Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog

Yesterday Reut’s Socio-Economic team traveled to Akko for a second meeting regarding the ISRAEL 15 regional project, an initiative which was launched a few months ago. The process is guided by Praxis and funded by the UJC’s Partnership 2000 and can serve as a model for Socio-Economic leapfrogging.

This project aims to bring together local leaders and entrepreneurs and focus on developing guidelines for enhancing social and economic growth and prosperity in the Western Galilee. It follows on the heels of a project currently taking place in the Beit Shemesh and Mate Yehuda region.

Our underlying assumption is that Israel’s Socio-Economic leapfrogging is the combination of regional leapfrogs. Throughout the project, Reut distills the insights learned from projects into principals for successful regional development so that it can be disseminated to other regions in Israel. Therefore we see the existing platform of ‘Partnership 2000’ as a great opportunity to spread the knowledge of regional leapfrogging nationwide.

The meeting was excellent and managed to highlight the region’s diversity, entrepreneurial nature and unique endogenous assets. For us this is a great starting point.