Partner: Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow
For young Israelis and Palestinians, the future is often shaped by forces far beyond their control: conflict, separation, fear, inequality, and inherited narratives about the other.
MEET offers a different kind of preparation for the future.
Through a rigorous multi-year program, Israeli and Palestinian teenagers learn computer science, entrepreneurship, leadership, and problem-solving together. They work in mixed teams, build startup projects, explore each other’s narratives, and practice the skills needed to collaborate across cultural and political divides.
The idea is simple and ambitious: young people who learn to build together may one day help lead differently.
What B8 of Hope Supports
B8 of Hope’s General Grant helps sustain MEET’s educational and leadership pipeline.
This support strengthens the spaces where MEET’s model becomes real: intensive summer programming, yearlong learning, retreats, dialogue circles, startup development, graduation milestones, leadership training, and alumni engagement.
MEET’s pathway begins with high school students, ages 15 to 17, who take part in a demanding program combining technology, entrepreneurship, and binational teamwork. It continues after graduation through leadership development, work-readiness opportunities, alumni programming, and social-impact initiatives.
Across this journey, students do not only gain technical skills. They learn how to listen, disagree, solve problems, and create with peers from the other side.
What the Grant Makes Possible
B8 of Hope’s support helps young Israelis and Palestinians keep meeting, learning, and building together year after year.
Each summer, students come together for intensive in-person programming, where they study computer science and entrepreneurship, develop projects, and build relationships that continue through the year. In the yearlong program, they deepen those skills through online sessions, in-person project days, overnight seminars, hackathons, and dialogue work.
Graduation is one visible milestone in a much longer journey. It is the moment when families from both sides sit in one hall and watch their children present startup projects shaped by technological innovation and social vision.
The broader impact is the pipeline itself: teenagers becoming graduates, graduates becoming young leaders, and alumni moving into academia, technology, social impact, and civic life with real experience in binational collaboration.
Why it matters
MEET’s work matters because collaboration is not only an ideal. It is a skill — and young people need places to practice it.
A Palestinian student and an Israeli student working together on a startup project are doing more than completing an assignment. They are learning how to trust, how to communicate, how to build something under pressure, and how to imagine leadership as something shared.
B8 of Hope’s support helps keep that space open. It helps ensure that young Israelis and Palestinians are not only inheriting conflict, but also developing the tools, relationships, and courage to shape something beyond it.
This is the quiet power of General Grants: they sustain the long-term work that allows young people to grow, return, lead, and carry the possibility of a shared future into the places where they will one day have influence.