Chemi Peres
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118 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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For the first time and the last time in my life, I experienced what it means to be fired. It's a very humiliating event. I'm not going to be fired again.
I always wanted to engage with new technologies, to meet other people. And when I looked at venture, I thought this is the right way to go, to raise money, to invest it in the best and brightest. It's very fulfilling.
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Thank you, Ilana. It's a pleasure to be here.
Well, I don't know anything else. That's what I know. But I can tell you this. First of all, I have two wonderful parents. And if you imagine a picture, the view of the life consists of vertical and horizontal lines. I think my mother gave me the horizontal ones, the modesty. And my father gave me the vertical ones to aspire, to dream, to serve a great cause.
And if you combine those lines, you get a beautiful picture. But I think I can say that it's growing by inspiration because he was very busy out of his life. He had very little time for family, but in the very little time, it was so meaningful. And out of the person meetings, a lot of inspiration was flowing our way. So I was lucky and I'm grateful for that.
I think it's not easy to grow in a house where you have someone who is so dominant. It can crash you, but it can also give you a lot of inspiration. So I think we were lucky in this family. First of all, my mother made sure that we separate the family affairs than state affairs. And she was very protective. And he always gave us the notion that whatever we choose, whatever we do is fine.
as long as we are decent people, as long as we follow our hearts. So I think when you are young, you need to build your muscles, you need to build your standing for who you are, not for what you are. And I think as you grow and you are safer, then you can get closer and closer. And I think that's the pattern that we followed in our life.
At the beginning, you shy away because you really want to be the person you are and not have anyone judge you for your father. So anything that you did good, people may say it's because of him and everything bad is a disappointment. But I think we're lucky. We came up normal. We came up stable. And each one of us chose a different direction. And I'm happy with what I did.
But as you grow, you tend to get closer. And that's beautiful. I'm grateful that he lived to 93 and we had all the time to catch up.
To make it short, in the middle of the course, you run through medical tests.
Yeah. In my time, it was like two years. It's a course of two years. And after a year, I went to regular checkup. and they discovered that my lungs are not functioning fully. When I was a child, I had a very severe asthma. There were a lot of liquids in my lungs, so I was not able to get 100 percent functionality of my lungs.
As a result, they reduced my medical profile to such a level that I had to leave the flight course. Since I wanted to be a warrior, a combat participant, I went back to the green military service in a platoon of tanks. I spent a year in the army, but I was very anxious to get back to the flight course because I felt that they went too far with me.
Initially, my profile was so low that I had to do back office activities. I managed to lift it up a little bit, which allowed me to serve as a combat participant. And later on, I convinced them that I'm doing fine, that I'm capable of functioning, and they agreed to bring me back to the flight course with certain limitations. And it allowed me to finish the course as a helicopter pilot.
Since I wanted to be a combat helicopter pilot, I was very happy and lucky to join a squadron of Cobra, which is an attack helicopter. And altogether, I spent 10 years in the Israeli Defense Forces.
I think I learned a few lessons. First of all, I learned how the human factor is so important in success in anything that you do. If you have quality people, your chances to be successful are higher. I also discovered the power of technology, what it can be used for, and the advantage it gives you if you know how to operate it well. I also learned that honesty is crucial to survivability.
And this is why everything that we did, we briefed and debriefed every day. We were touching the toughest points in order to learn and make sure that we do not repeat the same mistakes. Because if you do, it may cost you your life. So that was the lesson for life for me.
I think the briefing was extended to other branches in the Israeli Defense Forces, which is good. A lot of other platoons and battalions learned from the Air Force this process. this magical, important process, and they implemented almost all of the military parts. I think, though, that it is a showstopper for a lot of people from the Air Force to join the political arena.
Because in politics, you're not necessarily sticking to the truth, and you invent a lot of stories. For pilots, people that spend many years as pilots in the Israeli Air Force, it's very tough for them. They're not used to swimming in dark waters, they feel much better exposed to the sunlight, where they actually show their flaws and their mistakes and everything.
It's not really goes hand in hand.
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