Queen Elizabeth awards Israeli businessman Haim Shani singular stately honor
Buckingham Palace will endowment Israeli businessman Haim Shani a singular stately respect for his grant to strengthening a record partnership between a United Kingdom and Israel, a stately chateau announced Tuesday.
The British Ambassador to Israel, David Quarrey, will designate Shani as an Honorary Officer of a Order of a British Empire (OBE) on interest of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday.
Shani, a former director-general of a Ministry of Finance and co-founder of Israel Growth Partners, has worked as non-executive authority of a UK Israel Tech Hub given a investiture in 2011. He has overseen a smoothness of 175 creation partnerships between UK and Israeli companies with a intensity value to a British economy of adult to £800 million (approx. $1.04 billion).
The Hub, a public-private initiative, operates out of a British Embassy in Israel and aims to foster record and creation partnerships between a dual countries, particularly in areas such as cyber security, fintech, biomedicine, destiny sell and intelligent mobility.
“I am gay to benefaction this respect to Haim Shani on interest of Her Majesty The Queen. Through his faith in a intensity of partnership between a UK and Israel, Haim has helped renovate a tech partnership between a dual countries,” Quarrey said.
“We have benefited hugely from Haim’s knowledge and wisdom. we am beholden to Haim for his purpose in creation a UK Israel Tech Hub a success and for pioneering this new form of mercantile diplomacy.”
In new years, shared trade between Israel and a UK has regularly damaged records, reaching $7.2b. in 2016 and $9.1b. in 2017, according to a Central Bureau of Statistics. The UK is a second largest trade partner worldwide for Israeli goods, after a United States.
In a initial half of 2018, amid doubt surrounding Britain’s trade destiny with a European neighbors, British exports to Israel soared by some 75%.
“In a brief time a UK Israel Tech Hub has combined cultivatable collaborations that lift good value both for a UK economy and Israeli innovation. The fact that The Palace chose to endowment me with this respect demonstrates how critical this beginning is for a UK, and we am beholden for that,” pronounced Shani.
“In light of a Hub’s success in a past 7 years, a UK is now seeking opportunities to hurl out a Israeli indication worldwide. Israeli creation is in high direct in a UK, and a Hub will continue to emanate opportunities in a UK for belligerent violation innovation.”
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