produced by the OGERTV team with help from the students, who learn from their experience.
The students research, interview, write, brainstorm, take part in production and star in the show themselves in a variety of roles: as presenters, broadcasters, journalists and more.
During Global Entrepreneurship Week, Yoav visited four schools Be'eri in Netanya, Alumot in Tel Aviv, Yad Mordechai and Har'el in Bat Yam. In his lecture, he spoke to the students about the project he'd developed, how he came up with the idea and how the project is managed.
Yoav at Be'eri school in Netanya and at Har'el school in Bat Yam:
Guest Entrepreneur: Amit Saban - Young Technological Entrepreneur
Amit was invited to be a guest lecturer for 8th graders at HaManhil school.
In his lecture, Amit spoke to the students about the process he underwent and is still going through with the smart disc project.
"My name is Amit Saban, I'm 16 and a half years old, from Ramat HaSharon, and I'm an 11th grader at the Holon High School. I studied law for two years at Tel Aviv University. Lately, I have been developing a unique startup that aims to prevent the kidnapping of soldiers and citizens.
The startup is a smart disc that I developed. When a soldier or citizen feels unsafe, in danger or is kidnapped, they press the smart disc that I developed and so their location will be sent to the IDF and to our nation's security systems. Currently, the location and signal of the danger are sent to a computer program that I developed.
A few words about me:
I believe that nothing stands in the way of willpower.
No one should have to give up his or her dreams and projects.
We need to remember that sometimes, someone else's opinion of us should not become our reality..."
Guest Entrepreneur Navot Inbar Green Entrepreneurship
Navot at an experiential lecture about green entrepreneurship for 3rd graders at Be'eri school in Netanya.
Guest Entrepreneur: Itamar Kaufman - Technological Entrepreneur
Itamar was a guest lecturer for students at Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan.
Itamar Kaufman is almost 16 and was born on 1.1.2000.
Itamar likes to solve problems and enjoys new technologies and wearable technologies.
Despite his young age, Itamar has an impressive record:
A serial entrepreneur who has managed to establish 13 startup companies before starting PlaceIt, where he is the CEO. He also organized the world's first smart homes Hackathon, which took place at the Google offices in Tel Aviv and was copied in San Francisco.
He has won 12 programming marathons.
His company won the Prime Minister's office award and tries to take all transportation tickets like the Rav-Kav and transfer them to smartphones.
Additionally, he organized the world's first programming marathon for Facebook's Parse platform in Israel.
Over the years, he has learned to find sponsors and network. Thanks to these ties, until recently, he worked at The BitBite company as the Android development team manager and received additional job offers but had to turn them down due to his studies.
Itamar says: "I'm homeschooled because my parents and I decided that it's more convenient for me and this way I will be able to finish my studies as quickly as possible.
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Guest Entrepreneur: Netanel Rozman - Capsula (Capsule) Founder
Netanel Rozman is a coordinator of social entrepreneurship and business. He is studying for his Bachelor's degree in education and social business management at Seminar HaKibbutzim and works as a personal trainer for teenagers.
In his talk with Be'eri school students in Netanya, he spoke about the entrepreneurial world with an emphasis on the world of social entrepreneurship and social business, as well as on the work Capsula is doing.
Capsula is a shared workspace for people and ideas. It is a unique and a youthful work environment which includes: a quiet workspace, a meeting room, a conference room, an equipped kitchen and a nice roof to rest on.
The members of Capsula benefit from opportunities to meet, network and cooperate with young entrepreneurs from different fields.
Within this context, Capsula works to raise awareness of entrepreneurship, specifically social entrepreneurship in Netanya. Therefore, Capsula offers free weekly lectures to entrepreneurs, as well as personal training, fairs, conferences on the topic, and more.
Netanel during his lecture at Be'eri school:
Guest Entrepreneur Danny Sharon - Danny the Magician
Danny at Noam Mohaliver school
This was the second year that Danny participated as a guest lecturer. This time at Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak.
Danny set up his own business in the field of juggling and magic. A business that began as a hobby while Danny worked as a computer systems analyst for 30 years, and managed a computer unit for a large company for more than 20 years.
After work, Danny picked up juggling and would practice 2-3 hours a day.
After a few years of practice, he became a professional and began performing as a professional juggler.
Three years ago, he decided to open his own business in juggling and magic, left his secure workplace, and dedicated his time and resources to build a business plan. (Market research, finances, marketing system and more...)
According to this plan he built his business. Danny explained that it's important to have a relative advantage in your business, and his advantage was that he himself was the magician and juggler, meaning that he understood the field and could advise customers that came to him using his relevant experience.
The business plan included setting a target audience, and because not many people are interested in circus accessories, he decided to direct his business at children as they like magic.
Guest Entrepreneur: Tamir Schwartz - Technological Entrepreneur
Tamir during his lecture at HaManhil school in Ramat Gan
Tamir lectured at two schools: Mordei HaGeta'ot school, where his children are students, and HaManhil school in Ramat Gan.
Tamir studied information systems engineering at the Technion and holds a graduate degree in law.
Tamir says that for seven years, he worked at Matrix as a senior project manager and as a development and design department manager.
For the last few years, he has been an entrepreneur and works on many startups, some which he began and raised funds for them.
Tamir's lecture was about a project rising and falling.
The lecture opened with a game where students had to shoot a large ball into a narrow basket- it was assumed that the students would not be successful.
Then Tamir asked them to offer solutions to the situation, and the conclusion was that it's possible to shoot the ball into the basket if the rules are changed.
In this way, Tamir showed the students that entrepreneurs don't say it's hard or it's impossible, but see hardship as a challenge and something that can be solved and overcome.
Guest Entrepreneur: Carmi Sternberg - Technological Entrepreneur
Carmi at HaManhil school in Ramat Gan
Carmi lectured at HaManhil school and at Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan.
Carmi is a high-tech entrepreneur who was trained at the Center for Computing and Information Systems. He worked as a programmer at interesting high-tech companies, founded a number of startup businesses in the areas of energy, applications, programs, teaching, and more. He is a startup consultant for entrepreneurs, a trainer at high-tech companies and more.
He is married with three kids, lives in Ramat Gan, He has been an entrepreneur since at a young age, and is now raising young entrepreneurs at home.
In his lecture: From Idea to Product. Carmi spoke about the entrepreneurial world in a practical and realistic light, about motivation and understanding the process of making an idea into a product.
Carmi at Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan.
Guest Entrepreneur Einat Shamir - Shoval Hats and Accessories
This is the second year that Einat is lecturing at Global Entrepreneurship Week. Her business, Shoval Hats and Accessories is being developed and improved with time, and as it does, she shares the process of the business development with the students.
Einat says:
"I've always loved crafting and learning new things. I was especially drawn to thread-work, and the huge variety included in that, (and to the fact that it is related to fashion, and that the materials don't make your hands dirty).
I began collecting samples at a young age, I learned all I could, and I researched in books and magazines, and also in the last few years on the internet as well.
I designed and invented and combined materials on types of creativity; I checked how things are built so I could diversify and renovate them.
When I decided to found a business, I wanted to continue to do exactly what I love.
It was a long process which ended with a business made up of products that I design and create by hand (mostly jewelry and fashion accessories).
I also give lessons where I teach children and adults to knit, cross-stitch, crochet, weave, tie and more, and to create small and cute things.
I also have weaving kits from which anyone can learn at home, and with which people can create, and I developed a series of team building exercises where a group of participants turns into a human loom."
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014 was marked by over 140 countries around the world and by Israel between 16-23.11/2014.
GEW 2014 is celebrated in entrepreneurial schools accompanied by the Entrepreneurship for Kids and for Youth Program that encourages entrepreneurial thinking and entrepreneurial skills, through ceremonies, workshops, activities, and lectures by entrepreneurs from various fields.
This presentation describes just a few of the many events that took place during Global Entrepreneurship Week:
Israel's first Hackathon for 4th, 5th and 6th graders
On a separate page, we have elaborated on the Hackathon, which was an empowering event planned with care, and an unforgettable experience for the students who took part, and for those who are eager to continue. Click here to read more about Israel's first Hackathon for young students.
Coffee-Entrepreneur Event for Teachers and Parents at Mordei HaGeta'ot School
Another unique event that took place during this week was at Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan, managed by Ronni Shasha and her assistant Sagit Tzigler: Coffee-Entrepreneur.
This evening, which was all-entrepreneurial, opened with a lecture by Galit Zamler who talked about the importance of teaching entrepreneurship from a young age and continued with guest entrepreneurs, who shared with teachers and parents the entrepreneurial processes they have been gone through.
The guest entrepreneurs who came to the school were: Moshe Porat, Ayelet Titlebaum, Amit Saban and Rotem Laniado. We have written more about each lecture below.
Some of the entrepreneurs were children: Yair, Shani, and Geffen. They developed a Shirt for any size. The kid entrepreneurs took part in the evening and told the audience about the entrepreneurial process they went through.
The Coffee-Entrepreneur event took place in addition to many entrepreneurs' lectures, who came to the school and spoke to students about their experiences.
Also, every day of the week opened with the classes watching a film clip, hearing a song, or listening to a story relating to entrepreneurship and expanding the topic.
Opening Global Entrepreneurship Week
Global Entrepreneurship Week began at some schools with ceremonies and a festive celebration, including at Tze'elon school in Be'er Ya'akov.
This is the invitation to the ceremony:
During the event, students at Tze'elon school were exposed to different areas of entrepreneurship, and at the end, each student chose their favorite area, which they will specialize in during the school year.
First Year Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week
Aliyot school in Ramat Gan, run by Tova Goldstein, joined the entrepreneurial schools this year, encouraged by the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
During Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014 the school held entrepreneurship lessons for 4th graders, led by Levana Greenfeld. During the lessons, students came up with ideas for projects, which they wrote on light bulbs and gathered on a board in the 4th-grade lobby. The board aroused much interest in the school.
During the week, students also met with Sivan from the SpaceIL team, who told them about the Israel spaceship that will land on the moon. They also met with the young entrepreneurs from Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan, who developed A shirt for any size. Yair, Shani, and Gefen came to Aliyot school and spoke to the entrepreneurial students about how they thought of the idea for the project, the stages in the process of making it a reality, and their experiences during the process.
The 4th graders at the Aliyot school asked the entrepreneurs some questions:
-Have you thought that it's also possible to make the shirt longer?
-Is the shirt already available for sale?
-Do you intend to sell the shirt in stores?
-How much will the shirt cost in stores?
-Will the shirt be available in additional colors?
-Did you enjoy designing and sewing the shirt?
-How can I get in contact with you?
-Did you have any hardships during the process?
-Were there any arguments between you?
-Are you happy with the final result?
-How did you all meet to create this team? You're from different grades.
-How long did it take to make the shirt?
The shirt project inspired a student from Aliyot, and she came up with an idea for a phone cover that adjusts its size and shape to the size and shape of cell phones.
A summary of the events of that week at Aliyot school was written on this page that was sent to the parents
First Year Celebrating Global Entrepreneurship Week
This year, the religious public school Noam Mohaliver in Bnei Brak, run by Dvorah Bar-On, joined the entrepreneurial schools celebrating GEW.
The excitement among the staff and students was great, and entrepreneurs from different fields were invited to share their knowledge and experience with the students.
This is the schedule for GEW 2014 at Noam Mohaliver school:
All the students attended a school event marking this week, during which balloons were flown to symbolize, on one hand, that the sky is the limit, and on the other hand the thread connects to reality and action.
