Welcome to another episode of Impacting Israel, where we hope to bring you – our English-speaking, Israel-engaged audience, a range of voices not regularly heard from in our circles. I am your host, JJ Sussman, and through my role as the International Director of Gesher, I am privileged to develop relationships with many of these important voices. Today, I'm looking forward to speaking with our very special guest Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach – MD, General Director of Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh).

Dr. Levtzion-Korach has been named one of the 20 women who have changed Israeli healthcare, one of Israel’s most influential women, and was recently nominated by The Marker Magazine, a leading business journal in Israel, as one of the 100 most influential people in Israeli economics. Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach graduated from The Hebrew University–Hadassah University Medical School in both Pediatrics and Hospital Management. After earning a master’s degree in health administration from Tel Aviv University, she worked at the Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Clinical Research and Practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Upon her return from the US to Israel in 2008, Dr. Levtzion-Korach served as Deputy Director of Assaf Harofeh Medical Center. In 2012, she was appointed Director of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, becoming the first woman to ever lead a Hadassah Hospital. In 2017 she was appointed Director-General of Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, the first woman to lead an Israeli public hospital. Her areas of expertise are patient safety, quality of care, and process improvement. She is a married mother of four sons and lives in Jerusalem.

Welcome to another episode of Impacting Israel, where we hope to bring you – our English-speaking, Israel-engaged audience, a range of voices not regularly heard from in our circles. I am your host, JJ Sussman, and through my role as the International Director of Gesher, I am privileged to develop relationships with many of these important voices. Today, I'm excited and looking forward to speaking with our very special guest, Yitzik Crombie.

Yitzik Crombie is a seasoned Haredi HiTech executive entrepreneur. He is also the recent author of an important Hebrew-language book “When the Haredim Will be the Majority” analyzing the growing dominant Haredi demographic in Israel. In addition to founding Bizmax Business hub, his other ventures include iSale, the Haredi Hi-Tech forum and Mego. Bizmax – an innovative business center for Haredi men in Jerusalem – is run in collaboration with the Kemach Foundation, the Jerusalem Development Authority, and the Achim Foundation. Bizmax serves as a community and business center that caters to the Haredi community. The hub’s goal is to cultivate and nurture self-employed individuals, business owners, and entrepreneurs, and help them bring their businesses to the next level of success and productivity. He is a past researcher for,the Haredi Institute for Public Affairs. The Machon specializes in strategic planning, development, implementation and promotion of data-based policies and research in everything related to Haredi society in Israel. Yitzik lives In Kfar Chabad, a small village of Haredi people next to Ben Gurion airport, with his wife Efrat and their 5 children.

Today we are joined by Tal Shalev, one of the leading journalists in Israel and chief political correspondent for Walla News, Israel’s largest independent, 24 hour news and analysis website. With years experience as an international reporter, Tal brings insight and nuance to explaining and understanding the political landscape in Israel in a global context. As the daughter of Chemi Shalev born and raised on the news, Tal and her father continue to this day to debate current events and their likely future impacts. Five months into the war, she shares her thoughts on the US / Israeli relationship, the realignment of the Israeli electorate to the right, why the reservists are an unlikely political block unto themselves, and why the bigger issue than Haredim conscription is actually education and integration into the Israeli workforce of the future.

Please listen to our podcast, Impacting Israel, by our host JJ Sussman, to hear the full interview, and Tal’s provocative and candid reflections.

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