Chemi Peres
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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Lots of things that are present in our life, but you have to believe that there is some different shape of, or form of continuation. Cause it doesn't make sense that somebody vanishes is with us. And when I'm in the, in the store, And I see people coming in and I see how they look at the things and the impact it has. It fills me with a notion that he's with us, that he's proud, he's happy.
Although I know it's in our hearts and our heads, but it provides us some kind of, I will say, comfort. I would give everything to have him back, but we chose that route. We are, by the way, celebrating his birthday, not the passing day. So we're celebrating his birthday. And actually, the day after tomorrow, we officially launch the publishing house.
We already have four books out, but we're going to do an event to kick off.
Oh, you can go to the website, which is yuka, Y-U-K-A, monstersinoneword.com. And you can read the story and you can see the store and you can see the publishing house. You can get online and go shopping if you want. We are focused on Israel, of course, but you can see the activities and you can go to Shankar, S-A-G-N-K-A-R, and see the cathedral on Gai.
I think you can find most of it on yucamonsters.com.
The mission of the center, as was written in the spiritual will, in a brief way is to strengthen the island, protect it. The island means Israel, and calm the ocean, which is reduce hostility and calm the ocean. The way we do it is by the three platforms that we created. The first one is people-to-people projects. We call it privatizing peace or coexistence or shared future.
We work on a lot of programs with different people, mostly young people around sports, around healthcare, around business, around entrepreneurship, culture. And over the years, we impacted hundreds of thousands of people through these programs. The second one is to foster innovation, to provide a future for the young people to understand that They are capable to achieve everything.
They need to be entrepreneurs and they need to embrace what the world of technology and innovation is offering them. There's no limit to where they can go. So we showcase and we build a community and we do events and we do programs where we teach people across all walks of life about innovation. And the third mission is to bring Israel to the future.
to focus on nature, to learn how to research the future. I'm not talking about just futurists. I'm talking about every person, every company, in every aspect. It can be in healthcare, it can be in work, it can be in education. How do you deal with things that are going to disrupt or provide opportunities, whether they are man-made or nature-made, or a combination of the two?
Disruption and opportunities are scaling up and we need to be much more aware of the future. So for me, it's the human factor of people to people. It's the platform for innovation and entrepreneurship, and it's a deep look into the future. By doing that, we try to shape a new tomorrow. that can be shared by people, that is accessible to people.
Because, again, some people say that the Israelis are different tribes. They're not a people, they're tribes. I think it's a question of leadership. But most importantly, we are busy and looking backwards at what happened to us instead of looking at the future and see what the opportunities are. My father said that people prefer to remember than to think.
Remembering is the past, thinking is the future. And a lot of people are looking back at what they did, and they're very pleased sometimes with their achievements, but for him it was not important. What happened in the past is done, it's gone, we cannot change it. Whether it's a great success or a failure, you just need to rise up and move into the future. And the future sets the agenda for today.
So the past has been forgotten. The present has no meaning. And what sets your activities and agenda is the future. So we try to bring those values to as many people as possible.
It's a tough question because there is no reverse in history or in life. There's only forward. So I try to learn. I think one lesson is to spend more time with your parents and with your kids. It's precious. And don't let your weaknesses or feelings drive you apart. Stay focused on that because there's no moment that can be brought back in time. I'm saying it's relevant for my father.
It's relevant for my son. Maybe I would spend time in the US in a university earlier. I spent a couple of years in Silicon Valley, but maybe in an earlier stage in my life to help me calibrate myself. When you come from a small country like Israel, you have very few or very certain... Skewed.
And I think opening up to the world and learn from a great country like the US would have been helpful, I think, for me. I would read more, for sure. Maybe I would learn more languages. Maybe I would stick to my piano and guitar. In hindsight, there's a lot of things you can improve.
But with all the tragedies, I'm grateful for being lucky to be born as an Israeli at the time after the Second World War to such parents and to be a father for such great kids.
Thank you, Ilana. Appreciate it.
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