This is a photo of the balloons being released by the students at Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak.
Global Entrepreneurship Week Closing Ceremony and Starting a New Project
Kaplan school in Petah Tikva was the first school in Israel to take part in Global Entrepreneurship Week in 2010, and it has since become a tradition.
During this week many entrepreneurs came to Kaplan school and shared their experiences with the students. In addition, the school's staff ran various workshops and activities, all related to self-empowerment and entrepreneurship.
The week wrapped up with a school-wide ceremony and the parents, neighbors of the school, and educators in the city were invited.
At the end of the ceremony, 6th-grade students began a unique project for the Schneider Children's Hospital. Read about the project Happy is Healthy.
All of the events at Kaplan school were written in the booklet that was made especially for the week.
This presentation summarizes the events at Kaplan school:
Guest Entrepreneurs Share Their Experience with Students
Many guest entrepreneurs responded to the request ofEntrepreneurship for Kids Program's to lecture school children and tell their stories as entrepreneurs, share insights from their experience and give tips for success.
These are the entrepreneurs:
SpaceIL Spaceship Project
This is the second year that the leaders of the Israeli spaceship project collaborating with the EFK Program. They came to schools that are implementing the program and told about the spacecraft project, the goal of engaging students in the moon landing dream, and the desire to make kids want to specialize in science and space research.
This year, volunteers from the first Israeli spacecraft to land on the moon came to the following schools: Tze'elon in Be'er Ya'akov, HaBiluim in Ramat Gan, Noam Mohaliver in Bnei Brak, Arnon, Aliyot and Mordei HaGeta'ot in Ramat Gan.
Here is a photo of Sivan Yitzhak, a volunteer from the spaceship project, during her lecture to 4th graders at Mordei HaGeta'ot school.
The students were very interested in the lecture and asked many questions, which made clear that they found science and space study important:
-Is it possible to walk on the moon?
-Is the United States flag still there?
-Is it possible to return from the moon?
-What does 'unmanned' mean?
-Is there sunlight on the moon?
-Why will the SpaceIL ship be unmanned?
-What happens when a spaceship explodes?
-Why won't the ship you build return to earth?
-If the ship could return to earth, would it possibly fall on someone?
-Could there be life in space?
-How will the pictures be taken by the ship get to earth?
-How long can a human be in space?
-Won't there be dust in the pictures? Because there is dust on the moon.
-Why is there a Bezeq logo on the SpaceIL ship?
-Will the spaceship look like the model we saw?
-How will the camera on the spaceship not be ruined?
-If an astronaut on the moon jumped very high, could he come back down to the moon?
-Is Neil Armstrong still alive?
-How would you win the Google contest?
-What causes companies to lose the Google contest?
-If a country beats us, will we continue trying to get the ship to the moon?
-Is the SpaceIL ship ready?
-What happens if no one can successfully land on the moon?
-How long does it take to build a spaceship?
-Are there contestants whose ship is already complete?
During the lectures, the students were asked: If you were flying to the moon, what would you take with you?
They answered that they would take: food, a camera, depends on how long, an iPhone, 50 blankets, a TV, their friends, the house, and oxygen.
This is a summarizing email written by Sarit Alfital, a teacher from Mordei HaGeta'ot school after the lecture:
On Friday, 4th graders gathered to hear a lecture on the spaceship project. From the start, the lecturer successfully drew the students in. They showed great interest, participated in the discussion, asked intelligent questions and, most of all; they were excited by the movie clips and the slide show that illustrated the topic. At the end of the lecture, after time for questions, many of the students still came up to the lecturer to ask further questions. The lecturer was very patient and answered every question.
When I began teaching, some of the students said the lecture was very interesting, and some even said they wanted to go to the moon.
There is no doubt that lectures such as this one expose the students to various topics and enrich their lives, and the message conveyed to the students is priceless. Well done!
Danny Deutsch, another SpaceIL project's volunteer, came to the Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak, and told 3rd-6th graders about the vision to land the first Israeli spaceship on the moon.
The students at Noam Mohaliver School also showed a keen interest in the lecture and asked many questions. Some even stayed during their recess to ask Danny questions that they did not get to ask during the meeting.
These are some of the questions asked:
-Are you currently in the process of building the ship?
-How long does it take to reach the moon?
-Have Israelis already been on the moon?
-How does the astronaut carry such a large weight?
-How does the astronaut stay alive on the moon?
-When will you finish building the spaceship?
-How is a satellite launched?
-Why aren't you building a manned ship?
-Why is it more profitable to launch the spacecraft with a different missile?
-How will the spaceship land on the moon? It arrives very fast, won't it crash?
-What is the difference between an astronaut and an astronomer?
-What happens if the spaceship runs out of fuel before reaching the moon?
-What is a satellite?
-When the ship is launched, and parts fall from the missile, do they fall on the earth?
-Why do you want to land on the moon and not on the sun?
-Why does the astronaut jump on the moon instead of walking?
-Where do astronauts go other than the moon?
-Were people who had been on the Moon back to Earth?
-How is it that there is gravity in the earth and in space there is not?
The girls summarized the lecture on the spaceship project, saying, It was very fun- good luck!
In the photo: Arnon school students during Noa Katanov's lecture about the spaceship project.
Guest Entrepreneur: Ronni Shtekler - Learn English and Remember Founder
Ronni Shtekler, English teacher and coordinator at the HaIrisim school in Karmiel, has been exposing her students to entrepreneurship for a few years as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.
This year, Ronni decided to teach 6th grades the module: Entrepreneurship: anyone can do it, from among the materials in the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
Ronni is also an entrepreneur: She conceived, developed and now markets and sells a kit for English teaching named Learn English and Remember. This is Ronni 's personal connection to entrepreneurship.
Ronni wrote her thoughts on the lesson she taught her students. Read about it here.
Guest Entrepreneur: Sibel Zuaretz - Founder of Yoga Flowers for Children
Sibel has a special connection to the EFK Program, and after discovering a beautiful woman, we haven't let her go, and invite her to be a guest lecturer every year during GEW.
The story of Sibel's project is extraordinary - as a girl, she didn't like to exercise and suffered from various illnesses and aches. Then she discovered yoga, learned about it, saw that yoga helped her, and became a yoga instructor. Due to its benefit to children, parents asked for children's lessons, and so the business grew.
Today, Yoga Flowers offers yoga classes and workshops for children and families.
This year, Sibel was invited to lecture at the Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak.
Sibel told the students about the new Mandala kit she created, saying, when the kit arrives at home, it allows me to expand my influence, and to reach more children and families without seeing them physically.
Nurse clinics use the kit to develop conversations with young patients and new mothers, and use it to teach their children about the world of Mandalas.
An example of an incredible Mandala:
At the end of the lecture Dvorah Bar-On, the school's principal, wrote: It was wonderful. She is an engaging woman.
Guest Entrepreneur: Ronit Meiri - "Yes, You Can" Founder
Ronit is a personal trainer for achieving goals, empowerment, and self-image.
Ronit strengthens and teaches people to believe in themselves and their abilities, and to connect to the skills that can help them.
As a guest lecturer at Kaplan school in Petah Tikva, Ronit showed the students a lesson that she gives annually at her daughter's school during a day called Calm Day. The lesson is about vision boards, individuality, good deeds and more.
Ronit's business page is on Facebook: Ronit Meiri- Yes You Can.
Here is a photo from Ronit's lecture.
Guest Entrepreneur: Ran Ne'eman - High-tech entrepreneur
Ran has 20 years of high-tech experience in various companies and startups.
Ran is a co-founder of Accells, a company that developed a system for confirming user identity using a cell phone. The system that Accells developed is used to increase safety on the network websites, remote access systems, and cash registers. The company was sold to Ping Identity in 2013.
Today Ran manages identity, maintenance, and mobile products at Ping Identity.
Ran has been taking part in Global Entrepreneurship Week as a guest lecturer for some years. This year, Ran lectured at the Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak and Kaplan school in Petah Tikva.
His lecture was: Mistakes you'll make as entrepreneurs. A review of lessons learned while developing a project, adapted for children.
Guest Entrepreneur: Moshe Porat - Social and Technological Entrepreneur
Moshe has been founding and developing technology companies in the fields of medicine, Cleantech and IT for over ten years.
Moshe owns four companies, and in the last five years, he has been promoting a social project as well. His work includes: board member at Presentense, promoting technological education, work during your 40s, women entrepreneurship, and more.
Moshe founded MESH - a place for entrepreneurs and companies in Modi'in, in order to promote the city as a high-tech city.
Moshe lectured in front of parents and students at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan, as part of the Coffee-Entrepreneur event.
Guest Entrepreneur: Rotem Linado - Young Technological Entrepreneur
Rotem, a high school student, developed an entrepreneurial center at his Ramat HaSharon school, called Together.
The center is a place for students and teens to promote project ideas through the promotion of the school's unique subjects.
Rotem's project gained the support of the school's principal and the Municipal Education Division.
Rotem spoke to parents and teachers at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan during the Coffee-Entrepreneur event. Rotem told the audience how, unlike the Mordei HaGeta'ot school, which teaches leadership, entrepreneurship and business management, his school did not encourage entrepreneurship. However, before 9th grade, he began attending entrepreneurial conferences and met friends from other cities.
Rotem spoke about how he combines his studies with entrepreneurship. Whenever I learned something new in school, I took it to the world of entrepreneurship. This is how, for example, we developed a guitar combined with an iPad.
When Rotem arrived at the Alon high school in Ramat HaSharon, he checked which of his friends were interested in entrepreneurship, and thus developed the entrepreneurship center at the school.
The group he founded met with the school's principal in a meeting which Rotem describes as interesting, since each student shared his ideas.
The principal, who supported the idea, arranged a meeting with the mayor of Ramat HaSharon, after which another meeting was held with the education department, who told Rotem it was a matter of time before there would be a final exam in entrepreneurship.
Rotem wrapped up his lecture saying, It's important for me to explain how much we were appreciated at school, and that they found our start-up interesting, which made us love school even more.
Read more about Rotem's project on our page: Kids initiate.
Guest Entrepreneur: Amit Saban - Young Technological Entrepreneur
Amit was a guest lecturer at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan, and gave his lecture during the Coffee-Entrepreneur event for parents.
Amit tells about himself:
I am 15 years and 9 months old, in 10th grade and study at Shfayim.
In addition, I am in my second year at Tel Aviv University's gifted youth program.
Lately, I have developed an application that will help teens and the whole public to be exposed to the topic of the Holocaust.
The goal of the application is to provide a platform for Holocaust survivors and to allow their stories to live many years after their death.
I am also a partner in Apple's Siri program and my goal is to make it speak Hebrew.
A few sentences that describe me:
If you will it, it is not a dream. A sentence once said by Herzl, and one with which I certainly agree.
The sky is the limit to success.
We don't need to give up on our dreams and projects in life, because almost anything is achievable as long as you have a goal, motivation, and will.
Guest Entrepreneur: Ayelet Titelbaum - founder and CEO of the educational project Idea - creative activities
Ayelet took part in Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014, giving a lecture to parents during the Coffee-Entrepreneur event at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan.
Ayelet tells her story as an entrepreneur:
I live in Gadera, and I am married with three kids, Maya, Amit, and Tamar.
For many years, I worked in instruction: as a trainer, a teacher, managing trainers, and as a project and development manager at Eshkolot Hashiva.
I have been writing and developing training programs and training aids for many years, and I finally decided to develop a product for myself.
Today I'm a training developer and a mentor for training teams. I hold a master's degree in education, a teaching certificate and a diploma for group training.
