Ambassador Ido Aharoni
Global Distinguished professor at New York University’s School of International Relations, and Former Consul General of Israel in New York.
ENTREPRENEUR, CO-FOUNDER OF WAZE AND FEEX
Uri Levine
Uri Levine is a passionate serial entrepreneur and mentor to other entrepreneurs.
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Levine co-founded Waze, the world’s largest driving traffic and navigation app, with more than 200M drivers worldwide. Google acquired it on June 2013 for more than $1.1B.
After Waze, Levine then co-founded FeeX, where he presently serves as Chairman. FeeX is a new startup that helps identify and reduce hidden fees on financial services, and addresses a problem in the size of $600B in the US alone. FeeX allows users to recover hundreds of thousands of dollars in their retirement and long-term investment plans.
Levine focuses solely on consumer services, especially those which can generate value for many users.
He creates a better world for consumers, empowering them with information, saving them both time and money, in other words: he focuses on doing good and doing well.
Levine is also co-founder and board member of half a dozen startups:
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Chairman and first investor at Zeek – a marketplace for unused store credit, addressing $100B of loss store credits every year.
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Member of the board and co-founder of Roomer – a marketplace for non-refundable hotel reservations, a $20B annual loss.
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Founder, Chairman and first investor of FairFly – a travel-tech company providing seamless and automated solutions for travel management companies and enterprises, enabling significant reductions in business travel costs, after ticketing.
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Member of the board of Moovit – an app similar to Waze, though geared for public transportation. The app currently serves about 25M commuters, in over 600 cities around the world.
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Founder, Chairman and first investor of Engie – an app that directly connects to a car’s computer, running diagnostics and generating cost estimates ahead of a user’s visit to the auto shop.
Uri has been in the high tech business for the last 30 years, with half that time spent in the startup scene. He has experienced everything ranging from failure, middle success and extreme success.
Special Speaker
Musical Guests
Cantor Moses
Cantor Moses began his career at the age of 25 at the Shaare Zion Congregation in Montreal. Since 2001, he has been the Cantor at Beth Sholom Synagogue in Toronto where he continues to inspire those around him with the rich musical traditions of the Jewish people. He has appeared at concert halls across Europe, Israel, the United States and Canada. He proudly attended The Hebrew University in 1990/91 – a pivotal year in his Jewish growth.
The Ruach Singers
The Ruach Singers is an 8-voice a cappella world music ensemble working in an innovative new art form inspired by traditional Hebrew music and the endless possibilities of the human voice. Established in 2014 in partnership with the Beth Sholom Synagogue in Toronto, The Ruach Singers represent a revolution in Jewish liturgical writing. Their musical style is referred to as “Tradition Re-envisioned”.
