Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

This week Reut hosted the annual ISRAEL 15 Conference. Some 600 leaders in the social and economic arena gathered to examine ways to fulfill the vision of turning Israel into one of the leading countries in terms of quality of life.

Attendants came from both Israel and abroad and represented various sectors: high and medium level government officials, those from the business sector, NGOs, local authorities, philanthropy, academia and the defense forces. (Click here for a list of all the organizations that make up the ISRAEL 15 Community).

The morning panels focused on the new relationship between government, employers and employees which is essential for a leapfrog in the economy and labor market and on how to initiate local and regional leapfrogs. The rest of the day was devoted to discussion spaces that dealt with several aspects of leapfrogging such as human capital, the Jewish world and leadership of leapfrogging. The keynote speeches were given by head of the opposition Tzipi Livni, and minister for minorities, Professor Avishai Braverman as well as by Gidi Grinstein.

We thank all the speakers and participants in the conference and urge them to advance the ISRAEL 15 vision in their daily activities.

For the main presentation of the conference, click here.
For the conference’s home page, click here.