How did it all begin?
Before my middle daughter's 6th birthday, I decided that I would organize and operate the party myself, using training kits for activities.
A creative kit that contains quality, unique and challenging materials that lead to an exciting experience, built upon the belief that anyone can lead activities on their own!
Ayelet brought three kits intended for different groups:
-A kit for teachers
-A kit for birthdays
-A kit for trips
Watch Ayelet's presentation on the project Idea - creative activities:
Guest Entrepreneur: Niv Kalderon - Technological Entrepreneur, Digital Marketing Consultant, and Lecturer
Niv, a guest lecturer at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan, gave a lecture to 8th graders. The lecture was about wearable technologies and projects for the time we live in.
Niv is the founder and CEO of a startup dealing with the development of wearable technology to be used in emergencies, rescue and security missions.
In addition, in the last few years, he has been consulting start-ups, foundations and government offices in various areas:
Network marketing, branding, viral creation, crisis management and characterizing digital products.
For the last few years, he has been lecturing and speaking to different groups such as associations and companies at various conferences about modernism, social media, digital communication, wearable computers, crisis management online and more.
A summary of Niv's lecture:
The wearable technologies that have been introduced in the last year will create a huge revolution in our interconnectedness with each other and with the world around us.
Wearable technology is an extension of smartphones, which revolutionized many industries as well as our private life, starting with the introduction of the simple cellular phone way back in the 90s.
After his lecture, Niv posted the following on Facebook:
Today I gave two 45 minute lectures, one after the other, on wearable technologies, to 8th graders at a school in Ramat Gan. It was so cool!
1. The walls of the school were full of values like entrepreneurship, leadership, and guidance, while next to these values were other texts describing the importance of knowing how to give a presentation, read data off a chart and networking. It's fantastic!
2. 90% of the children have an iPad, and 100% of them have smartphones. The wonder in their eyes when I told them that both were invented on Star Trek! The same with elevator doors, Google Glasses, Bluetooth, and a few other things.
3. Relating the 19th-century pocket watch to modern watches and hearing them say that watches are just an accessory.
4. Letting them try Google Glasses while their friends enjoyed their expressions.
5. Twice, they wouldn't let me leave the classroom before everyone had a chance to try the glasses, including the teachers.
Guest Entrepreneur: Ayala Geron - Board Game Inventor and Social Entrepreneur
Ayala is an entrepreneur at her core, and combines her activities (beyond her time working in high-tech) with both business and social projects.
For example, she creates board games for children, and volunteers at retirement homes.
During her lectures at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan and the Kaplan school in Petah Tikva, Ayala gave examples of both types of projects.
The goal of her lecture was to explain what constitutes a project, what the entrepreneur must invest, and what they can gain.
Here is Ayala's definition of an entrepreneurial project: A project must make waves and influence people.
Ayala told the students about the development stages of the game, Elephant and Cat on a trail adventure, and how she first chose the name Notch.
Ayala showed the students another version of the game, with a different color box- yellow and not purple, like the one sold in Israel. She explained that the company which she works with and helps her develop the game and markets it, Fox Mind, found that people abroad do not like the purple color.
Ayala urged the students to become entrepreneurs in a field that is important to them and that they feel connected to.
After Ayala spoke about a book she wrote, which was published by the Center for Educational Technology for the benefit of youths with a mental disability, the students suggested her to write a book about how she developed and gained success with board games.
Guest Entrepreneur: Sasha Tabak - Robotics and The Internet of Things Entrepreneur
Sasha is an entrepreneur and a Robotics researcher at the Technion, a key figure in the field of Robotics and the Internet of Things in Israel. Both fields are developing quickly and are anticipated to change the way in which we function in our daily lives.
Sasha is the founder and manager of two MeetUp groups in Israel, Robotics Israel, and IoT- Internet of Things. These communities include hundreds of entrepreneurs who attend monthly meet-ups that Sasha organizes, where new connections are made between members.
The meetups consist of lectures which can be accessed remotely, and provide a stage for new projects in the field.
Sasha also founded and manages OptiBotics, an educational startup in the Robotics field, and he is also in charge of the Robotics Department at Ort Ebin in Ramat Gan.
These days Sasha is promoting the development of an entrepreneurial club (Accelerator) in the field of Robotics and the Internet of Things, in which Israeli start-ups will be incorporated into a field that is growing and accelerating.
Sasha accepted an invitation to come to the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan as a guest entrepreneur and talk to 6th graders.
Guest Entrepreneur: Danny Sharon the Magician - Founded a Business for Magic Tricks
Danny started a private business in juggling and magic tricks, a business that began as a hobby. Danny has been a computer systems analyst for 30 years, and managed a large company's computing system for over 20 years.
After work, Danny picked up juggling and would practice 2-3 hours a day.
After a few years of practice, he became a professional and began performing.
Three years ago, he decided to open his own business in juggling and magic, left his secure workplace, and dedicated time and resources to build a business plan. (Market research, finances, marketing plan and more...)
According to this plan, he built his business. Danny explained that it's important to have a relative advantage in your business, and his advantage was that he himself was the magician and juggler, meaning that he understood the field and could advise customers that came to him using his relevant experience.
The business plan included setting a target audience, and because not many people are interested in circus accessories, he decided to also direct his business at children since they like magic.
Danny continued and shared a debate he had when deciding on the location of his store: Should he open the store in a shopping mall or on the street? And if on the street, then where? The students tried to help with different opinions and explained the pros and cons of different locations.
Guest Entrepreneur: Sarah Bar - Social Application Entrepreneur
Sarah, a particularly energetic entrepreneur, tells students how she got the idea for the application that she promotes these days:
People today are used to sharing where they are, what they are doing, where they were and what they did, all in the present and past tense.
We strive to promote a culture of sharing future plans, so that people can share what they plan to do in the future with their community.
This actually opens a window of various opportunities for them, their friends, their acquaintances and anyone exposed to their plans, and also for people that they don't know, or businesses and offers that could be useful for them.
This is actually a culture of sharing the future, which creates a map of occurrences and events made up by users (like Waze, whose maps were made by the drivers themselves while driving).
What we actually create with our application is a Future Database, which is really a window into the future.
Sarah was delighted to be invited to the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan as a guest lecturer during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014. She even visited the school before her lecture so that she could make the lecture relevant to the children's lives.
Here is a post that Sarah wrote after her first visit to the school:
Guest Entrepreneur: Sharon Mualem - Founder of EVT, Online Fitness Project
Sharon has been visiting schools for a few years, and tells students about the online fitness project, EVT, that she founded with her husband Sasi.
"We are a startup company in the field of fitness.
We took the fitness gym as-is and digitized it.
We offer video tape fitness classes to clients.
We offer a large range of classes, such as Pilates, aerobic dance, kickboxing and more...
The idea is that anyone can train, anytime and anywhere."
Sharon asked the students why fitness is important and explained the connection between fitness and health, beauty and aesthetics, feeling good and success. If you are healthy and feel good about yourself, then you express vitality.
Sharon explained the advantages of the online fitness project, especially in a time when parents work long hours, people struggle with the cost of living, and technological advances are booming.
According to Sharon, as our needs grow, we tend to neglect our bodies. We work a lot, sleep too little, busy raising children and struggle to stay fit. This struggle is exactly what the online fitness project aims to help. Anyone can exercise in their free time, in front of their computer, with qualified trainers and with a personal touch.
Sharon ended her lecture with an example of a children's fitness class.
The site offers personal guidance by trainers and accompanies the trainee to reach their goals. (Individual attention is given to each trainee by the system).
Guest Entrepreneur: Liat Henriette Silber - Milat Hayom Founder
Liat was invited to lecture at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan, and to tell the story of how she published her book, Milat Hayom (word of the day), and the accompanying flashcards.
"My name is Liat, I am a dance and movement teacher, a reflexologist and a leader of women's circles.
Following a health problem that came into my life two years ago, I began writing one word a day that symbolized inspiration for me.
This is how I created the Milat Hayom project (a book and kit of cards).
Milat Hayom is an inspiration in a word that drives people to action and makes the day wonderful.
Since I was unable to fund all of the project's expenses, I tried crowdfunding on Headstart and succeeded, in 50 days, to raise money from 85 supporters who purchased the book and cards."
Behind this short summary is a woman who experienced a breakdown in her life and took advantage of it, using it to open new doors and a new path. She used tools and methods that she was not familiar with, but decided to just try and dare, and found success!
Liat also accepted the invitation to lecture at the Katznelson school, lecturing 6th graders in the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program. Read more on our Guest Lecturers page
Guest Entrepreneur: Einat Shamir - Shoval- Threadwork, design, creation and education Founder
Einat talks about how she began a thread work business:
"I always loved crafting and learning new things.
I was especially drawn to thread work and to the huge variety included (and to the fact that they are fashionable, and the materials don't make a mess...)
I began collecting patterns at a young age, I learned all I could, I researched in books and magazines, and later on, the internet as well. I designed, invented and combined materials and styles, and learned how things were built in order to renovate them.
When I decided to start a business, I wanted to continue doing exactly what I love. It was a long process which finally ended up in a business made up of products that I designed and created by hand (mostly jewelry and accessories), lessons where I teach children and adults to knit, cross-stitch, crochet, weave, knot and more, and creating small and cute products. I also sell weaving kits that I developed."
Einat told the students at Mordei HaGeta'ot school about how she started her business:
"At first, I realized that in order to make money from my hobby, I needed to focus, so I decided to focus on hats. So for every hat I liked, I made a sample and produced more to sell.
In addition, as soon as I decided to start teaching, I understood that the best way to teach is to provide a sort of recipe, and this is how I taught people how to make hats. But eventually, selling hats became problematic, since stores are full of cheap hats from China, and for me, just the fabric costs more than a Chinese hat. Therefore, I only sold my hats in a store selling local crafts.
The biggest market for hats is the Orthodox Jewish market.
8 years ago, I taught a hat-making class at Wizo, and I put together a workbook about hats. It turned out that it was the only Hebrew workbook explaining how to make hats. This realization exposed my business to new directions, and I began making more products: berets, rings, and accessories."
"At the same time, I started looking for additional marketing channels and began teaching at schools and clubs.
A year ago, I developed two kits that teach a Japanese technique and can be used to make different things, such as shoelaces or bracelets. The greatest advantage of this technique is that it can be packed in a box, and you can easily follow the instructions at home."
Einat explained that craft work improves concentration, motor abilities and, brain development, especially when both hands are working and when every hand is facing a different direction.
As of today, Einat sells her products online. Among her products are earrings, bracelets, rings, belts and Japanese method kits.
Regarding children, Einat's goal is to visit schools and birthday parties. Einat also offers adult workshops for organizations, workers' councils, and places that will enjoy the workshops and benefit from crafting.
To wrap up, Einat says "My favorite is when people ask, 'what? You made this?'"
Towards the end of her lecture, Einat emphasized how fun it was to craft with threads and gave out yarn with which the students made pom-poms.
The wide array of activities that Einat offers is available on her website: Shoval Hats and Accessories.
The Entrepreneurship for Kids Program thanks and supports its guest entrepreneurs, who voluntarily lecture for students, by exposing their projects on this website.
Guest Entrepreneur: Yoram Cohan - Technological and Culinary Entrepreneur
The Entrepreneurship for Kids Program got to know Yoram after working with the Arnon school, where Yoram teaches the program. In light of Yoram's entrepreneurship background, he was invited to lecture at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2014.
