The trading day at TASE opened this morning with the symbolic opening bell press to mark the tenth launch of Global Entrepreneurship Week. The ceremony featured entrepreneurs, investors, professional experts, students, and key women industry leaders on stage.
Global Entrepreneurship Week events encompass activities that transcend all sectoral, religious and cultural divides, with a special emphasis on the social periphery.
The Entrepreneurship Week is a flagship project of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), which serves as an annual platform of programs and initiatives created by communities of entrepreneurs, professional experts, and investors worldwide. The organization aids entrepreneurs in building quality ventures and achieving significant accomplishments while strengthening economic stability.
The event featured a notable lineup of participants, including: Tal Kollender, Entrepreneur and CEO of Remedio, a former hacker who built a cyber company with a first funding round valued at US$ 300 million; Sandy Hefftz, Entrepreneur and CEO of Bellboy Robotics, who was part of the success of "Beresheet," which put Israel on the map of nations that reached the moon; Adv. Anwar Saab, successful serial high-tech entrepreneur (Ntech Genecit); Orly Nicklass, who navigates change and mentors companies back to a growth trajectory; Danny Leshem and Yoav Amit, Entrepreneurs-Investors (OpenRest, INT3); Adv. Ronya Rubinstein, Tech Xfer and Entrepreneur (EndoSpot, MindUP); Inon Axel, Entrepreneur and Investor (Ksamaba, Cyrus); Tal Abuloff, Venture Capital Investor (Viola Ventures); Shai Morag, Cyber Entrepreneur and Investor (Secdo, Ermetic), among others.
Ayla Matalon, Chairperson, Global Entrepreneurship Network (Israel): "Global Entrepreneurship Week is launched today at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange under the banner “A Fresh Start,” coinciding with parallel events in 180 countries worldwide. The critical role of entrepreneurship in driving economic stability and dynamic growth cannot be overstated. This year's Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to researchers Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt for developing models that describe how innovation drives long-term economic expansion. Joel Mokyr demonstrated that an open political and intellectual environment, which encourages curiosity and scientific discourse, is essential for innovation growth. The work of Aghion and Howitt shows that free competition is a necessary element in advancing innovation, which yields monopolistic profit, at least for a short period.
Entrepreneurship supersedes the “zero-sum game” concept, leading to an expansion of the pie that generates prosperity across broad spheres of influence. The high-tech sector is a central component of Israeli economic growth. Over the last three decades, the 'Start-up Nation' has created hundreds of thousands of quality jobs and contributed hundreds of billions of dollars to the state treasury. This is attributed to the Israeli culture, which encourages excellence, directness, and a readiness to challenge authority and fundamental assumptions, supported by strong technological infrastructure and research institutions, a robust legal system, and a stable financial system. In the last two years, Israeli society has demonstrated an impressive capacity for resilience during a difficult and challenging time. Alongside the rebuilding of global confidence in the Israeli economy, we are seeing signs of recovery in the technological entrepreneurship sector, and we believe that international investment bodies will increasingly invest in what Israel has to offer."
Tom Alhadif, Head of Sales and Market Development at TASE: “TASE is committed to equipping you - the entrepreneurs - with the essential tools you need to scale globally, from facilitating global IPOs and specialized dual-listing frameworks for companies, to implementing smart, AI-powered translations of corporate reports on TASE, and shifting to a Monday through Friday trading week, effective January 2026. We are determined to support Israeli companies, both new and established, as they grow and scale globally.”
In the picture from right to left: Eli Liraz; Adv. Anwar Saab; Michal Levi Medina, Tal Kollender; Tom Alhadif; Ayla Matalon; (Sandy Hefftz at the back, appears in the folllowing photos); Danny Leshem; Liron Grosman; Yuval Rothstein; Shira Simonovitch; Adv. Ronya Rubinstein; Tal Abuloff.
Credit - Yarden Vaknin, without monetary consideration.
