Two TAMID Fellows are currently interning at NoTraffic, a Tel Aviv-based startup that is changing how cities manage their traffic. We asked how the internship is going so far -- here are their answers. Oren Mendelow, TAMID Fellow "As my first internship, I had no idea what to expect when...
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Justin Simms, a student at Cornell currently in Israel on the TAMID Fellowship, is interning this summer at the Tel Aviv headquarters of a startup startup called Hibob. "My experience this summer as an intern in Tel Aviv has radically altered my perspective," Simms writes in a blog post for Hibop. Click here to...
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By: Scott Levine, Indiana University You stroll down the aisle with your shopping cart in the local grocery store. Your list conveys you need ketchup, peanut butter, frozen pizza, water bottles, and yogurt. When you arrive at the aisles of these items, you are presented a...
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Hi everyone and good morning, I’m Benji Schwartz, a Jerusalem TAMID Fellow from the Brandeis University Chapter, interning this summer for the Reshut Lpituach Yerushalaim, the Jerusalem Development Authority. It is an honor to be speaking here today. Though I’ve only been a part of the...
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By: Sarah Torgueman, Yeshiva University “Were you just in China??” That was the first greeting I got when I saw my fellow TAMID interns on the Tel Aviv beach last weekend. Yes, rumors were true. I’d just gotten off the flight from China after spending a...
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By: Eden Shamir, University of Florida Coming onto this trip with pretty minimal expectations, I figured I would be content with nearly anything planned for us. Never would I have imagined the immense impact this trip would have on me. I was prepared to visit typical...
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By: Nyan Pendyala, Indiana University and McKinley Hall, George Washington University My one goal outside of work this summer was to go to the Dead Sea. All May, when friends and family asked me what I was looking forward to the most I said, in no...
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By: Ezra Soriano, UCLA Just a mere 15 years ago, two principal questions surrounding Israel and its blooming start-up nation were...
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By: Alex Wineman, University of Michigan This past weekend, TAMID fellows had the opportunity to travel to Jerusalem. In a city with thousands of years of history, the tour guides packed as much information as they could into two short days. We began our tour of...
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By: Ariela Hekmat, University of California, Berkeley TAMID’s opening night at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange was a perfect preview to the amazing summer to come. With all 230 participants in one room, I couldn’t help but feel overwhelmed. However, I felt more thrilled to be...
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