This blog is dedicated to cross communication between cultures from around the world. This effort was started in April 2008 when ten Bay Area bloggers went to Israel and met with entrepreneurial visionaries and other remarkable people who were doing innovative things around technology, science, the environment, and the arts.
What it turned into was a wonderful mishmash of visits that ranged from technology start-ups, venture capitalists, educators, and architects to interviews with top executives at more established companies like Cisco, Checkpoint and Zoran. All this at the heels of an inside look at a Bedouin Village, the Peres Center for Peace and Rambam’s Trauma Care.
This is a country where the myriad of political and historical facts are as complex as its people. The land is more than 3,000 years old yet its people only just celebrated its 60th birthday a couple of weeks after our return.
We were there to uncover the gems, the untold stories about a magical place and the multi-faceted people who came here for a better life, not unlike many who came to America 230 years ago.
Not only were we transformed by the miracles that were happening in the business and non-profit sectors but were witness to groups of people who were actively involved in promoting peace between Palestinians and Israelis, stories we don’t often hear about in our daily news.
Israel in April was just the beginning. This blog will be a hub for unveiling more magic in future countries planned for later this year and 2009, including South Africa, France, England and India.
