08 September 2025

Our Technion UK Israel Tour - 2. The Tour Begins

It's been a long day!

After a delicious breakfast overlooking the beach,we assembled in a conference room and met with the others in the group who were very friendly.

After an introduction by our organisers, Alan and Ida, we heard a fascinating talk by a journalist, Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman who is the Executive Editor of ILTV. She gave us a detailed update on the current situation (and of course, we later heard about the horrific terrorist attack in Ramot ).

We then travelled to Meta's impressive offices and heard about its technological vision and approach to AI. Fascinating.

We had lunch and after some more presentations had some free time to wander around Rothschild Boulevard.

This was followed by a trip to the Moovit Headquarters in Ness Xiona and an impressive presentation by Ziv Kabaretti, the company's Chief Productivity Officer. It's very smart tech.

Back to our hotel (and an emotional reunion with my luggage) to hear an amazing talk by Bigadeer General (Reserves) Professor Jacob Nagel who was one of the originators of The Iron Dome. His talk was captivating and covered areas including the recent war with Iran and his thoughts on the current situation. Totally absorbing.

A delicious milky dinner at a local restaurant capped off an extraordinary day.

Tomorrow...Jerusalem!

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