Yoram served in the IDF for 25 years, where he began as a reserve officer and ended as a Lieutenant Colonel in computer services.
As part of his service in the field of computing, Yoram filled a variety of senior positions, including deputy commander and chief instructor of the computing school (Mamram), head of IDF computer security and head of planning and management of war games for the general sector.
Yoram started a number of projects during this time, among them a simulator for senior managers to deal with strategic dilemmas.
Today Yoram is an educator at Masad Nachshon and a teacher at the Arnon school in Ramat Gan. He is also a partner in managing a strategic project around the world.
Yoram's formal education includes a Bachelor in Economics from Bar-Ilan University, an MBA from Ben-Gurion University and a senior teaching degree from the Beit Berl Academic Center.
Yoram runs a website for meat-lovers:
Guest Entrepreneur: Tamir Schwartz - Technological Entrepreneur
Tamir has two children at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school, and has been lecturing during Global Entrepreneurship Week for several years.
Tamir is an information systems engineer and Technion graduate, with a Masters degree in law.
I worked at Matrix for 7 years as a senior project manager and manager of the development and design department.
In the last 7 years, I've been an entrepreneur, and worked in a number of start-ups, including the startup I founded and funded.
I currently work at an internet company as a product manager.
Tamir's lecture was: The rise and fall of a project.
Tamir opened his lecture by asking the students to shoot a ball into a small basket, with the assumption that they would not succeed.
He then asked the students to suggest solutions to the problem, and the consensus was that shooting the ball would be easier if the rules were changed.
In this way, Tamir illustrated that entrepreneurs don't say it's hard or, it's impossible, but instead see hardship as an obstacle that can be solved and overcome.
Guest Entrepreneur: Michal Brotfeld - Art in Threads Founder
This is the second year that Michal is a guest lecture. This year, she lectured at the Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak and at the Yad Mordechai school in Bat Yam.
Michal speaks about how she went from a public relations career to a private business in a field that she had loved for many years- art in threads.
Michal tells the students about her experience as an entrepreneur, the process of defining a market, marketing for the selected market, the challenges she met with and how she overcame them, or still deals with them. She also spoke about how she uses Facebook as a marketing tool, and how she distinguishes Art in Threads from other similar businesses.
Here is a photo from Michal's lecture at the Yad Mordechai school in Bat Yam.
Guest Entrepreneur: Ilanit Beno - Founder of A Taste of More Catering
This is Ilanit's second year as a guest lecturer during Global Entrepreneurship Week. This year she lectured at the Yad Mordechai school in Bat Yam.
Ilanit is a confectioner with a dairy catering company, and leads baking and cooking workshops for children and adults.
Ilanit founded her catering company four years ago in Rehovot, where she lives. Her target audiences are private customers and those holding events with up to 100 guests.
In her lecture, Ilanit spoke about the process of founding a business, how she chose the name, the logo, marketing strategies, and her plan for the future.
Ilanit urged the students to choose a field they liked, because then they would commit to success with all their heart.
Guest Entrepreneur: Eldad Caspi - Creator and Leader of Human Nature Program
Eldad holds a Master of Science degree in medicine from the Tel Aviv University Medical School, and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies and Marine Biology. He is a certified group guide as well.
He has been a senior, personal, family and group coach for adults and teens, for over seven years.
He created and leads the Human Nature program, a social and leadership project for self, social and environmental-realization.
The program focuses on the individual, their character, desires, original and creative thought, increasing self-confidence, love of nature and the environment, widening and deepening interpersonal connections, promoting communication, the choice not to give up, and more.
Eldad's lecture at Yad Mordechai in Bat Yam and Kaplan in Petah Tikva was: Is it human nature to be an entrepreneur?
Guest Entrepreneur: Innon Boim - PT Portal Founder
During his lecture for 6th graders in Petah Tikva, Innon spoke about the PTNeto Portal- a highly-respected portal in Petah Tikva that includes objective information on all that is happening in the city. The PTNeto Portal has set itself the goal of becoming a home for small businesses in Petah Tikva.
Innon wrote in the portal about Global Entrepreneurship Week at the Kaplan school, and about other educational activities.
Inn Boim is also the CEO and owner of Simple Finance, a senior economist, an entrepreneur, a lecturer and economic success mentor for families and business, a proud resident of Petah Tikva, who decided to develop the portal as an online platform to provide information to residents of Petah Tikva and the surrounding area.
In the PTNeto Portal, one can advertise events and write articles/blogs, add oneself to lists of business and write on different message boards (organized by type of business), such as real estate, wanted ads, cars, etc. In addition, it is possible to help sponsor or cooperate with events taking place within the portal.
Innon says, Using the Simple Finance method, I successfully direct my clients and provide them with a practical solution, through which they can forget about overdrafts, relax and follow their personal dreams, like an international vacation, a home makeover, festive events, education for their kids, retirement and more. Thanks to the Simple Finance system, my clients are mindful of their cash flow and know how to fully control it.
Innon used the experience and knowledge he gathered as a financial advisor to develop a finance course for schools. The course is intended for schools that understand the need to teach and implement curricula in finance, and for management and teams of teachers who urge the next generation to enrich its knowledge and conduct it wisely. The course is hands-on and promotes enrichment, and provides tools and skills required by every child in Israel. A child who understands the financial significance will better appreciate money and be a valuable part of the system in the future.
Guest Entrepreneur: Yossi Katz - Yossiversity Founder
Yossi told the students how he came to manage the Yossiversity center.
I'm not an expert in entrepreneurship; I do what my heart tells me. I know that for a project to be established, you need a new idea that has a demand. The entrepreneur needs to stick to his goals, know how to make decisions, sometimes, be brave and to be focused on his goals.
The realization that I want to help kids hit me when I was 12; My mother, who is a psychologist, left an article on the table and I, who loved to read, read it. The article was about a student in London who was unpopular, and during a field trip, no group wanted her to sleep in their tent. When the girl spoke to the trip organizers, they sent her to a different room where she was alone. The next morning everyone searched for the girl, who had run away, and left a note in her room saying A human stayed in this room, not a monkey.
And so after reading this article, when I was in 7th grade, I knew that all I wanted to do in life was making people feel better so that they could follow their dreams.
Later Yossi studied Psychology, examined many people and became a popular lecturer. But, he says, I never felt that I was achieving my dream.
Yossi came to the realization that in order to achieve his dreams, he should help children, after a workshop for parents of children with ADHD. At this point, Yossi understood that all a child needs is one adult who believes in them.
And so at the age of 35, Yossi left his work and hung up signs around the city, in which he offered his services as a math teacher. This marketing strategy didn't work, so he began working with autistic children by word of mouth, and began getting students. At first, he taught at home and despite difficulties providing for his family and a decrease in his financial status, he believed in his dream and slowly gathered more students. Eventually, he rented an apartment, hired more teachers who learned his method, and as he got more students, he widened the space, even asking neighbors to leave so they could use the apartments as classrooms. This required creativity, commitment, some rudeness, and bravery. This method proved successful, and today Yossi rents an entire floor in a building and is living his dream- helping children and making them believe in themselves.
Yossi explained that being an entrepreneur isn't easy, and it's difficult to fail, but failure is a failure only if you don't learn from it. If you do, then you gain experience.
Yossi believes that in every student there is a spark and that everyone has a dream, and urges everyone not to fear, to realize their dreams, and never allow fear to take charge. Only then will change come, and with it, opportunities for growth.
Guest Entrepreneur: Galit Zamler - Entrepreneurship for Kids Program founder
Galit Zamler, who is the brains behind the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, attends several lectures during GEW, visiting different schools who run the program.
Galit tells the students about Global Entrepreneurship Week, about the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, which they study, how it came to be, and how it is developing.
Afterward, Galit runs an activity that highlights the importance of teamwork to the success of a project.
This year, Galit was invited to lecture at the Yad Mordechai school in Bat Yam, the Kaplan school in Petah Tikva, and the Noam Mohaliver school in Bnei Brak.
Galit also lectured at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan as part of the Coffee-Entrepreneur event for parents and students. She spoke about the importance of educating about entrepreneurship.
Additional Entrepreneurs
Additional entrepreneurs came to share their experience with students, among them: Adi El from Wings of Crembo, a movement for children with special needs, the first and only of its kind in the world; Gal Flixbrodt and Arthur Benson from Guides for Connection in a workshop called Gaming as a social entrepreneur tool. Avivi Gemer in a balloon and chocolate workshop; Dr. Oleg Globrodsky in a lecture, The Race to Start a Project; Shelly Bar Siman Tov in a lecture on community business projects and more.
The Entrepreneurship for Kids Program values and thanks all of the entrepreneurs who came and shared their stories with the children, and did so willingly and voluntarily.
We wish you all good luck and success.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 took place in Israel during the 17-24 of November 2013.
Nine primary schools celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 thanks to the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program via ceremonies, workshops, activities and lectures from entrepreneurs in various fields.
Galit Zamler appreciates and would like to thank all the partners and entrepreneurs who arrived this week to schools and inspired the young students. We all wish them great success on their way.
The Tze'elon school, which educates for entrepreneurship and leadership, announced the GEW in advance, and a countdown banner was hung at the school's entrance.
This week was opened on 15.11.2013 with a school ceremony, attended by all of the students, parents, teachers, the Director of the Education Council and the school supervisor.
The ceremony featured a greeting from the principal, Ronit Barel, words from the school supervisor, Victoria Aziel, and from the chairman of the parent's council, Shuly Shtern. Afterward, the school band performed in front of the guests.
Hadar Cohen Harel, a teacher, along with the school's staff, prepared for the opening day. On this day, various stations were held throughout the school explaining the various projects. Each student chose a project to take part in throughout the year.
Representatives from each class explained the projects.
A presentation about the GEW at the Tze'elon school, and the meaning of the week.
The school was decorated and prepared for the ceremony, there was a lot of excitement and the final outcome can be seen in this clip: GEW Opening at Tze'elon School:
Entrepreneurs who Came to the Tze'elon School in Be'er Ya'akov:
In addition to the entrepreneurs listed below, the following entrepreneurs also visited the Tze'elon school to help enrich the students' knowledge in entrepreneurship:
Eli Shachori, owner of Bertha's Angels restaurant; Efrat Dabir, lactation advisor; Chany Bienstock, school teacher and representative of the Shifra and Puah organization; Ronen Shemilovitz spoke about projects advancing mentally disabled children.
Doron Zekzer - The First Social Mall Founder
When he was 20, Doron was exposed to the existence of the fourth sector, and discovered that he has the ability to harness people to do for the benefit of society.
After working in the high-tech and participating in many social activities, Doron decided to establish The First Social Mall, a platform that allows social businesses to continue and do good, and allows people purchase products produced by people with medical needs.
Doron visited the Tze'elon school as a guest entrepreneur after having been invited by Hadar Cohen Harel, a teacher who saw the project and was charmed by it.
This clip features parts of his lecture to the students (in Hebrew):
Doron's messages to the students were:
- There is no limit of age in entrepreneurship and helping others also children can initiate things and improve reality.
- Helping others and taking care of other people and of the environment are much more important than wisdom, beauty, etc.
- When people are given the chance helping others through teamwork, they will usually be happy to do so.
- Teamwork helps promote agendas and projects.
- Doron recommended the film, Pay it forward.
- Don't be afraid to dream of ideas, even if the ideas seem very great. But it's better to start small and dream big.
- In team-building, it is important to find people who can complement your skills.
- It's important to ask others to help you realize your ideas.
