Connections, Connections, Connections

In real estate the mantra is  what are the three most important points: location, location, location.

And here in Israel we certainly know how important location is -- for 2000 years the Jewish people stayed focused on one particular location -- no other physical place would do.

This morning I had the honor of greeting a group visiting from Colorado, here as part of a United Jewish Communities mission. I was asked to address them on my view of the high-tech industry in Israel, along with Ed Mlavsky, Chairman and founding partner of Gemini Israel Funds (Ed's blog can be found here, please urge him to write more, he is a founding father of the Israeli high-tech industry and we all can learn from  him).

So I was asked how it came to be that I was invited to address the group, and while that was easy, it was my friend Larry Tishkoff from UJC, we could not remember how I first met Larry. But once the connection was created, immediately a web of other connections began, and continues to grow.

I told the group that the most important change that has occurred in Israel, and a major reason for the continued expansion of the Israeli high-tech industry into new and exciting areas, is that location/location/location has been replaced by connections/connections/connections. Now that doesn't mean location isn't important, after all this group had come all the way from Colorado to see the physical land of Israel and its people dwelling within -- they would not be satisfied with some virtual or vicarious experience of Israel. But given today's modern infrastructure, our web of connections can grow more quickly in a few days than over the twenty years before that infrastructure was in place.

And then appropriately enough, as a token of appreciation for coming out to meet with them, the group gave us copies of a beautiful book called Colorado Skies, which only served to emphasize the importance of location.

And just think, if you were not part of Noah's expanded web of connections years ago, you would have been outside of the Ark -- not a place I would want to be!

Keep those connections moving, pass it forward, and may we all one day  feel truly connected.

In peace,

Jacob

Comments

[Esther Davidson]

Hi Jacob-

Those years as an English major surely
have borne fruit. You are the best representative of Jerusalem that I know, but then again I may be prejudiced.

From
Westwood Road
Woodmere
New York State
the US of A
Esther Davidson