Bright ideas are born at eBay’s new Israel Social Center

JANUARY 3, 2013, ..eBay’s hot new social commerce platforms aren’t coming from the giant Internet marketplace’s California headquarters. They’re conceptualized and launched by a team of 14 young Israeli geeks (and Marti, their “inspiration dog”) on Tel Aviv’s yuppified Rothschild Boulevard.

Marti is the first to greet visitors to eBay’s Israel Social Center (ISC), opened in July last year...Right on Marti’s four heels comes Ron Gura, the former Israeli Air Force lieutenant who runs the ISC along with his sister-in-law, Maya Gura, and his Haifa childhood chums Matan Bar and Erez Dickman. (Another partner, Guy Schory, now heads new ventures for eBay Inc.).

.In 2009, the friends had cooked up The Gifts Project to facilitate online group gifting — what Gura calls “a nice mash-up of existing social platforms and payment platforms to bring online what you do anyway offline.” [That's another rabbit hole] .. Following a successful pilot as eBay Group Gifts in the 2010 holiday shopping season, the enterprise was acquired by eBay and morphed into the ISC — a self-contained, offline innovation development center under the purview of eBay VP-social commerce Don Bradford.

Bradford drops by from San José once every quarter, and eBay top banana John Donahoe came in September, declaring that “Israel is one of our industry’s leading hubs for technology innovation and talent.” eBay also owns Netanya-based shopping.com, and its PayPal subsidiary bought Tel Aviv’s Fraud Sciences in 2008.

More about Rothschild Blvd here: http://www.davidbakeronline.com/wireds-tech-cities-tel-aviv/

At the eastern edge of the Mediterranean, stretching 180 kilometres from Haifa in the north to the outskirts of Jerusalem, runs Israel’s “Silicon Wadi”. Centred on Tel Aviv, the strip has produced so many widely adopted high-tech products — from ICQ instant messaging, through wireless-internet technologies to USB memory sticks — it is often seen as the closest international rival to California’s iconic Silicon Valley... At 18, Israeli citizens typically begin two or three years in the Israel Defense Forces. Many end up in the paratroop or tank regiments, but the highest academic achievers are drafted into elite units such as Talpiot and 8200, where they undergo intense training in high technology and coding.

..The army also provides a lifelong network of contacts. “Everyone is three degrees of separation away,” says Yossi Vardi, a venture capitalist who is something of a guru to the country’s high-tech sector. “If you want to get in touch with someone, you’ll know someone who has a friend who was in their unit.

The article goes on to describe 11 companies founded in this location.. one of them is The Gifts Project, another one is Wibiya..

I came across Wibiya when I was researching a woman known as the "madam of Houston" who ran a prostitution ring for the rich and the powerful in Texas. She had several website including one called WAZALA https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3952228/25005604

You can read all about that at the link. Yossi Vardi is one the organizing team for The Israel Conference™. And so is Isabel Maxwell.

For me eBay is synonymous with the Hampstead children: The Hampstead children and Ricky Dearman turn up at the 2017 Ebay Business Awards. Of course the videos have been taken down but one can still find images of Dearman and the children https://twitter.com/jeranism/status/1017603457392361474 . And once again tweetsave will not work for me so I archive here: https://imgur.com/a/2tobTS6

In that thread I also pointed out that the financier of the cult Will Draper went to work for a very exclusive and discrete Swiss Bank (in its London office) Mirabaud Securities which has connections to Marina Abramovic and George Soros : https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2614904/13178277

Anyhoo, back to the Israel Conference

Isabel Maxwell of Israel Venture Network (IVN)

Is it me, or are those pedo swirls in the logo? https://imgur.com/a/hUd1Uc7

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3325529

Maxwell was also Senior Adviser to Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus' not-for-profit microfinance organization Grameen America.

I also touched on the microfinance aspect in this comment on the Wazala website which also connects to Melanie R. Sabelhaus of Small Business Administration (SBA): https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/3955145/25006387 . She is involved with the Red Cross, Save the Children, United Way and the Belizean Grove, a female version of the Bohemian Grove.