This morning (15.11.15), the Global Entrepreneurship Network participated in the Opening Bell Ceremony, celebrating the opening of the "Global Entrepreneurship Week", held in 160 countries across the world.
Ayla Matalon, Chairwoman of the Global Entrepreneurship Network in Israel said: “Entrepreneurship Week was established as a project by students in the UK under the title Make Your Mark, with the objective of opening doors to a dream for young people to leave the traditional employment track for a life of self-fulfillment. We have no shortage of entrepreneurship in Israel. Our activity is focused on encouraging entrepreneurship in the social periphery. When we organize "Entrepreneurship on Tap" in Tel Aviv, a man stands up in Dimona, a woman stands up in Nazareth, and they bring men and women entrepreneurs to "Entrepreneurship on Tap" to these locations, to hear and experience the entrepreneurship endeavor. This place, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, is a milestone in the lives of many entrepreneurs, a stepping stone, not an end – a new phase of growth. I hope that some of the entrepreneurs we have encouraged in Bnei Brak, in Elad, in Kafr Kassem, in Beit Jann, and in Rahat will come here with their companies and strengthen the domestic economy".
Hani Shitrit- Bach, Senior Vice President, Listing & Economics Department in the TASE said: “The TASE’s objective is to promote and expose small and mid-sized companies, including high-tech companies, while creating an infrastructure for them to raise capital through the stock market. High-tech entrepreneurs have already demonstrated that entrepreneurship is the power that allows social mobility and economic growth irrespective of origin or environment. I am very pleased to note the opening of "Global Entrepreneurship Week" on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, because there is no step that is more symbolic than this.”
From right to left:
Miki Scheinbach - Member of the audit committee of Global Entrepreneurship Network and Partner at AfterDox; Noam Band - CEO of Algomizer and member of the board of managers of Global Entrepreneurship Network;
Ayla Matalon - Chairperson of Global Entrepreneurship Network and Executive Manager of MIT Enterprise Forum of Israel; Amnon Neubach - Chairman of the board of TASE; Igal Rotem - Vice Chairman Global Entrepreneurship Network; Hani Shitrit- Bach; SVP Listing and Economic Department
Photo: Kobi Kantor
