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Gideon (Gidi) Grinstein

Gideon (Gidi) Grinstein

Gidi masters the art of vision, strategy and leadership. Through the Reut Group, he built many ventures addressing big challenges facing Israel, the Jewish People and humanity.

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Gidi founded Reut, one of Israel's leading think-tanks, and leads TOM, fastest growing Tikkn Olam project recognized by Forbes Magazine. He deploys a unique approach to strategy and leadership across a range of issues facing Israel and the Jewish People, including national security, the de-legitimization of Israel, economic development and technology. His book, Flexigidity was a best seller.


Programs

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Flexigidity: The Secret Sauce of Judaism
Flexigidity - combining flexibility and rigidity within a societal whole - is the secret sauce of Jewish resilience, recurring prosperity and permanent leadership. In this lecture, which can be expanded to a seminar, Gidi shares his key ideas and offers a framework for understanding the Jewish People, Israel and American Jewry, past present and future, as well as to many other related issues.
2
Nation State Coalition: A New Vision for Israel-World Jewry Relations
This talk explores the emerging crisis in the relations between Israel and world Jewry and puts forward a new vision, which holds Israel to be the nation state of the entire Jewish People and a vibrant Diaspora to be a Zionist imperative, not a compromise. It comes with a discussion of unconventional approach to what can be done in your community to strengthen these relations.
3
TOM, the BOLDEST Tikkun Olam Project: 250,000,000 People Within a Decade
TOM - Tikkun Olam Makers - aims to help 250,000,000 people within a decade as a partnership between Israel and Jewish communities around the world, INCLUDING YOURS! This makes TOM a BOLD 'moon shot' project that defies conventional wisdom. In this talk, as its founder, I share TOM's remarkable story and am happy to explore bringing TOM to your community, federation, school or local university.
4
Seminar: The Fundamentals of Isareli-Palestinian Relations (So You Can Understand the Trump Plan when Revealed...)
Building on twenty years of work on the Israeli-Palestinian political process and using the real draft of the Camp David negotiations, this 3-part seminar explores the key issues that have defined Israeli-Palestinian relations such as Oslo, statehood, recognition, PLO and Palestinian Authority, June 4th 1967 Lines, End of Conflict, Refugees, Right of Return and the Holy Basin of Jerusalem.
5
Change in the Nature of Change: On the Future of Your Community
Leveraging 15 years of strategic work on key issues facing Israel and the Jewish community, this talk introduces a simple framework for understanding the impact of change the acceleration in the pace of change on your institutions and community. It can also turn into a workshop designed to give you deeper understanding of the specific challenges you face and the approach for moving forward.
Genres
  • Israel
  • Politics
  • Middle East

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Books
Flexigidity
Flexigidity
The Secret of Jewish Adapta...
2013
Gidi (Gideon) Grinstein
Articles
Newsletter 25 September, 2018:
5779: The Best Time Ever?
Newsletter 5 July, 2018:
July 4th 2018: Greatest Diaspora in the Greatest Nation
New York Times 4 July, 2018:
Where American Politics Still Works (Tom Friedman for the Fourth of July)
Times of Israel 26 July, 2017:
Time to End Diaspora Complacency
Times of Israel 7 November, 2012:
21st Century Tikkun Olam
Videos
Delegitimization of Israel: An Intro
On the Future of Communities (With Tom Friedman)
Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability
Booking Our Speakers

Weekday/Sunday programs are approximately one hour. Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence usually includes two talks, sometimes three.

Usually: The event price includes honorarium and all expenses, including international and domestic airfare and local expenses. We ask venues to provide home-hospitality for one night (for weekday/Sunday programs), or two nights (for Shabbat programs), or for multi-day programs, one night for each day of the event. If your venue is unable to provide home hospitality, an additional charge of $150 per night will be assessed to cover speaker expenses.

Need a special program for Shavuot, Holocaust Remembrence Day, or July 4th? We have suggestions.

Interested in booking Gideon (Gidi) Grinstein to speak at your next event? Contact Jewish Speakers Bureau (infREMOVEo@jewREMOVEishspeakerREMOVEsbureau.com), America's only speakers bureau for Jewish-interest speakers, authors, entertainers, and experts.

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