Ivey Israel Business Trip *Pizur = Students are given a stipend to spend on a meal at any restaurant in the area THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16 th 13:00 Student arrival at Pearson Airport 17:45 Flight El Al Israel Airlines Departure FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 th 12:00 Flight El Al Israel Airlines Arrival (noon) Meet with your tour guide and transfer to Jerusalem 14:00-15:00 Pizur lunch at the Mahane Yehuda market 15:30 16:00 Check-in and time to freshen up 16:00 Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath) in the Old City of Jerusalem Dinner Shabbat of a Lifetime (Host family hosts us to educate students on the significance of Friday night dinners) Overnight: Harmony hotel, Jerusalem
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18 12:15-16:00 Tour of Jerusalem s Old City and Pizur Lunch 19:30 Dinner at Darna restaurant Speaker: Steven Farber, Business Development Advisor at Initiative for the Middle East. Has worked with the Embassy of Canada in Israel, at the Quartet with Tony Blair and at the Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Overnight: Harmony hotel, Jerusalem SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19 08:30-10:00 Speaker Eitan Koter, Co- Founder of Vimmi: http://vimmi.net/ 10:30-12:30 Tour of the Jerusalem security barrier with Col. (res) Dany Tirza, former head of strategic planning of the Security Barrier for the Ministry of Defense 13:00 14:00 Pizur Lunch 14:30-17:00 Visit Israel's National Holocaust Museum, Yad Vashem 17:45-19:15 Return to hotel and time to freshen up 19:15-20:00 Yad Vashem debriefing at hotel 20:15 Dinner at Eucalyptus restaurant
Speaker Bassem Eid, Political Analyst and Commentator, Arab and Palestinian's Affairs Overnight: Harmony Hotel, Jerusalem MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Day in the Arava Desert and check-out 07:30 Start the Mifgash (meet with Israeli university students specializing in entrepreneurship) 07:45-10:00 Drive South to Arava Desert 10:30 Visit the Arava Institute. Meeting with Director Boaz Horowitz and researchers: http://arava.org/ 12:00 Lunch at Ofaime farm 13:00-15:30 Dune Buggy in the desert 16:00 18:30 Work Session with the Arava Institute 19:00 Dinner at Bar Bamidbar, Hatzeva Speakers AICAT (Arava International Center for Agriculture Training) Masters students (Students travelled from Kenya, Ethiopia, and other African countries to learn Israel s agricultural techniques and apply it to their home country Overnight: In the Arava Desert
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 and check-out 08:00 Drive to Masada (Ancient Roman/Jewish fortress on top of mountain - a UNESCO world heritage site) 09:15-11:00 Cable car up Masada and tour site 11:15-14:15 Rest swim and lunch at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dead Sea (the lowest place on earth; the sea is so salty that you float!) 14:15-17:30 Drive north along the Jordanian border 17:30-19:15 Check-in at Kibbutz Gonen guest house (Kibbutz = communal settlement in Israel) 19:30-21:00 Dinner at hotel 21:00 Group session Overnight: Kibbutz Gonen WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22 and check-out 07:15 Depart hotel 08:15-09:30 Savta Gamila hear the story of how a Druze woman in a rural community began her own business
10:30-11:45 Visit to Trendlines. Trendlines invents, discovers, invests in, and incubates innovation-based medical and agricultural technologies. 13:30-14:00 Lunch at BioBee Cafeteria 14:15-16:15 Visit to BioBee Biological Systems (leading international companies in the field of biologically based Integrated Pest Management, Natural Pollination, and Medfly Control) at Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu Hotel Check in Tel Aviv 18:30 GreenSoil presented by Tomer Tzach, the CEO of Cropx, At Golan Hall level H, Dan Panorama Hotel Pizur dinner on own in Tel Aviv Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23 08:00 Depart Hotel 09:15-10:30 Abe Finkelstein General Partner at Vintage Investment Partners: http://vintage-ip.com/ Golan Hall level H, Dan Panorama Hotel 11:00-11:30 Overview of Tel Aviv and the Mediterranean Sea atop the Azrieli Tower Israel s most famous skyscraper
11:30-13:00 Tour at the Sarona Market, pizur lunch 13:30-15:00 Google Offices, Tel Aviv 15:45-17:00 Tour the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and meet with Kobi Abramov, Head of Research at Tel Aviv Stock Exchange 17:30-19:00 Argus Cyber Security: Cyber security for automobiles 19:30 Dinner at Goshen, Nahalat Binyamin St 30 Speaker: Dr. Einat Wilf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/einat_wilf Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 09:00 Depart hotel 09:15 Elmind-a: Developing a revolutionary way for measuring Brain Health 14 Maskit st., POB# 12941, Herzliya, 4673314 Israel 12:00-13:30 3D Printing Company 13:30 Free time, pizur lunch and shopping at Nahalat Binyamin, arts & crafts outdoor Market, Ha'carmel Market and trendy Sheinkin street 15:00 Tour of Jaffa (ancient city) and Neve Tzedek neighborhoods 17:30 19:00 Work Session and Final Group Summary
Golan Hall level H Dan Panorama Hotel 20:00 Dinner at Old Man on the Sea Kedem Street 85, Jaffa Overnight: Dan Panorama Hotel, Tel Aviv SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25 9:30 Work Session Golan Hall level H, Dan Panorama Hotel 11:00-12:30 Former Ambassador Vivian Bercovici Golan Hall level H, Dan Panorama Hotel Free Time 18:00 Check out 19:30 Farewell dinner at Racha restaurant Ahad Ha'Am St 1, Tel Aviv Transfer to Airport. Depart EL AL Airlines Sunday, Feb 26 at 00:35