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Israel
Startup Weekend 2010 Includes Palestine, Israel Entrepreneurs
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Joel Leyden Jerusalem ---- July 7, 2010 …. Israel Startup Weekend 2010, will be a partnership between the Shimon Peres Center for Peace, as the first ever collaboration of Jewish and Arab hi tech entrepreneurs and developers from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the United States. "Startup Weekend is an international event that combines networking of both the mobile and Internet community," said Israel Startup Weekend organizer Eddie Reznik. "But this year, we are going to transcend all digital and political borders. There is no greater tool for peace and understanding than the Internet and Web 2.0 and as such we are proud to bring creative minds together from both Israel and the Palestinian territories." Israel Startup
Weekend 2010 will take place July 14 -16, at the Peres Peace House
in Jaffa. Reznik and
Harel define the project: "The event is an open platform
of ideas and projects that provides networking, resources and
incentives for participants to learn how to turn an idea into
a product. It is a place to meet and work with programmers, marketers,
entrepreneurs and investors to build companies and more importantly
build a community. Our motto - less talk more action.” Behind the Israel Startup Weekend are entrepreneurs Amir Harel, experienced in developing and marketing technology products, and Eddie Reznik, who worked at Sun Microsystems for 13 years. This year they joined forces with the Peres Center for Peace, whose Department of Economics and business are producing the event in the spirit of cooperation between peoples, which the Center promotes. Department Director Yoav Stern states: "The field of high tech is a classic domain for cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians because in this field fences and barriers do not matter." Last year, Israel Startup Weekend was sponsored by IBM, Google Israel and several other leading brands in the field of hi-tech and Internet. From over 200 participants and 13 startups created, IsIt Fact Checking Software was created and captured first place. IsIt recently registered it patent pending and is currently negotiating with several private investors. Startup Weekend was born in 2007 in the US by Andrew Hyde. Today Startup Weekend is operated out of Seattle, WA by Marc Nager and Clint Nelsen with development support coming from Cameron Preston, Mick Thompson and Timothy Ting. This creative, rapidly growing global program has enjoyed tremendous success in over 52 cities and 12 countries from Los Angeles, New York and Boston to London, Paris and Tokyo. Sponsors of Israel Startup Weekend 2010 include: The Peres Center For Peace, Mercy Corps, Amit, Pollak, Matalon and Co., Paypal Pte Ltd., IBM Israel, Google Israel, Deloitte Accounting, Hamovil Jack Yulzari Ltd., Itay Strum Financial Services, Newsgeek, ESOP Management and Trust Company Ltd., The Leyden Digital PR, SEO, Internet Marketing New Media Communications Group and IsIt? Online Fact Checking Software. According to Resnik, Israel is the most logical place for StartUp Weekend. “It is well known that Israel is the ‘Silicon Wadi’ next to the US West Coast "Silicon Valley". For any number of reasons – enjoying a hi-tech IDF army, a heavy influx of highly intelligent and motivated Russian immigrants, a lack of natural resources - Israel has become and is respected for being a hotbed for startups and innovation." The majority of participants that will join the nearly sold-out hi-tech, Internet networking sponsored event in Israel, discovered the event as it was advertised on social networking Internet sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Both Jewish and Arab
participants will be coming from a variety of cities and towns
including: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Ramallah, Herzlia, Druse villages,
Haifa, Hadera, Rehovot, Kfar Sava, Ra'anana, Holon, Beer Sheva,
Sderot, Herzliya, Ramat Aviv, Hod Hasharon, Netanya, Kibbutzim,
Kiryat Shomona, Eilat, Ariel and other towns located in the West
Bank (Judea and Samaria). Regardless of the number of companies created in Israel by Startup Weekend 2010, the event illustrates Israel determination to break through a global recession and create peaceful channels between Israel and her Arab neighbors. A positive attitude by Israeli entrepreneurs which has not changed since 1948. An effective attitude of survival which serves as a shining example to every person, every political and corporate leader, every company and organization throughout the world. The Israel News Agency will be reporting live from this Israel Startup Weekend via Twitter and Facebook status updates and Google News stories.
The Israel News Agency, which is accredited by Israel Government Press Office, was the first on line news organization in Israel. The INA reaches up to 60 million readers through Google News and Internet social networking channels such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube from New York, London, Moscow and Paris to Toronto, Los Angeles, China and India. Leyden is presently launching the United States News Agency using the INA as a successful working model.
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