Join us for dinner with Sam Hoenig founder of the Negev Foundation, and the Ohio Israel Agricultural Initiative. He will be speaking about the OIAI, and how it has helped strengthen the connection between Ohio and Israel.
Sam Hoenig is a founder and President of the Negev Foundation. Sam has over 25 years of experience with foreign and domestic agricultural and land related projects. He has assisted the United Department of Agriculture and Israel's Ministry of Agriculture and coordinated agricultural transfer initiatives between the United States and Israel. Sam has also served as a consultant to the Minister for Agricultural Affairs to North America at the Israel Embassy in Washington. Prior to becoming President of The Negev Foundation in 1995, Mr. Hoenig spent seventeen years as Executive Director of the Jewish National Fund in Ohio. He attended Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Wisconsin. He later went on to University of Southern California, completing two graduate degrees in Business and Administration
