Top Global Friends Events
TAU Review 2018 Issue
Toronto: Future of Start-up Nation
From left: Nathan Disenhouse, Chair, CFTAU Ontario & Western Canada; Prof. Moshe Zviran; Jay Rosenzweig; Stephen Adler, Executive Director for Ontario and Western Canada
Dean of the Coller School of Management Moshe Zviran spoke to alumni, Friends and entrepreneurs at separate gatherings in Toronto, including an event hosted by Jay Rosenzweig at his office, Rosenzweig & Company, while Josh Kerbal hosted lunch at Extreme Innovations. Guests enjoyed Prof. Zviran’s discussion of the future of the Start-up Nation and the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Israel.
Vienna: Thanking a Loyal Austrian Friend From left: Prof. Joseph Klafter and Dr. Hannes Androsch Credit: Laura Böhler
Seated from left: Prof. Joseph Klafter; Prof. Markus Müller Standing from left: Prof. Karen Avraham; Alexander Gertner, General Secretary of Austrian Friends; Christiane Druml, Director of the Josephinum at Medical University of Vienna
TAU Austrian Friends, in cooperation with Medical University of Vienna and Semper Constantia Privatbank, hosted a successful fundraising dinner. The funds will support joint projects in cancer, epilepsy and schizophrenia research. TAU President Joseph Klafter bestowed the TAU President’s Award upon the outgoing president of Austrian Friends, Dr. Hannes Androsch, for his 15 years of dedicated service to the University as well as his strengthening of ties between Austria and Israel. Along with Dr. Androsch, speakers included Prof. Markus Müller, Rector, Medical University of Vienna, and Dr. Bernhard Ramsauer, the incoming president of Austrian Friends. The keynote address was given by TAU Vice Dean of Medicine Prof. Karen B. Avraham. In a preceding event, an MoU for cooperation between TAU and the Medical University of Vienna was signed by Prof. Klafter and Rector Müller.
Zurich: World Currencies and the Shekel
Prof. Leo Leiderman
The Swiss Friends expanded their cooperation with the Switzerland-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Bank Hapoalim, Switzerland, at an event with TAU economist and Chief Economic Advisor to Bank Hapoalim Prof. Leo Leiderman. He lectured and then fielded questions from a group of 150 Swiss businesspeople on the state of the Israeli shekel in relation to the world’s leading currencies.
Frankfurt: Visiting the European Central Bank TAU Honorary Doctor and President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, hosted a German Friends delegation of donors, Friends and businesspeople, giving his insights into current monetary policies and the challenges facing the European Union. The delegation toured the European Central Bank’s headquarters at a site that was once used to detain thousands of Jews prior to their deportation for extermination in concentration camps.
From left: Mario Draghi with Uwe Becker, President of German Friends
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