- It's important to enjoy what you do.
Perry Shany - Volunteer at the SpaceIL Spaceship Project
The founders of the spaceship project SpaceIL set themselves an additional goal, apart from landing the first Israeli spaceship on the moon. They also decided to promote scientific and technological education, and to become an inspiration for an entire generation of kids.
As such, the project enlisted numerous volunteers who visit schools and speak about the project, connecting the students to the dream and getting them interested in technological science.
Perry Shany visited the school as a volunteer of SpaceIL and told the students how Yariv Bash is trying to fulfill the expected future that Bazuka jum predicted for him, "You will reach the moon by age 20". Although Yariv is no longer 20, he and his many partners set themselves this aspirational goal - landing an Israeli spaceship on the moon.
Here is a clip from Perry's lecture to the Tze'elon students:
Ran Ne'eman - Accells Project Partner
Ran Ne'eman, along with a group of entrepreneurs, founded the project Accells, a startup that provides security measures for a website and organizational log-in, through cell phones.
This project aims to replace the usernames and passwords used today, and make the identification process more reliable and simple.
During Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013, Ran gave lectures at the Tze'elon school in Be'er Ya'akov and at the Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan.
Here are some highlights that Ran provided to the students from his entrepreneurial experience:
- It's important to accept that we don't know everything.
- It's better to work in a team, so you get better results.
- Check yourself constantly and get better.
- Learn while doing.
- Know your project's target audience.
- Understand that projects have difficulties and challenges.
- An entrepreneur should know how to overcome difficulties, improve the project and move on.
- The project should be in a field that is important to you.
- Excellence in your field.
- Be alert to your surroundings and to new opportunities.
Roy Julus - Greenbo Founder
Roy Julus is the founder of the colorful potted plants project that has taken over balcony railings in Israeli homes and around the world. Roy came to tell the students about his business.
Roy told about how important it was for him that the production would be in Israel and thus contribute to the country's economy. In addition, Roy presented Greenbo's new product- flower pots that are a pillow as well as a bag, with a special technology that protects the plant's stability and allows water flow.
Roy shared this with the students and explained that it's important to always innovate and be aware of customers' needs. As a result, his company allows its customers to build flower pots in color combinations based on their own tastes.
Hani Pe'er - Author of Greetings, Ceremonies and Speeches
After eight years in a middle school in Rishon LeZion, Hani Pe'er was searching for a new direction and inspiration.
She turned her writing experience, gained from writing greeting cards for teachers at the school, into a career, and began writing greeting cards for anything from births to whatever else. She then developed her writing into speech writing, and today is a professional speech writer for CEOs, mayors, etc.
In her lecture she spoke about the bravery needed to make a career change in the middle of your life, to dare and succeed in your field, and the importance of developing and sticking to it, all out of a belief from pursuing a hobby and doing what you love will make you happy.
Rinat Ben Simon - Minglelink Founder
Rinat Ben Simon told the students that after 10 years of working in communication and marketing, she founded Minglelink, a company aimed at the B2B business sector. The company offers outsourcing for media management in social channels.
The company's vision is to enable every individual and business to maximize the benefits of digital media and help drive it towards success.
Rinat told about how she works with Keren-Shemesh (a philanthropic organization which aims is to assist young entrepreneurs) that helps her, along with a mentor, to set up her business and manage it, in order to success.
Rinat's tips for the young entrepreneurs:
- Do what you love.
- You can find areas you love and that you can work with in the future, even when you're young.
- Academic studies contribute to success.
- It's important to stay updated with courses because our world keeps changing.
- Advertising on Facebook is convenient, easy and accessible.
- Every business can advertise locally to its target audience through Facebook.
Eli Vidabsky - Webshout Founder
Eli Vidabsky exposed the students to the subject of online marketing, and told them about the technology tools that his company developed and provides to help promote businesses online.
The students were interested in the technological methods he spoke about, and thanked him after his lecture.
Ofra Avramovitz - Mamanet Founder
In 2005 Ofra Avramovitz joined a mother's netball team in her daughters' school in Kfar Saba.
Ofra fell in love with the game and the idea, and decided to set up the Mamanet league. Since then she has been voluntarily managing the growing and developing league.
The goal of the Mamanet project is to give mothers the opportunity to play as part of a team in a competitive sport.
30 cities already take part in Mamanet, and about 5,000 mothers play in hundreds of teams around the country.
Ofra told the students how she came up with the idea, how it grew to be so big and how she aims to make it even bigger, and spread to more schools.
Eyal Amiel - Project to Inspire Children
Eyal visited two schools during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013: The Tze'elon school in Be'er Ya'akov and the HaShalom school in Mevaseret Zion.
Eyal told the students about the bicycle business he founded abroad, about his failures, and about the lessons he learned and the experience he gained.
Eyal's personal story of failure, and how he grew from that into self-confidence and starting a new project, inspired the students to believe in themselves and in their abilities.
Eyal was able to tell the story at a level the young students would understand, and this ability helped him create much interest among the students, and get his message to them.
Thanks to Entrepreneurs
At the end of the lectures, each entrepreneur received a certificate like this:
Sigal Hadad, the Amirim coordinator at Hashalom school, leads a group of fourth graders at weekly meetings on entrepreneurship..
During GEW the students watched a slide show about this week and heard an explanation about their part in it.
In addition, Eyal Amiel, a guest entrepreneur visited the school.
Eyal told the students his personal story, which led him and his girlfriend to move to Manhattan in New York, establish a business of American rickshaws connected to mountain bikes and offer ride services around Manhattan. This led him to a great opportunity in the bicycles field, and provide him with a wonderful journey of experience and adventure. However the project did not become a reality, and so he experienced failure.
In his lecture, Eyal gave the students insights and inspiring beliefs about success and failure.
For example: The fact that failure is part of success, just as success stems from the ability to keep going on and on, despite failures along the way, until one day you experience success. Just like a toddler taking his first steps, who stumbles and falls until he succeeds.
Today Eyal works in a pet store in Holon, where he helped the owner to expand the business, thanks to his academic studies and experience as an entrepreneur.
At the same time, Eyal told the students about his new project, which focuses on different and creative education for children up to age 20, which aims to provide them with practical tools to create happiness, wealth and achievement in their lives.
The goal is to teach them that there are no failures in life, only results, and if we don't reach the results we strive for, we must learn from that experience and use the lessons learned to make better decisions and strategies in the future.
The new project combines many additional examples that will enrich the children and inspire them.
Orna Naftali, social coordinator at Aley Givah shared a presentation on GEW with a selected group of students participating in the Entrepreneurship for Kids program.
The students were first exposed to the existence of this week, and learned that it is celebrated in many countries around the world, through thousands of events and millions of participants, and that they too have a part in these events.
During the week, students learned a lesson from the entrepreneurship program, and after a successful cooperation with the SpaceIL entrepreneurs, they got to hear a lecture about the first Israeli Spaceship that will fly to the moon.
Noam Tene, who is an active participant in the spaceship project, lectured to the students about the spaceship project and told them about all the stages of the project, from the birth of the idea by Yariv Bash, CEO and founder of SpaceIL, through to enlisting project partners using Facebook, signing on leading Israeli companies in the flight and space fields, and enlisting volunteers to lecture in front of students. In doing so, they hope to develop a new generation of Israeli students who aspire to be space scientists.
About a month prior to Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013, the Lev HaSharon Democratic School joined those who teach the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
Shoshi Amrami, a teacher at the school, said that she led the school to join the program, and convinced the school's principal, Yuval Shapira.
During the week, a group of students from the 7th, 8th and 9th grades, who chose the entrepreneurship and smart consumption track, learned one module from the program.
In addition, the students learned about the GEW, watched a slide show that was made for them and saw how they, too, participate in the week.
The Ramot Weizmann School in Yavne took part in Global Entrepreneurship Week for the first time, with the help of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
The school held a ceremony for all of the students, and invited guest lecturers who shared with the students their stories as entrepreneurs.
The Entrepreneurs who Visited Ramot Weizmann School in Yavne:
Sharon Mualem - Social Entrepreneur and EVT Online Sport Founder
Sharon is a social entrepreneur who works to help sick children, as well as a business entrepreneur who founded, along with her partner Sasi Mualem, the Online Sports Project, EVT.
EVT lets people train and improve their fitness without leaving their homes, with certified fitness trainers and programs based on individual abilities. This is all achieved through an internet connection.
Also available are tips, guidance and support, just like a fitness gym, but at home.
Sharon told the students about the process of setting up a project, the difficulties they met with along the way, the dream that comes true and the need to fundraise in order to market the project.
At the end of the meeting, the students were happy and excited when Sharon showed them part of a fitness class on the website.
Ilanit Beno - A Taste of More Confectionery and Catering Founder
Ilanit always had a sense of design and aesthetics, and from a young age, she loved baking cakes and cookies, cooking for family and friends, and decorating cakes for birthdays and family occasions.
At some point, she decided to turn her hobby into a career, and studied design and confectionery. Afterward, she specialized in chocolate and desserts.
Today, Ilanit specializes in baking cakes and cookies, in cooking and baking for orders, in chocolate creations and she leads workshops.
Ilanit founded the A Taste of More Catering in Rehovot. It is a daily catering service for private customers and events with up to 100 guests.
Ilanit told the students how she got to her current occupation, how she founded her business, how she markets her catering service, and more.
Here is a short clip of Ilanit's lecture:
Ilanit shared some tips with the students for starting a business, from her own experience:
- Do what you love
- Consult with people you trust
- The support of your local surroundings is important to help a business get on its feet.
- It's better to focus on one specialty
- It's very important to study your field very well
- A business' name and logo need to be related to the business concept
- We need to be aware of our limits and get help from professionals in areas we don't understand, and which aren't at the heart of the business.
Sarit Maor Circles Shop Founder
Sarit opened her store, Circles. It is a small shop for clothing, accessories and gifts for babies and children, which offers a different shopping experience.
The store is in Moshav Bnaya and provides a calm and relaxing environment, appropriate for mothers with babies and children. The store also has a yard, a lactation station, a changing station and a changing room.
Sarit told the students how she had the idea as a mother of four, how she fitted out the area of the store to her customer needs, and how great the satisfaction is, despite the difficulties.
Here is a short clip from Sarit's lecture:
Sarit spoke to the students about the project's advantages, and the difficulties she'd undergone, and shared the lessons she learned from the entrepreneurial process:
- A project turns an opportunity into something real.
- Define a target audience.
- Find your business's uniqueness
- An entrepreneur must always think about renovating and improving.
- An entrepreneur often works alone.
- The entrepreneur should be aware of customer responses and adapt the business to their needs and expectations.
- An entrepreneur should know how to manage time and budget.
- An entrepreneur should deal with challenges and difficulties and know how to turn difficulties into challenges.
- The upside of entrepreneurship is joy and fun, because they chose what to work in, and are independent in decision making.
- The greatest satisfaction is when others, especially customers, see that I love what I do.
Rakefet Becca Moses - A Gift for Life Founder, Fitness for the Third Age
Rakefet discovered that fitness helps improve health and became a fitness trainer.
When she discovered that her mother was unable to walk due to knee pain, even after undergoing surgery, she decided to help her, and from there she became an expert in elderly fitness.
Using methods she'd learned and those she developed on her own, she found a way to help elderly people in dealing with pain and feeling better.
In this clip, you can watch parts of Rakefet's lecture to the students.
Rakefet gave the students some tips and advice from her experience as an entrepreneur:
- Every project begins with an idea.
- An idea comes from a need.
