Sep 08, 2025
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Two Boston roots turn to technology and business to close the full league in the Middle East.
In Arab Israel, Palestinian Israel citizen grew up in the Arab city, the Arab city called "the other side" - Jewish Israelites.
His city school no Jewish students, but 17 years old, was involved in Israel's city.
Marana is one of the hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli college students who participate in the Middle East of the East of tomorrow every year, or meet the MIT initiative in Jerusalem, who teaches computer science and innovation but promotes multicultural conversations.
The 20-year-old program is approximately 1000 college work in the college, such as MIT and Harvard.Rorders who are willing to work with people from other cultures.
"See Yuri Isralery as a friend," said saying, "there is a way to withdraw from more than the communication we do when we are more vision, it is also an enemy."
Hope accumulated in the Middle East sounds like a wrong promise.However, we are trying to close the social, economy, and ideological sectors through innovation and entrepreneurship by collecting other programs with Greater Boston roots and startup 50:50.In each program, ideas are to create connections and understanding through shared professional interests, dialogue and teamwork.
"We achieve practical technological paths that would benefit everyone as people living here," said Shai Friedman, general director 50: 50.
Between the decade of an old conflict, there were two organizations from the university campuses that offer its approach to Israelis and Palestinian coexistence.
Both of you are unliked to live in science and integrated difficulty, in which Israel live strongly studying teaching about Israel and Palestinians.
"Many children do not want to be agents of peace, and therefore do not participate in the program," said Yan Sagay, CEO of Meet. "They came because they saw that it was part of MIT and knew that it could change their lives."
Meat accepts the 120 ninth grade in a year.Each category is available for 700 hours in three years, including a deep program in Jerusalem every summer.Performance includes computer science and entrepreneurship courses taught by MIT graduate students and given by graduates.
Students will, for example, to help people to inform people of their identities, without risking their identity, without risking their identity.
For Mara, the biggest impact of the program was first to use new technologies and advances in business plans, but from the sessions, in which he discussed his background in Israel.
"We had obstacles, but we have no other place to talk about," he said.
Among the political arguments, Marana and 10 Rivis and Palestine have developed a 600,000 Palestinian youth in a high coast of Persia Gulf.The pitch will be said to be said to initiate job search, identify the spaces in skills or user education and connect the potential users.
The idea won Marna's first place in the demo day competition.
"I had to constantly fight stereotypes, and I thought about someone else."
50:50 start -ups act as a technical incubator, combining new adult Israeli, Palestinians and Israeli Palestinian citizens to develop beginners from scratch.
This was founded in 2019 by two Israeli entrepreneurs, Arman Heyman, and the northeastern professor Amir Greencites, Rhruh Kronburg, a Dutch professor with a Palestinian.50:50 was created to satisfy the unequal commercial opportunities for Israel and the Palestinians.
Grinstein said: "If you are an Israeli living in Aviv oil, you have a uncle at the business capital company or you know someone in your military service and you will have more than 250 different events," Grinsitin said.
Between 30 and 50 participation in each class that lasts six months.
Comments and teams are the winner for something, where the Nurist Tehrenosin class is then wheels on the streets of Israel and Boston to give its comments to potential investors.
Last year, the program was to participate in the participation of Palestinians in Nicocyia, which has launched a pilot -gray program for two weeks.
Anna Pinchuk, an Israelio citizen, initially released, worked in the Israeli army as part of the event at the Weddost in the west and part of his compulsory service.
"I don't know how to respond to my identity and where I came from," she said.
According to many members of the most people, pens of people in the program, he was with Palestine on the shoulder.
Came in his background conversation, but only, but just from the ki uth, is not antiant
"The magic of this app does not live in seminar or myths," Dinak.
Both programs have faced challenges as it changes domestic and international policy.The disintegration of the United States International Development Agency by President Trump is working on an annual budget of $ 200,000, or one -third of the $ 600,000 budget per year 50: 50. Meat, $ 3.5 million, losing $ 1 million per year in 202.
And yet, and the Sigi CEO meets, "This shows that the program works in the darkest time."
More people participated in the summer program than ever, Sagee said.
Marana said that among the 70 graduates meeting this summer, her fellow players are still working together at the beginning.He sees the former students of his colleagues as "empathy leaders", able to dialogue and partnership that is more than the toughness of ideology.
"I want a seed to live in a different fact than this," a fact that you can only achieve by looking at each other as a friend, dud, and car for the community to show.Find
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