Unistream’s JMBA is an exclusive three-year program designed to educate and train high school teens to become successful business and communal leaders. From writing a business plan to analyzing financials, from conducting market surveys to marketing a product, from befriending Ethiopian children to assisting seniors, participants acquire the essential tools, gain the knowledge and hone the skills, today, for becoming Israel\’s leaders, tomorrow.

1. Leadership Generating Change
Change Generating Leadership

2. Exposing kids to the secrets of
the business world at a young age
tremendously enhances their chances for
success – in any field they choose.
Rony Zarom,
Founder, Chairman of the Board

3. Growing up in Israel’s economically depressed city of Ramle,
Rony learned early on that once you...
Believe in yourself
Work hard
Learn from the right mentors
Cultivate professional skills
You can dramatically change your life. Rony did.
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4. Now, a successful entrepreneur, Rony decided to help other kids do the same.
Unistream is the realization of Rony’s vision.
Unistream – a network of centers in Israel exclusively created to cultivate and
nurture business and community leadership among teens.
Not just any teens.
Teens who grow up in poor circumstances
Teens who have never personally seen or experienced success
Not just any community.
Communities located in Israel’s periphery
Communities exceedingly poor in resources

5. Pillars of Success
Founded in 2001, Unistream’s comprehensive and dynamic
educational–training programs are based on
1 Leadership development and cultivation
Acquisition of professional, effective Business skills
2
Community involvement
3

6. Finding teens who
can succeed
A stringent screening process seeks out teens
¬ Exhibiting the best social, personal and leadership characteristics
¬ Possessing a spark of motivation, ambition and determination
Then Unistream shows them how they can change their lives.
If it hadn’t been for Unistream, I might have just
become a waiter. Now I have bigger dreams.
Gadi Goldstein

7. Success is Learned
The Unistream ¬ Workshops on starting, running and growing a business
3
given by leading businessmen and entrepreneurs
¬ Hands-on experience in conducting market research,
surveys and financial analyses
year
J-MBA ¬ Writing business plans, marketing strategies, workflow
charts and financial overviews
PROGRAM
¬ Practical advice from professionals in a myriad of fields
¬ Developing quality control and evaluation systems
¬ Establishing start-up companies from a to z
¬ Designing new products

8. Effecting Social Change
Unistream...one of the 60 leading initiatives with
the most potential to impact the future.
President Shimon Peres, 2008, at “Facing the Future” Conference, Jerusalem
¬ Unistream participants can be found in every venue of their
communities: from local schools and community centers to senior
centers and soup kitchens
¬ By effecting change in their communities, Unistream participants
are changing themselves and Israel’s future

9. Change, for the Better,
is Already Here*
10 250 450 100% 100%
Unistream teens begin the teens currently Jewish graduates are
Centers new cycle each in programs graduates serve committed
year (x 3 years) in IDF and/or to higher
National Service education
Kfar Yona | Ma’alot Tarshiha | Gilboa | Eilat | Afula | Or Yehuda | Hazor Haglilit | Nazareth Illit | Acco | Netivot
*these statistics reflect the first 103 graduates; new statistics available upon request.

10. Partnerships for Life
The Unistream Friends Forum comprises over
450 Israeli entrepreneurs, CEOs and VPs
Offering invaluable assistance, advice and practical help for Unistream participants
Serving as individual mentors
Opening doors for participants to Israel’s business world
Providing a model for leadership that combines business with community activism
Creating a symbiosis of success

11. Graduate
Mentoring & Training
Working closly with Unistream Friends, graduates of the Unistream
program can take advantage of a post-graduate program that combines
¬ Learning how to leverage one’s leadership skills
¬ Acquiring supplemental tools and knowledge
¬ Personal consultations on university-level studies
¬ Advice and assistance regarding advancement in the IDF
¬ Help with community volunteerism
¬ Encouraging business initiatives
¬ Successfully integrating in the business environment

12. Marching Forward
The Year: 2020
Operate 20 Unistream centers
Empower thousands of teens in Israel’s periphery
Enable dozens of new start-ups by Unistream alumni
Increase involvement in local communities
Grow into a nationwide model for cultivating business
and civic leadership among youth

13. At Unistream I learned that the sky is
the limit. More importantly, I learned
how to navigate my ambitions to
successfully reach my goals.
Hanan Horshid, Ma’alot-Tarshiha
2007 Unistream graduate, now in second year of law
at University of Haifa and working in a law firm

14. Iris Reff-Ronen, Executive Director
Iris@unistream.co.il • www.unistream.co.il

15. Lifetime
Recognition

16. Thanks

17. One People

18. Empowerment

19. Leadership

20. Experience

21. Engaging

22. State-of-the-art

23. Brainstorming

24. To Market

25. Friendship

26. Unistream Youth
at Work

27. Mentors

28. Working Together

29. Winner 2009

30. Persuasive

31. Entrepreneurial
Spirit

32. Competition

33. The Future