- It's important to enjoy what you do.
- For a project to succeed, you need to qualify your target audience.
- It's important to always be studying your field, and keep developing, and learning how to manage and market the business.
- Build yourself a goals board, strive and act to make it a reality.
- Adjust yourself to the abilities and desires of your target audience.
- Believe in yourself and act to achieve your goal.
- An entrepreneur needs to take risks, and they should be calculated risks.
- It's good to set goals for one year, and make short-term goals from them.
- Dream big.
Dana Eisner - SpaceIL Spaceship Project Volunteer
Backed by Google, a few Israeli entrepreneurs decided to join a competition to send a spaceship to the moon.
The mission: Be the first team that can launch, fly and land a robotic spaceship on the moon.
The spaceship will land and transmit pictures and video from the moon back to earth.
This will make Israel the third country in the world to land its flag on the moon.
The SpaceIL team set the goal to launch the smallest spaceship ever to land on the moon, and to contribute to Israeli society through an advancement of technological science education and a promotion of scientific innovation.
The Entrepreneurship for Kids Program contacted the SpaceIL team and they were glad to visit schools that implement the program as guest entrepreneurs during Global Entrepreneurship Week. One school they visited was the Ramot Weizmann school in Yavne.
The spaceship project was presented to the students by Dana Eisner, a SpaceIL volunteer.
Ynet, in the Sderot and Southern Settlements section, wrote about the school's events during GEW, and mentioned some of the entrepreneurs who came to lecture for the students.
Thanks to the Entrepreneurs
Every lecturer received a thank you letter.
The Yad Mordechai school in Bat Yam took part in the Global Entrepreneurship Week for the second year.
The week was opened with a school ceremony, and during the week, the students attended lectures of various guest entrepreneurs.
The week was organized and coordinated by Orly Maimon, the school's Entrepreneurship Coordinator.
The Guest Entrepreneurs at Yad Mordechai School in Bat Yam:
Noa Katanov - a volunteer in the spaceship project
Noah joined as a volunteer the spaceship project, and told students about the idea, the goals and the application.
Yariv Bash, who came up with the idea, and his partners, have a goal beyond landing an Israeli spaceship on the moon. Their goal is to encourage an entire generation of children to be interested in science in general and space science in particular.
About 60 students from Yad Mordechai attended the lecture, and the students showed interest and asked questions.
Ofra and Idan Einav - Sing and Sign Project Founders
A personal acquaintance with a hearing-impaired man motivated Ofra and Idan Einav to learn the sign language to communicate with auditory livers.
Ofra and Idan are brother and sister, who come from a musical background, and started the Sing and Sign project among hearing children. The goal is to help kids communicate with to the hearing impaired people through singing accompanied by sign language.
The two won the ACUM prize for their important project. The prize was given to promote the creation of videos for children.
This is a short clip from Ofra and Idan's meeting with the students:
Ofra and Idan believe that music is a way for people to interact.
Ofra and Idan advised the students to think about other peoples' needs, and take them into consideration.
Meir Shoaf - Fat Meir's Kitchen Founder
After Meir Shoaf experienced a stroke, he found it hard to speak, and only after three years, he was able to speak again.
At this time, Meir volunteered at the Shanti House kitchen, and at the end of the three years, he decided to open the Fat Meir's Kitchen. His goal was to provide sandwiches to children at school, who forgot, or who can't afford a sandwich.
The project has gained great success and recognition in the educational institutions.
The Yad Mordechai students also receive fresh sandwiches from Fat Meir's Kitchen. They are placed in a basket by the teacher's lounge, and by the end of the day, all of them are eaten by the students.
In the photo, Meir is telling first-grade students about his project, and how last year, first graders grew vegetables on a farm and brought them to him as an appreciation for his work to help feed children.
Shirly Schneider - "I Arrived" Website Founder- Create Online Invitations for Free
Shirly, a lawyer by profession, has a Bachelors degree in law and a Masters degree in Business Management and was in the excellent students track at Bar Ilan University. She is also a mother of four daughters and has been working as a lawyer for more than 10 years.
After encountering a personal need when she tried to find an online service to send invitations for an event, she decided, along with two partners, Gal and Shlomit Naor, to set up a website for online invitations.
Over the last two and a half years, she has been involved in the planning and establishing the "I Arrived" project.
Since then she has been managing the development, marketing and business cooperation of the website.
Lately, the founders acquired another website, which is now part of the "I Arrived" website, and will widen its activities as a party and event portal. It will include a magazine and recommendations for attractions and performers for events, in addition to the invitations and the creation of an event page for users.
The entrepreneur's goal is to introduce the Israeli market to the way that invitations are sent in the USA.
Shirly says that the market is growing, as printed invitations are rarely needed anymore.
At "I Arrived", they take the invitation one step ahead, and while creating the invitation, users also create an event page for users, all in the same design as the invitation. The page shows the user the RSVPs, comments and well-wishes, and lets them upload pictures, videos, and more.
The website updates monthly and the entrepreneurs build up and expand on the features available at "I Arrived".
Shirly says that from the beginning there has been a growing demand for the site and the number of surfers is jumping significantly from month to month and this is only the beginning.
During GEW, Galit Zamler told students about the part the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program plays in encouraging schools to celebrate the week, and spoke about the her program.
Additionally, the students took part in a meeting that dealt with teamwork, and which included a fun activity.
Thanks to the Entrepreneurs
After each lecture, the guest entrepreneurs received a certificate, like this:
The HaIrisim school celebrates GEW every year, thanks to the English teacher Ronni Shtekler, who developed the Learn English and Remember kit. This kit allows students with learning disabilities to learn a rich English vocabulary easily and in a fun way.
During Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013, Ronni taught all 5th and 6th graders the first lesson from the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, which deals with the questions: who is an entrepreneur? The students greatly enjoyed the different learning experiences.
Noam Tene visited the HaIrisim school as well. Noam is a volunteer and an active participant in the SpaceIL Spaceship project. He led a lecture about the project for 5th and 6th graders.
Read Ronni Shtekler's letter after the GEW events at her school on the recommendations, thanks and opinions page.
The week was opened with a ceremony for all the students of the school, during which the students received notebooks made by the their teachers. The notebooks deal with entrepreneurship according to the different age groups of the students, and they will learn from them during the coming year.
As an entrepreneurial school, they presented the various student projects over the week, and the crowning project was one that helped sick children in the Schneider hospital, which is near the school.
The students visited the patients, and through various projects, raise funds for the hospital.
Watch a clip of the ceremony at Kaplan school:
The Entrepreneurs who Visited the Kaplan School in Petah Tikva:
Zofit Rosen - Light & Flower
Zofit Rosen has an international N.D.S.F. Diploma in floral design and arrangement.
She runs Light & Flower, a college for floral design and arrangement, and develops the Light & Flower method for treatment and personal empowerment in flowers.
Zofit also wrote the book The Amazing Powers of Flowers, and made a flower card deck, which informs and instructs on different flowers.
Zofit arrived with an impressive bouquet that looked fake, but turned out to have been arranged by her with real flowers.
Zofit told the students about her field of practice, and about the challenges she has faced in spreading the special treatment method that she developed using flowers.
Angela Ben-Eliezer, Furniture Design from Cardboard Founder
Angela is the founder of a business named after her, Angela, Furniture Design From Cardboard.
Angela creates and teaches design and cardboard creation. She creates furniture, light fixtures, home accessories, useful tools and even jewelry.
Angela showed up with a wood-colored table, but which was made entirely of cardboard, in order to show the students the beauty of cardboard furniture design.
Angela told the students how she found the cardboard design field, how those around her responded, where she gets her materials, how she markets her business, and the challenges she has faced.
Sibel Zuaretz - Developer of the Yoga Flowers Method
Sibel found that yoga saved her from non-stop pain.
She specialized in the field and developed the yoga flowers method, based on yoga poses and imitating nature and animals.
At first, Sibel only worked with children, but after requests from parents and teachers, she began giving lessons to adults as well.
Watch this clip of Sibel's lecture:
The lessons Sibel learned from her entrepreneurial experience:
- Love what you do.
- Always keep evolving.
- It's important to enjoy what you do.
- An entrepreneurial idea can come from a personal need and a solution.
- Build plans for the future.
Galit Zamler - Founder of Entrepreneurship for Kids Program
Galit Zamler also visited the Kaplan school and told about GEW, and how Kaplan school students take part in this week, along with other schools, all with the support of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
Additionally, 5th-grade students attended a meeting that dealt with teamwork. The session included video clips and a fun activity with a bed sheet.
Thanks to the Entrepreneurs
At the end of each lecture the entrepreneurs received a thank you letter like this:
The Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan, which teaches leadership, entrepreneurship and business management, celebrated its third Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Like last year, this year various entrepreneurs came to talk to the students, and to share their entrepreneurial experience.
Vice Principal Sara Bachar, who in charge of the entrepreneurship subject at the school, prepared for two focused days where many entrepreneurs came to talk with the children.
Ran Ne'eman, Accells Project Partner
Ran Ne'eman founded Accells with a group of entrepreneurs. Accells is a startup which provides security measures to enter websites and organizations by using cell phones.
The project aims to replace the username and password which are used today, and so make the identification process more reliable and simpler.
During this week, Ran lectured at two schools: Tze'elon school in Be'er Ya'akov and Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan.
Here is a short clip from Ran's lecture, and on this page above, in the description of his lecture at the Tze'elon school, you can find the lessons Ran shared with the students regarding his entrepreneurial experience.
Gilad Polak - Audio Didact Project Partner
For several years now, Gilad Pollak has been a guest entrepreneur at the GEW.
Gilad, along with his partners, founded Audio Didact, and each year tells the students how the project is progressing and growing in different areas, all while keeping the same goal: Helping and enabling people to achieve personal and financial freedom by providing enriching educational materials.
Here is a short clip from Gilad's lecture:
Gilad's lessons and recommendations to the students, based on his entrepreneurial experience:
- There is a direct link between how much we value the world and our ability to profit from a project.
- A project is a response to a need, or a new invention that improves life.
- The idea for a project stems from identifying a need.
- I recommend creating collaborations to push the project forward.
- Set a goal and work to reach it.
- It is best to work with a few clients rather than relying on just one.
- Identify what works, and build a method from that. This saves time, energy and money.
- Set measurement goals.
- Get the team on board with the project's goals.
- Our product should be easy to use, and collaboration should be simple and clear, just like the project's concept.
- Work out of desire.
- Enjoy the process.
- Keep going until you achieve success.
Shirly Schneider - Founder of "I Arrived" Website- Creating Event Invitations Online for Free
Shirly Schneider, Founder of the "I Arrived" website for creating online event invitations for free, lectured at three schools during the week: Mordei HaGeta'ot school, Yad Mordechai school and Kaplan school.
Shirly founded her website out of a personal need, when she could not find a way to create Hebrew invitations online.
Shirly collaborated with her entrepreneurial friend and together they founded "I Arrived".
Shirly told the students about the stages of building the website, and one of the most important lessons she taught the students was that it's impossible to be sure if a project will succeed or not.
Shirly's advice is to believe in your project and keep trying to succeed. If you encounter challenges, find a way to overcome them.
A short clip from Shirly's lecture:
Barak Manbar - Founder of Bertha, My Mobile Supermarket
Barak is responsible for a number of projects, the last of which, Bertha, he discussed with students, and which he recently sold.
Today Barak is in advanced stages with an advertising project at the points of sale.
Barak taught the students about smart shopping and about the price of products at different supermarkets.
