Chemi Peres
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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And it's a legacy that is worth carrying on. So I took it upon myself to continue and carry the legacy forward and augment everything that we did at the center. Especially in the last years of his life, we started to work on the innovation center at the Paris Center. And I understood it's not only about peace building activities through projects that the center has been doing.
We need now to fill in much more functions. And the most important one is the innovation. wrote in his will, we need to protect the island and calm the ocean. We thought that innovation and technology is the best way to protect the island and calm the ocean. So we stick to that. And now we work on the Future Institute. We are now building the Future Institute because we think it's essential.
that people will look forward into the future, try to imagine what the future brings to us. The future is sending signs. Methodologically, you need to be able to identify them and separate them from noise and get ready for what's happening next, whether it's AI, whether it's climate change, and take action, not just be a think tank, but a do tank. So we're working on that.
That's the third layer of the center. If the first one was privatizing peace, the second one was building the innovation center, and now it's about the future.
Some people say that you need to wear two hats, but I'm saying I wear one hat with two hats. I'm a believer in the same things that he believed in. We shared the love for innovation, for technology. We believe that the future holds so much promise. If you marry this with values, human values, make sure that it goes on the right way. So it's very easy for me to do that. That's what I'm doing.
And I have an amazing team at the center, which makes it even easier. But I feel that he's with us, and I think that we carry the legacy forward. And I'm having these discussions from time to time with him, spiritually, of course.
And I think he would have been proud the way the center continues to operate and get an impact by fostering innovation and entrepreneurship, optimism, future looking, forward looking, and all the activities that we do with all the people that come from abroad and from within Israel. And of course, working with Arab countries. It's very fulfilling.
So I combined my work at Bitango with the center and it works quite well, I must say.
Well, Guy was an illustrator, very talented, very smart, very bright. I won't say a genius, but maybe he was a genius. Very capable, extremely smart and knowledgeable. You'd never win when you argued with him. He had a very clear view of the world. And from a very early stage in his life, he was focused on superheroes and gaming and movie and music, comics.
and graphic novels, and he was an illustrator. And he decided to study illustration in the Academy of Art in San Francisco. And he went to San Francisco and spent five years there. We would often come and visit him. And he just came back home when corona started, and he had his own studio at home. And in 2021, we spoke about the fact that this world
of creativity, superheroes, this world of imagination and creation of stories and figures is not well accepted in Israel as it is in Japan or in the US, Europe. It's not yet developed and he wanted to develop it. So we started to work on a project which was called Yucca Monsters. And the idea was to start with a concept store in Tel Aviv that we showcased the most exciting product.
and then do it also online. And then, as we continue to scale, we'll set up a publishing house, very unique, the first of its kind in Israel, to publish comics and graphic novels, and then start a studio that will foster and support young artists and ideas to tell stories. We can grow them into the global markets. We found a place in Tel Aviv. We started to design it.
Guy started to create lists of products that we want to bring. And then we were in New York for a few days. He stayed in his apartment with his dog and we left our dog with him. We communicated he wanted to buy some stuff in the US and he sent us stuff to the hotel to pick it up.
And then all of a sudden we didn't hear from him and we got very worried because it was not something that we would accept or expect. And we called him and he didn't answer. So we sent our daughter to see if everything is okay. Unfortunately, he was 33 years old. He got a cardiac failure that killed him. in seconds.
And only later on, when we did the autopsy, we discovered that he had myocarditis in his heart, the beginning of heart disease. But its first appearance was cardiac heart failure. It was devastating, painful, unimaginable. Nothing that people that did not go through this can understand. There is a wall between the room that people that lost their kids are in to those who did not.
There is no bridge, so nobody can understand it. What I decided to do together with my family is to carry on with his legacy, to build the Yuko Monsters without him, to realize his dream. and to make his life meaningful, because they were very short. They were very meaningful, but very short. And he realized his dream.
And at the same time, we formed the cathedral in Shankar, which is a visual school. And in this cathedral, we are doing also some amazing stuff for others. We pay scholarships for people from the periphery. We give awards to students that excel.
We started a master's degree in game design, and we launched an AI research center, which is called Parameter, which is doing AI for visual communication, which is quite fascinating. So there is no comfort. There is no cure. It's an ever-ending story. Time doesn't do any good. But you have to live with it. There's nothing we can do about it. It's irreversible.
We tried to think about the fact that he had a beautiful life. At that point, he did everything that he wanted. He was very gifted. He traveled the world. He studied. He had amazing friends that loved him. He had everything besides luck to keep on living.
Of course, I'm aware of it. It was important for me to keep him with us. The fact that he's not alive anymore doesn't mean that he will be faded away. So he's part of the family. His dog now is with us. So every day we walk into a morning and yeah, morning and evening, his car is with us.
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