BGU & YOU | Spring 2024

“Ben-Gurion University being a leader in technology and innovation can find ways through technological advancement to spread the light of what the Jewish state has to offer.”

special draw for South African Halutz fellow Daniel Yacobi: “BGU carries a legacy that drives vision and innovation. I would like to promote BGU in the SADC countries community.” His compatriot, Tanya Golan, adds, “Ben-Gurion University being a leader in technology and innovation can find ways through technological advancement to spread the light of what the Jewish state has to offer.”

BGU’s strategic role in the Negev, “Ben-Gurion University plays a systemically significant role for the entire region. It supports infrastructure and creates jobs and thus consolidates life in Israel’s strategic location, the Negev.” For more information, or to express interest in joining the Halutz Initiative for Global Leadership, please contact your local BGU association.

Through their visit to the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research and Ben Gurion's gravesite at Sde Boker, the fellows gained a deeper understanding of the region's special significance to the country’s future and potential contributions to solving global problems such as climate change. This resonated especially with Russian-Israeli Anna Bokshitskaya who highlighted

Cohort III of the Halutz Initiative with the President of the State of Israel, Isaac Herzog, in Jerusalem