Barak shared the lessons he learned as an entrepreneur:
- Desire is what pushes entrepreneurs to start projects.
- In entrepreneurship, you need to give up on many things.
- The project should be useful to consumers.
- You don't have to be rich to start a project.
- As a person and as an entrepreneur, you should be humane and care for your workers, even after the project is sold.
- The entrepreneur's advantage is that a project fulfills dreams.
- It's important to have a business plan.
A clip from Barak's lecture:
Yamima Bismot- Owner of The Final Word
From the place of receiving income support, Yamima Bismot came to a place of safe income through the business she established: "The Final Word".
Yamima founded her business with the help of Your Own Business project, which aims to empower religious mothers and enable them to operate their own business from home.
Today Yamima is a copywriter and a website content writer, and teaches how to influence and achieve desired results through words.
Yamima was a guest lecturer at the school where she studied as a child, which was then called Pardes, today, it's known as Mordei HaGeta'ot school. Tamima told the children about her process, and how they must always gather the courage and achieve the goals they desire.
Yamima's tips for starting a business:
- Keep the Sabbath - it works great for her.
- Go with your truth and don't let criticism guide you.
- Dare and try and don't fear of negative response.
- Don't devalue your competition, support them. It displays your ability and your belief in yourself, which makes your customers believe in you too.
- There are many free things online, you can exchange knowledge and other services.
- Get support from your family.
- Do what you love.
- Identify and take advantage of opportunities.
- Ask for help when you need it.
- Share your knowledge with others and show that you value them.
Ronit Levinstein Meltz - Author of A Journey after my Name Series
For many years Ronit Levinstein Meltz was a teacher at high schools and a bible teacher. Today she is mainly a writer.
When Ronit decided to start writing, she immediately knew that she would write a series, not a single book, even though she had not written a single chapter before.
A search for topics that will interest children led her to write stories about the names behind the children's names.
Searching for names for her protagonists is a challenge, and sometimes the names change based on the characters she writes about, who also have opinions of their own.
Thus far, the series has six books: Green and Open Blinds, A Miracle of Love, Moving to the Corner, From Sea to Sea, 13 Red, and the new book: A Mission of Brothers which is about a secret operation of the Mossad and the Aliyah of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
Ronit shared the lessons she'd learned while writing books:
- At first, you decide if the protagonist is a boy or a girl, and decide on their appearance and personality.
- As soon as you create a character, you can see that they have their own opinions, and they take part in deciding on the book's plot.
- While writing a book, part of the influence comes from the author's work, but some of the influences on the plot and the characters are independent of the author.
- Choosing a name for the book is a complicated process, and so it's one of the hardest and most important things for an author.
- It's important not to give your book the same title as another book.
- An idea to write a book can come from something that happened to the author.
An edited clip of Ronit's lecture:
Rotem Eyal - Boo Designer Clothing Founder
Rotem is a designer of Boo Designer Clothing in Shenkin, Tel Aviv. She lives, breathes and creates fashion.
t is important for Rotem that the production be Israeli, thereby also promoting employment in the country.
Rotem came to talk with the students dressed in clothing she'd designed, and so served as a presenter for her own business.
The lessons Rotem shared with the children:
- A project starts with a dream and setting a goal.
- Even though a dream is the foundation of entrepreneurship, it needs to be based in reality in order to come true.
- Having determination is important for the entrepreneur, but ability is equally important.
- Children of entrepreneurs have the base and confidence to be entrepreneurs themselves.
- Entrepreneurship involves hard work.
- Every project will encounter difficulties that you will need to overcome.
- It is impossible to know in advance whether or not the venture will succeed or not.
- Before starting a project, make sure there's a need for it.
- Production in Israel is more expensive, but allows flexibility and supports the local economy.
- You need to love what you do.
- Always learn and evolve in your field.
- Perseverance is crucial for success.
- Believe in your project and don't give up.
- Be aware of your surroundings.
- Don't be afraid, fear paralyzes.
Watch a clip from Rotem's lecture:
Ayelet Israeli - Owner of Bronxy, Designer Wooden Flip Flops
Ayelet Israeli discovered the flip-flops, which she loved very much as a teenager, in a small shop in Brooklyn.
Right there and then she decided to import the flip flops to Israel.
With determination, love, belief in herself and a lot of help from her friends, she began importing the flip flops to Israel, even while she still lived in New York.
At her lecture, Ayelet told the students about the response from her community to the idea, about her fear of changing a career after years of being a hip hop teacher, and how her determination to make the dream come true surpassed all of this.
Some of those around her told her the project wouldn't work, but her sister, who lived in Israel, supported her. Ayelet discovered a niche for people who love the shoes, some of whom became loyal customers.
Ayelet's tips for the beginner entrepreneur:
- If you find the will to succeed within yourself, then you will succeed.
- Be brave and follow your dreams to the end.
- Be stern, it will help you overcome difficulties.
- Believe in your idea.
- Do not be afraid of failure
- Get help from people you trust.
- Learn every possible thing about your field, and become experts.
Here is a short clip from Ayelet's lecture:
Danny Deutsch - Guest Lecturer, SpaceIL project volunteer
Danny Deutsch joined the SpaceIL project as a volunteer lecturer for students, and inspires them to be interested in space and technological science.
Tali Toledano, the Kaplan school principal, asked Danny to speak at the school ceremony, and tell students, teachers and parents about the ambitious and progressive project, in order to encourage them to dream big.
Some tips Danny gave to the students:
- Always stay motivated.
- Success doesn't come from just one project.
- When you begin a project in a certain field, you sometimes need to make changes based on market changes and demands.
- Entrepreneurship should come with a lot of determination in order to succeed.
- Take into account that there may be changes that will affect your project, which we cannot control.
Here is a short clip out of Danny's lecture at the ceremony:
At the end of the ceremony, the school's 5th graders gathered in the auditorium and Danny told them about the spaceship project, how the idea was born, how they enlisted partners and others who helped the project succeed.
The spaceship project competition that Google founded has 33 participating teams. Israel joined last, but as of November 2013, Israel is in 4th place in its chances to win.
NASA's CEO said he has a feeling that the Israelis will win, and will be the first to land a spaceship on the moon. The spaceship will move a few meters and transmit pictures from the moon back to earth.
Here is a short clip from Danny's lecture:
Tamir Schwartz - Guest Entrepreneur
Tamir's daughter is in the 2nd grade, and he came the school for the second year to tell the students about entrepreneurship.
Tamir told the students about turning a difficulty into an opportunity, and how he started a project with his partners. They turned the Real Estate crisis into an opportunity and established an online board.
He spoke about how the project failed, and how this did not break his spirit. Today he is working and developing a new project.
Tamir believes that the entrepreneur doesn't encounter difficulties, but obstacles, and he can overcome them.
Michal Brotfeld, Art in Threads Founder
Michal is an artist and public relations worker, who, following her love for art, founded "An Art in Threads".
Michal holds original birthday workshops for girls ages 8 and up, for young women and soldiers.
As part of the workshops, the girls learn to decorate using wax strings, beads and more. They make flip-flops, hairbands, bracelets and more, and make the items fashionable, unique and special.
Here is one example:
A short clip from Michal's lecture to Mordei HaGeta'ot students, who found it very interesting and asked questions.
Here are Michal's tips for young entrepreneurs:
- It's important to have a target audience for your project.
- Focus your marketing efforts on this target audience.
- Know the difference between marketing, advertising, and public relations.
- Entrepreneurship comes with challenges.
- Everyone has advantages and you need to use them to succeed.
- Facebook is an easy, convenient and useful marketing tool.
- Be creative in your marketing.
- An entrepreneur does everything alone - the product, marketing, sales and business management.
- Sales through channels in which you have no control over the price are problematic.
- It's important to create uniqueness for your products.
- An entrepreneur needs to find ways to cut costs.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 was held in Israel in November 2012.
Young students marked Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 at schools with the encouragement of the EFK program that fosters education for entrepreneurship. Each school decided how they would do it in their own way.
In all the schools, they presented a slideshow on Global Entrepreneurship Week to the students while explaining the purpose of the week, the activities that would take place during the week in Israel and abroad, and especially on the part of the students themselves during this week.
A select group of 4th graders who participated in the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program watched a slideshow on Global Entrepreneurship Week, and heard explanations about the week's purpose and its contribution to encouraging entrepreneurship.
Afterwards, the group had a second meeting as outlined in the program.
Hila Attias Almagor, the facilitator of the EFK Program at Amirim school in Binyamina, hosted the entrepreneur Shachar Attias during a weekly meeting that took place during GEW. Shachar talked with the students about his experience as an entrepreneur.
Shachar has 12 years of experience in online marketing, founded a startup called FansPitch.com which allows sports fans to provide online commentary for games broadcast on television while competing against a reporter/commentator who fans the opposing team.
Orly Maimon, the entrepreneurship coordinator at Yad Mordechai school, organized the celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week with the help of the EFK Program.
This is the first time Yad Mordechai school is celebrating GEW, as it became a school that promotes innovative entrepreneurial thinking.
The school opened GEW with a ceremony, and during the week, the students show the slideshow that was prepared by the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
The school also invited guest entrepreneurs, some of them engaged the students in entrepreneurial activities, and others talked about their projects in a way that was suitable for the students' age and considering that this is the first year in which students are exposed to the issue of entrepreneurship.
This was the first year that the students were exposed to the topic of entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurs who visited Yad Mordechai School in Bat Yam:
Meir Shoef, Founder of Fat Meir's Kitchen
When Meir Shoef saw that there were children in Bat Yam who came to school without breakfast, he decided to open a kitchen to make sandwiches, and give them to students on their way to school. Over time, Meir understood that these children also don't have a hot meal waiting for them at home at the end of the day.
Thus, he began preparing lunches for the city's children. Students from Yad Mordechai school also enjoy Meir's social project, and so inviting him to speak was an obvious choice. Meir was happy to come to the school and speak about how he had the idea, what difficulties he had along the way, funding and his goals for the future.
In this photo, you can see a basket of sandwiches prepared in Fat Meir's Kitchen for the Yad Mordechai students.
Here is a short clip from Meir Shoef's lecture during Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012:
The Yad Mordechai school participates in the Design for Change program - a global program that encourages the creation of social change. In Israel, the program is sponsored by Mrs. Shari Arison.
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Yad Mordechai won first place among the schools with an agricultural farm project, and the students represented the school in India.
The crops from the farm project are donated to Fat Meir's kitchen as a token of appreciation and thanks for the sandwiches they receive every day.
Here is a video produced by the school and the Design for Change association, which talks about Meir's project, the students' Agricultural Farm project and the link between the two:
Galit Zamler, Entrepreneurship for Kids Developer
Fourth graders participated in an experiential encounter on the subject of teamwork, in order to learn about the importance of cooperation between the team members to achieve the desired results, and on the other hand the importance of preserving individual thought in the face of peer pressure.
The students during a teamwork exercise
Noah, Founder of Tal Shel Tikva
The Tal Shel Tikva foundation was founded to help children with kidney disease spend their time in the hospital in comfort and with interesting things to do.
Drinking water is very important for the kidney function, and Noah created an interactive activity which taught all the children about the importance of drinking water.
Sharon Mualem, EVT Sports Project Co-founder
The EVT project allows people to take part in fitness training at home, during their free time, online.
Sharon Mualem came as a guest entrepreneur and told the children about where the idea originated from, the stages along the way to making the dream a reality, the difficulties of creating an online business when the entrepreneurs aren't programmers, and the ways to overcome difficulties.
