Fellowship Friends and Family, My name is Yonah Liben, TAMID Group's Chief Program Officer and head of the Israel office. TAMID’s four-person Israel Team oversees all aspects of the summer Fellowship, including cultivating and maintaining relationships with top Israeli companies, managing the process of admitting and...
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Co-Authored by Mollie Cole, U. Miami and Idan Meir, Co-Founder + CEO RightHear Mollie served as Intern/Community & Content Manager for RightHear the summer of 2017 through TAMID Fellowship Program Hosting a TAMID Intern? Here’s how to make the most of the experience: TAMID interns are some of...
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By: Alexandra Bergman, University of Maryland It’s been a little over 2 weeks since I’ve been home and Israel is much too quickly becoming a memory. For 221 TAMID Fellows, we’ve arrived home and have integrated back into daily home routines: rushing to see friends before we...
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By: Abby Shulman, University of Wisconsin-Madison As August arrives and the fellowship sadly comes to an end, we reminisce on what made this summer so special. There is a unanimous agreement amongst the TAMID 2017 fellows that this has been the best summer of our lives....
Read MoreBy: Isaak Garber, Summer Fellow, Harvard University It’s a typical Sunday night in Florentin, Tel Aviv. We’re about to leave a pizza store on Ahad Ha’am Street. An AC unit drips an unidentified fluid onto the middle of my forehead. I cuss under my breath. He...
Read MoreTAMID at Cornell University Name: Yoni Krakow University: Cornell University Graduating Year: 2018 Major (+Minor): Economics + Jewish Studies, Business Internship Company: Glilot Capital Partners Internship Role: Venture Capital Intern Awesome Experience: Being on the TAMID fellowship has been an absolutely incredible experience. Working in the Venture Capital industry has exposed me to Israel’s amazing startup culture and I...
Read MoreTAMID at Washington University Name: Talia Laifer University: Washington University Graduating Year: 2018 Major (+Minor): Marketing and Entrepreneurship Internship Company: Cymbio Internship Role: Sales and Marketing Intern Awesome Experience: One of my absolute favorite experiences of the summer was praying before Shabbat in Nitzana, a little town in the middle of the desert. The sunset was perfect, it...
Read MoreBy: Ben Dayanim, Summer Fellow, University of Maryland Last week, all three cohorts gathered on the rooftop of WIX. For those of you who don’t know, WIX is a cloud-based web development platform and among the Startup Nation’s top success stories. It’s cool. We had the...
Read MoreBy: Melissa Kaplan, Summer Fellow, Harvard University Last week, my boss Chaim Motzen arranged a private gathering in his apartment in Jerusalem for our company with Saul Singer, co-author of the New York Times bestseller, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. In his book,...
Read MoreTAMID at University of Maryland Name: Ben Dayanim University: University of Maryland Graduating Year: 2018 Major (+Minor): Finance & Information Systems Internship Company: LionBird Venture Capital Internship Role: Venture Analyst Awesome Experience: Working at LionBird has been an invaluable experience. When interning in the states, meaningful work can be hard to come by. Here, however, I’m lucky enough to...
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