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Gibrael Chamber leads 5th business delegation to Israel
By Eran Shay, Gibrael President
In March, a business delegation from Gibraltar travelled to Israel as part of a trade mission led by the Gibraltar-Israel Chamber of Commerce (Gibrael). This 5th delegation saw delegates from a cross-section of sectors including property, education, retail and banking who came not only to explore business opportunities but also to witness some of the latest technological innovations developed in Israel and get inspiration and ideas which they can then implement back home.
As part of the four day trade-mission, the delegation travelled to four cities: Tel Aviv, Haifa, Kfar-Saba and Jerusalem, visited three technology accelerators, met with countless entrepreneurs and attended two large conferences. “We like each of our delegations to be completely different from one another and hence develop a unique itinerary for each delegation” said Ayelet Mamo Shay, Gibrael Chamber Chairwoman. “Gibraltar is a small jurisdiction and we believe it is not fair to introduce our delegates to the same network of contacts in Israel, and so we work hard on making each delegation unique”, adds Ayelet.
An important aspect of the delegation was to network with many interesting and diverse professionals from a wide variety of sectors. Participating at the Tel Aviv FinTech Week Conference, delegates met many FinTech entrepreneurs and heard about some of the latest trends in the Blockchain industry, with Gibraltar featuring prominently amongst the jurisdictions mentioned.
OurCrowd Global Investors Summit In Jerusalem the delegation attended the OurCrowd Global Investors Summit, which saw over 10,000 investors and entrepreneurs from 183 countries attending. According to Nadine Collado of the University of Gibraltar: “Being part of this weeks’ Gibrael Delegation has been a very positive experience for the University of Gibraltar. With a particular emphasis on meeting senior representatives of Hitech start-ups as well as a variety of top-level institutions and meeting executive members of universities we are now looking at establishing collaborations with relevant
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