The HaIrisim school in Karmiel turned their celebration of GEW 2012 into a tradition, and do so through one of the EFK Program's modules.
This year, too, the week was marked, thanks to the entrepreneurial teacher, Ronni Shtekler, who developed a method for teaching English to Israeli students with language-learning challenges- Learn English and Remember.
Ronni told the sixth graders about the GEW and shared them with her experience as an entrepreneur.
Together, and in light of a question raised by the students, they discussed how this week encourages educating entrepreneurship in Israel and abroad.
Later on, Ronni taught the students about Intelligent consumerism, a lesson that was prepared especially as per her request by the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program
The Kaplan school in Petah Tikva celebrated its third Global Entrepreneurship Week in cooperation with the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program.
The school held a ceremony to open the week and invited entrepreneurs to share their experience with the students.
In this clip, you can see a bit of what went on during GEW 2012 at the Kaplan school, including a focus on entrepreneurial education in the school's daily life.
The entrepreneurs who lectured in partnership with the EFK Program are:
Galit Zamler, Entrepreneurship for Kids Program founder
5th graders participated in an activity about teamwork and the influence of the group on the individual, in order to learn about the importance of teamwork to achieve the desired goals and the importance of individual thought in the face of peer pressure.
Ayala Geron, Board Game Creator
Ayala's children studied at the Kaplan school, and she has been a guest lecturer there during GEW for several years. During this week Ayala the tells students about the board games she created, and her work as a social entrepreneur.
The first game developed by Ayala and released to the market was a box game named Elephant and Cat on a Trail Adventure, and later, the box game called The Web. Both were taken up by Foxmind, which sells them in Israel and abroad.
Dana Eliyahu, the founder of Gam Ani Tut
Dana told 6th-grade students about when she lived in England, she had the idea for Gam Ani Tut. The project connects businesses and non-profit organizations operating in Ramat Hasharon.
Both sides benefit: the businesses get exposure and more income, and the nonprofit organizations get donations that help them continue to act for the benefit of society.
Dana told the students about the process of starting a project, the challenges, marketing, and her aspirations to replicate the project to other cities.
The Mordei HaGeta'ot school in Ramat Gan educates for leadership, entrepreneurship, and business management. This year, the school celebrated the GEW for the first time with a variety of events, all led by Ronni Shasha, the school's principal, and her deputy Sara Bachar.
The school opened the week with a school-wide ceremony and watched a show by other students about entrepreneurship.
Then the students got to learn about the electric car project. Sagi Shahar is the collaboration manager of Better Place and he told the students how to turn an idea into reality, and how they do so at Better Place.
Sagi is also a social entrepreneur and a few months ago, he founded an association that encourages people who have finished their undergraduate studies to work in social work that helps them and their community. The reward is professional, managerial, creating a network of contacts, etc.
During the week, in two concentrated days, entrepreneurs from various fields visited the school and told 5th-8th-grade students about their projects and the processes they went through, from the first idea to successful completion.
In addition, the school made a booklet with an explanation about the GEW, a statement from the principal, and introductions to the entrepreneurs that the students met during the week.
Three 5th grade classes at Mordei HaGeta'ot heard lectures from the following entrepreneurs:
Lior Lapid - Or Lahinuch Association Founder
The Or Lahinuch Association promotes excellence and volunteering as a way of life in children and teens, with a focus on the social and geographical periphery.
Lior Lapid told the children how he established the association when he was sixteen, following his personal story, and then for 7 years he developed the organization's activities voluntarily, and after a break of a year and a half during which he was abroad, he returned to manage the association full-time.
The association is based on a volunteer network of educators and social workers as well as students who receive scholarships for their work with the association.
Michael Levkovitz Sir Lechet Founder
Michael worked as a manager of new products in large Israeli companies that develop and create products for international markets, and he initiates and creates the original products within the company he founded - Tea and Lemon Ltd.
The first product he developed and sold named Sir Lechet. The product meets the needs of children and their parents for accessible bathrooms, ready and clean when they are away from home.
Sir Lechet won a design award, was presented in the Design Museum and is sold in dozens of stores around Israel.
Michael talked about the process of creating and initiating the project. The fun and the difficulties, the possibilities and the challenges and challenges from concept to product on the store shelves.
Dana Eliyahu Gam Ani Tut founder
Dana Eliyahu founded her project Gam Ani Tut after identifying an associations' need for donations and business' need to get exposure and expand their sales.
The project connects businesses to workers' associations in Ramat Hasharon and both sides benefit. Dana told the students how she had the idea while living in England.
She spoke about the process of starting a project, the challenges, marketing and about her goal to spread the project to other cities.
Three sixth grade classes listened to lectures by the following entrepreneurs:
Ayala Geron, Board Game Developer
Ayala works in High Teach and loves creating board games. She's developed two games that were taken up and sold by Foxmind, one of which, Elephant and Cat on a trail adventure, gained international success.
The second game, which was released in 2011, is called The Web.
Ayala told about the process of developing a game box, the difficulty in marketing them, and the success.
Ayala is one of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program's most veteran lecturers, and during her meetings with children, she also tells about her social work helping elderly people living in a nursing home in Petah Tikva, and about a story that she wrote.
The story was published by Matah and is especially adapted for mentally disabled people aged 15-20.
Three 7th grade classes heard lectures from the following entrepreneurs:
Zur Taub - Agora Website Founder
Zur had the idea to make a website with a platform to offer and get unneeded items when he worked in a clothing company's warehouse.
In his position, he was responsible for clothing shipments arriving on plastic hangers and transferring them to wooden ones before they arrived in stores. Every day he collected many plastic hangers.
The hangers were thrown away and added to the gathering environmental pollutants, while Zur thought that someone, somewhere would be happy to receive them.
After trying to sell the hangers without success, Zur decided to establish the Agora website where people offer for free items they no longer need, and others get items they need for free.
Hava Levi, Bereshit Natural Cosmetics Founder
Hava worked as an information systems analyst for many years. When she felt like she needed a change, she studied herbal medicine.
At first, she concocted and compiled natural ointments which she developed at home, according to the needs of her family and her immediate surroundings.
When she saw that the ointments were useful, and the users were happy, Hava decided to start a business, called BeReshit, and today she creates and sells a number of self-made products.
Tamir Schwartz - Father of a Student and Entrepreneur
Tamir's daughter is in the 1st grade. He worked 3 years on a project born out of the real estate crisis in 2008.
The project was an online forum for international real estate investments.
The project ended due to difficulties in fundraising.
Tamir quickly continued on to the next project, and today he is the CEO of a new startup with two patents.
Tamir told the students about turning a difficulty (the real estate crisis) into an opportunity (an online forum), his lessons from finishing a project, and how to continue on to the next one.
In this clip - Tamir's lecture to the young students:
Three 8th grade classes heard lectures from the following entrepreneurs:
Doron Marco, Serial Entrepreneur
Since he was a child, Doron loved to dance and dedicated all of his time to dance. He was even a member of the Bat Sheva band, but when he was 21, he was injured and had to stop dancing and reinvent himself.
Doron told the students about the process he had undergone, about his first project: A self-lighting cigarette. He also talked about his first negotiation, the creativity that helped him as an entrepreneur, and more.
Today, Doron is the CEO of White Innovation, which he founded. The successful company is based upon finding creative solutions to factories' difficulties, and their business model is: Share the profit from these solutions.
Doron is one of the few Israelis invited to speak at TED.
Ran Ne'eman- Father of a Student and Entrepreneur
Ran's son is a 2nd grader at Mordei HaGeta'ot and he told the students about Accells, the project he founded with a team of entrepreneurs, about the process of starting a project, the steps he needed to take, and more.
The start-up provides cell phones security measures to access sites and organizations. The project aims to replace the username and password used today and make the identification process more reliable and simpler.
Here is a short clip from Ran's lecture to 8th graders:
Gilad Polak, Co-CEO at Audio Didact
Gilad and his partner founded a number of projects: an online project to turn information into knowledge, and creating information products with help from experts in several fields. In the same area, they created the project, LeHachechim BaPkakim (Get smarter in traffic jams).
Gilad spoke about how he came up with his project (from a personal need), working with a business partner, ways for collaborations and his goals for the future.
Here is a short clip from Gilad Polak's lecture:
Global Entrepreneurship Week took place in Israel between November 14-20, 2011 in Israeli elementary schools. These are entrepreneurial schools educators that join the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program celebrating GEW2011.
The week was celebrated at the following schools, by the encouragement of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program: Kaplan in Petah Tikva, Mordei HaGeta'ot in Ramat Gan and HaIrisim in Karmiel.
During this week, the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program was launched at the Kaplan school in Petah Tikva.
Sixth graders from the Kaplan School in Petah Tikva participated in the first meeting of the entrepreneurship program from a series of meetings. The meeting exposed them to the module: Who is an entrepreneur?
All the students took part in an Entrepreneurial Event. The students made signs and decorations in class and hung them around the school to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week.
When the students were asked "who wants to be an entrepreneur?", many hands were raised.
Students had many opinions on the topic, but they all agreed that an entrepreneur needs to be action-oriented, and makes ideas a reality.
Israeli guest entrepreneurs on behalf of the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program came to the school, talked about their entrepreneurial experience and engaged the children with entrepreneurial activities.
This video was produced at the end of the entrepreneurial event at Kaplan school.
Global Entrepreneurship Week 2011 was chosen as the best time to launch the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program at Mordei HaGeta'ot school.
During this week, all students from three fourth grade classes attended the first meeting of the program that dealt with the module: Who is an entrepreneur?
After the first meeting, the vice principal wrote:
"We want to thank you for today's meetings.
The students really enjoyed it.
Well done! You're doing a great job".
Later on, all fourth graders participated in two additional sessions from the Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, so they could get an idea of the program content before applying to take part in the full program.
At the end of three sessions, the willingness to participate was particularly high, but only 17 students were selected to take part in this enhanced program.
Following the success of the three meetings held last year, on entrepreneurship at the school, all of the EFK program, Ronni Shtekler, an English teacher, decided to continue and expose her students to the entrepreneurial world during Global Entrepreneurship Week. Ronni selected one topic to teach the children.
The module she selected was Anyone can be an entrepreneur, a lesson that emphasizes the children's abilities, and shows them that even abilities that seem meaningless at this point of their lives, may give them an advantage as entrepreneurs.
During this lesson, the students learn about different skills that entrepreneurs have, such as positive thinking and taking advantage of opportunities. Through improvisation exercises, the children express these skills.
The topic of entrepreneurship is important to Ronni Shteckler as she has founded her own business, an English teaching kit with a focus on students with learning disabilities: Learn English and Remember.
At the end of the lessons, Ronni wrote:
"It was very successful. The kids enjoyed it, and so did I. Good job and thank you."
A primary school celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week 2010 thanks to the EFK Program, which encourages schools to educate for entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurship for Kids Program took part this year for the first time in the GEW.
The Kaplan school in Petah Tikva hosted an entire day dedicated to entrepreneurship. The day was opened with a ceremony in front of the parents and students. The different entrepreneurial committees in the school presented their activities.
Later, students returned to their classrooms, and each class held a lecture and/or activity on entrepreneurship.
The Entrepreneurship for Kids Program, assisted in recruiting Israeli guest entrepreneurs who shared the students in the process, which they had undergone as entrepreneurs.
Galit Zamler also organized activities for the students on the subject of entrepreneurship, according to their age.
Here is a clip summarizing the Entrepreneurship day at the school:
