On 7-8 November 2017, Deputy Chief of Mission, Political and Public Affairs of the Embassy of Israel to Thailand Mr. Yuval Abraham WAKS visited Mae Fah Luang University to discuss academic cooperation for visiting scholar in the field of Science, Mathematics, and Medicine between Israeli universities and MFU.
Besides, on 8 November, the Embassy of Israel in Thailand cooperated with the Division of Student Development Affairs at MFU to organize the sharing activities which divided into two parts: presentation on innovation and startup of Israel and a film screening.
In first part of the activity, participants knew Israel more as the innovation and startup nation through the presentations that showed how this country developed into the leading country in the fields of innovation and startup business in the past 70 years.
Mr. Yuval highlighted that good human resource was important in development of any given country. He also gave advices on startup business that the significant characteristic of entrepreneur was being themselves. Additionally, entrepreneurs should invented something based on the problems they faced in daily life as well.
Moreover, the film screening “Brave Miss World” grabbed the participants’ attention with its strong message on sexual harassment of women. The movie also encourages victims of sexual assault to speak up and fight for justice. As sexual violence is one of the global concern and rape cases are rarely reported to police, this activity aimed to raise an awareness of sexual harassment.
