The strategic partnership between the Edmond de Rothschild Foundation and the Feuerstein Institute is a wonderful example of a partnership based on a shared vision, and a partnership between people. The innovative model of the Feuerstein Institute and its impressive results are leading to the creation of additional alternatives to enable the access to academic studies. I have no doubt that in the long term this model will become a bridge that will enable thousands of young people from the social peripheries to study at prestigious departments of Israel’s leading universities.

Start-Up Nation Central is dedicated to strengthening Israel’s innovation ecosystem, and works to reduce the lack of high-quality developers for the Israeli hi-tech industry, by establishing and running training programs for people from Israel’s social periphery. These programs are built in partnership with the Feuerstein Institute, leading hi-tech firms, and other partner organizations, and target ultra-orthodox women, the Israeli-Arab population, and newly released soldiers.